Computer Science Jobs at Alchemy

Our mission is to bring blockchain to a billion people. The Alchemy Platform is a world class developer platform designed to make building on the blockchain easy. We've built leading infrastructure in the space, powering over $45 billion in transactions for tens of millions of users in 99% of countries worldwide.

The Alchemy team draws from decades of deep expertise in massively scalable infrastructure, AI, and blockchain from leadership roles at leading companies and universities like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Stanford, and MIT.

Alchemy recently raised a Series C led by a16z at a $3.5B valuation, having previously raised from Coatue, Addition, Stanford University, Coinbase, the Chairman of Google, Charles Schwab, and the founders and executives of leading organizations.

Alchemy powers the top blockchain companies globally and has been featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, Bloomberg, and elsewhere.

The Role

Alchemy is building out distributed protocols to augment our developer platform. As one of our first smart contract engineers you will be both architecting and building those protocols. You'll be responsible for bringing the same level of security, speed, and stability as our existing platform to our distributed efforts. As they augment our existing developer platform, the contracts you build will quickly become a platform for thousands of teams and millions of users globally.

Responsibilities

• Architecture and design of distributed protocols with an emphasis on security and scalability
• Write and deploy Smart Contracts and maintain them in production
• Design and build our automated Smart Contract test framework
• Develop and own best practices for distributed protocol upgrades and versioning
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and design on the user-facing applications built around our smart contract protocols

What We're Looking For

• 6+ years of relevant industry experience
• 2+ years of smart contract development including production deployments
• BS/BA in Computer Science
• Extreme proficiency with Solidity and EVM based blockchains
• Experience designing distributed protocols
• Experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining high traffic smart contracts
• Ability to balance shipping quickly with building stable infrastructure

Alchemy focuses on Enterprise Software, Developer APIs, Technology, Developer Tools, and Cloud Infrastructure. Their company has offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Remote. They have a small team that's between 11-50 employees. To date, Alchemy has raised $95M of funding; their latest round was closed on April 2021 at a valuation of $505M.

You can view their website at https://alchemy.com or find them on Twitter and LinkedIn.