Director of Engineering, Alchemy
Infrastructure & Platform
$300-350k
Offers Equity & Bonus
Web3 development platform
Open for applications
Web3 development platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$300-350k
Offers Equity & Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide developers with the fundamental building blocks they need to create the future of technology.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in distributed systems
- 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing managers and leading orgs responsible for critical production infrastructure at high-growth startup
- Strong hands-on understanding of large-scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructure
- Experience with Java, K8s, AWS, multi-region, multi-cloud is strongly preferred
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills
- Exceptional judgment and decision-making skills, especially when balancing speed, quality, and long-term technical health
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and engage with the open-source community
- Strong ownership mindset; comfortable operating with ambiguity and driving initiatives end-to-end
- Ability to balance perfection with pragmatism and ship impactful solutions quickly
- Passion for building platforms that enable others and curiosity about emerging technologies—crypto, AI, and complex systems
What the job involves
- As Director of Engineering, Infrastructure & Platform, you will own the vision, strategy, and execution of one of the most sophisticated, high-throughput distributed systems in the blockchain ecosystem
- You’ll lead multiple teams responsible for the core platform that powers Alchemy’s products, where reliability, performance, and cost efficiency at massive scale are mission-critical
- In this role, you will set the long-term technical direction for platform infrastructure, partner closely with Product and Executive Leadership, and ensure Alchemy continues to operate at the frontier of Web3 infrastructure. Your work will enable developers to move faster with confidence and help unlock blockchain adoption for the next billion users
- Lead and scale multiple engineering teams across Cloud Infrastructure, Platform, Data Platform, and Internal Tooling, including distributed and international teams
- Define and own the platform and infrastructure strategy, ensuring scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across the organization
- Serve as a senior technical leader, influencing architecture and systems design for large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems
- Partner with Product, Security, Finance, and Executive Leadership to align platform investments with company goals and customer needs
- Drive execution excellence by evolving processes, setting clear priorities, and ensuring predictable delivery as the organization scales
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies and ecosystem trends (Web3, cloud infrastructure, AI) and translate them into actionable technical strategy
- Build, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering leaders and ICs; provide coaching that raises the technical bar across teams
- Own hiring strategy and workforce planning for the org, recruiting top-tier talent and developing future leaders
- Shape and strengthen Alchemy’s engineering culture through standards, mentorship, and programs that promote continuous learning and innovation
Our take
Blockchain technology is a rapidly growing industry with many startups and established companies developing new applications that utilize it. However, many companies reinvent the wheel as they each attempt to build their own version of the blockchain software.
Alchemy offers a platform that simplifies the creation of blockchains and the launching of new nodes. It provides developers with “building blocks” that can be used to make the process more efficient. Alchemy is working with multinational organizations like Meta, Adobe, and Splunk, and it has won many clients from their current top competitor, Infura.
The company has seen considerable growth and is now acquiring companies to improve its stack. It now serves over 10 million end users and became a unicorn after attracting impressive funding in 2022. It continues to refine its platform to gain competitive edge, for example launching a transaction simulation product to help reduce the chances of transactions becoming susceptible to scams.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
64% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2022
$200m
SERIES C
Oct 2021
$250m
SERIES C
Total funding: $545m
Company benefits
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- HSA
- Flexible time off
- Group meals
- 401k plan
- Company retreats
- Conferences and events
- Gym membership
- Commuting benefits
- Relocation bonus
- Paid parental leave
- Home office stipend
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Nikil Viswanathan
(Co-Founder & CEO)After studying Computer Science at Stanford, Nikil co-founded Down to Lunch in 2016, serving as CEO. Left this role in 2017 to co-found Alchemy.
Joseph Lau
(Co-Founder & President)Also co-founded Down to Lunch. Previously Software Engineer at Pinterest, Head Teaching Assistant at Stanford University, and Associate Technology Manager Intern at Google.
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