Staff Software Engineer, Alchemy
Frontend Platform
$210-260k
+ Equity
Blockchain development platform
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Blockchain development platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$210-260k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide developers with the fundamental building blocks they need to create the future of technology without the hassle of managing blockchain infrastructure in-house.
Role
Who you are
- You’re excited about where Web3 could go next, and you can translate that excitement into technical vision and practical frontend architectures
- You have strong opinions about good developer tools and frameworks, and you can guide a team toward building maintainable, scalable frontend systems
- You ship high-quality products, set the bar for engineering excellence, and foster a culture of continuous feedback by listening to users and iterating quickly
- You have 8+ years of industry experience, with at least 3+ years leading frontend teams or projects—preferably in scrappy, high-growth startup environments as a founder, tech lead, or early hire
- You have a BS/BA in Computer Science (or equivalent practical experience)
- You’re proficient with JavaScript/TypeScript, have deep expertise in modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js), and an expert-level command of CSS (Tailwind experience is a plus)
- You have a proven track record of designing component libraries, establishing coding standards, and driving architectural decisions that balance speed and scalability
- You’re comfortable owning the end-to-end frontend experience, from performance optimization and accessibility to CI/CD pipelines and testing strategies
What the job involves
- Developers use Alchemy to build incredible apps on the blockchain that operate at enormous scale. All of our customers’ first experience is our web dashboard, where they use Alchemy to launch, debug and monitor their apps. As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you’ll be building the user-facing features that are critical to our customers success while also defining the internal standards and tooling that empower our own engineers with a great development experience
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, performant, and reliable frontend infrastructure, component libraries, and client-side services
- Lead stand-up meetings, and code reviews focused on frontend architecture and performance
- Develop and enforce best practices for frontend infrastructure, emphasizing high performance, accessibility, and iteration speed
- Collaborate with backend engineers, technical leaders, product managers, and designers to deliver cohesive, end-to-end solutions
- Define the vision for the the SDK (across a wide range of platforms and features) that enables our customers to connect to onchain rails and experiences
- Drive adoption of modern frontend tooling, frameworks, and practices to enhance developer experience and user satisfaction
- Champion best practices around code quality, type safety, and API design keeping developer ergonomics in mind
- Evangelize for developer experience to other product teams and help them build beautiful, intuitive experiences
- Develop roadmap planning and open-source ecosystem projects
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 already 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 10M end users and became a deca unicorn after attracting impressive funding in 2022. It continues to refine its platform to gain competitive edge, recently launching a transaction simulation product to help reduce the chances of transactions becoming susceptible to scams.
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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
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Nikil Viswanathan
(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
(CTO)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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