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Senior Software Engineer, Data Services

Alchemy · San Francisco · Remote

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About Alchemy

Backed by Lightspeed.

About the role

Build the systems that turn blockchain activity into data developers can use. Alchemy’s Data Services work includes token, portfolio, and transfer APIs, with streaming in the updated roadmap. You will own backend projects from ingestion through serving, making data correct, fresh, and fast to query. You will work with Product and customer-facing teams to understand what developers need, then ship improvements and measure their effect on reliability, performance, and cost. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • A track record of independently designing, shipping, and operating production backend or distributed data systems
  • Strong programming skills in a production backend language, plus experience with databases, indexing, and query performance
  • Experience reasoning about consistency, partitioning, asynchronous processing, and failure recovery
  • Evidence that you can diagnose a production problem and improve the system beyond the immediate fix
  • Sound API design judgment, including compatibility, pagination, error handling, and data contracts
  • Clear communication and the ability to turn an ambiguous customer problem into a scoped engineering project
More about this role

Alchemy is the Web3 infrastructure and developer platform that powers millions of users and the world’s most innovative blockchain applications. From enabling $1+ trillion in financial transactions worldwide to scaling L2s and enabling DeFi, Alchemy provides the infrastructure and tools developers need to build reliable, scalable, and accessible experiences.

Trusted by companies like JPMorgan, Stripe, Visa, Franklin Templeton, Nike, and backed by a16z, Coatue, Silver Lake, Lightspeed, and Stanford University, Alchemy is building the foundational layer for a decentralized and AI-enabled Web3 ecosystem. For more information, visit alchemy.com .

Build the systems that turn blockchain activity into data developers can use. Alchemy’s Data Services work includes token, portfolio, and transfer APIs, with streaming in the updated roadmap.

You will own backend projects from ingestion through serving, making data correct, fresh, and fast to query. You will work with Product and customer-facing teams to understand what developers need, then ship improvements and measure their effect on reliability, performance, and cost.

Build and operate blockchain ingestion, indexing, storage, and...

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