Senior Engineering Manager, Alchemy
Infrastructure & Platform
$240-330k
Offers equity
Web3 development platform
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Web3 development platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$240-330k
Offers equity
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
- 7+ years of experience in software development, with a preferred focus on distributed systems
- 4+ years in engineering management; proven success in building and leading backend teams for critical production infrastructure at a high-growth startup
- Expertise in engineering and maintaining large scale distributed systems
- Experience with Java, K8s, AWS, multi-region, multi-cloud is strongly preferred
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and engage with the open-source community
- Passion for and curiosity around creating innovative solutions that cater to the needs of the next billion users in the blockchain ecosystem
- Self-starter attitude and the ability to execute new ideas with autonomy
- Know how to find the right balance between perfection and shipping quickly
- Curiosity on the leading edge - plays with crypto, the latest in AI, and pushes to unpack black boxes
What the job involves
- As the Sr Eng Manager for Infra and Platform, you will be leading teams to build and scale one of the most sophisticated and high-throughput distributed systems in the blockchain world
- Reliability and high performance at scale are critical to our users, and ultimately the billions of people that will benefit from blockchains
- Your work will focus on delivering industry-leading platform infrastructure that ensures low latency, high reliability, and cost efficiency, enabling developers to move fast with confidence
- Collaborating with product managers and leadership, you’ll shape backend platform strategy to drive Alchemy’s mission of accelerating Web3 development
- You'll lead several teams ranging from Cloud infrastructure to Platform, Data Engineering, and Internal Tooling
- Oversee technical and platform strategies that everyone at Alchemy can build upon to deliver exceptional products and services
- Stay updated on the bleeding edge of technological and ecosystem advancements to drive technical strategies, keeps Alchemy at the edge of competition; effectively communicate concepts and progress
- Enhance execution, mentor the team, and refine processes as the team scales. Provide technical mentorship to ensure high-quality standards
- Foster team growth by actively recruiting and hiring top-tier engineers
- Influence Alchemy's overall engineering culture through leadership, mentorship, and programs promoting continuous learning and development
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 10M end users and became a 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
- 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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