Backend Engineer (General)
Alchemy
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Posted:
March 20, 2023
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Remote
About the position
The Alchemy Platform is seeking a backend systems engineer to work on architecting and building new systems as well as improving existing ones for a platform that supports millions of users globally. The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of relevant industry experience, a BS/BA degree in Computer Science, and experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining core backend software components. They should also have the ability to solve complex design, scaling, latency, or performance problems in high-throughput, low-latency systems, and experience with production distributed systems, web applications, and microservice architecture. Web3 experience, founding a company or building side projects, and experience in startups are all pluses.
Responsibilities
- Own the end to end product lifecycle of identifying, designing, and building new features
- Contribute and lead backend design discussions, stand up meetings, and code reviews
- Develop and own best practices for backend application development with a focus on high throughput, high reliability, and low latency
- Identify opportunities to improve existing practices and uphold Alchemy's high technical quality bar
- Write stable, high coverage test cases for features you ship
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Collaborate with other engineers, PMs, and designers
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience
- BS/BA degree in Computer Science
- Experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining core backend software components (experience with API platforms a plus)
- Ability to solve complex design, scaling, latency, or performance problems in high-throughput, low-latency systems
- Experience with AWS technologies is a plus
- Experience with production distributed systems, web applications, and microservice architecture
- Experience developing with Java (Micronauts), Typescript (Node), and/or Python (Django)
- Proven track record building highly available and highly scalable systems
- Self-starter attitude and the ability to execute new ideas with autonomy
- Know how to find the right balance between perfection and shipping quickly
- Web3 experience, a plus
- Founded a company or built side projects, a plus
- Experience in startups, a plus
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Alchemy
Alchemy is a developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications.
Company Overview
Alchemy is a developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications.
Benefits
- Strong desire to work in sales at an early-stage startup
- You live inside Discord 24/7
- 6+ years experience with outbound and client-facing sales positioning crypto-focused companies
- Ability to operate independently and proactively in an effort to source and progress new business
- Excellent listening, verbal, and written communication skills
- Capable of understanding customer pain points, requirements and correlating potential business to value that can be provided by technical services
- Successful track record in B2B sales and negotiation
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience in sales techniques
- Proficiency in data analysis, forecasting, and budgeting
Nice to have:
- Web3 experience
- Founded a company or built side projects
- Experience in startups
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