Senior Blockchain Engineer Moonshot

Alchemy provides blockchain development infrastructure that simplifies building and scaling decentralized applications.

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Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026

United States
About Alchemy

Alchemy enables developers to build reliable blockchain applications through a comprehensive platform offering node infrastructure, enhanced APIs, and developer tools. The platform connects applications to blockchain networks with high reliability and performance, while reducing the complexity of managing blockchain infrastructure in-house.

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About the Role

You will take ambiguous blockchain infrastructure and product ideas from initial experiments through production delivery. You will define hypotheses, prototype across relevant system layers, evaluate technical and operational viability, and support the systems you launch.

Requirements

  • Blockchain
  • Backend engineering
  • Distributed systems
  • Protocol specifications
  • Experiment design
  • Performance benchmarking
  • Profiling
  • Security
  • Product judgment
  • Documentation

Responsibilities

  • Identify developer and infrastructure problems for potential blockchain products
  • Define experiment hypotheses, success criteria, constraints, and time limits
  • Prototype blockchain clients, RPC, indexing, transaction infrastructure, backend services, and smart contracts
  • Test protocol and implementation assumptions with reproducible benchmarks and failure cases
  • Evaluate technical feasibility, security, operating cost, and operational value
  • Design, test, roll out, and document validated production systems
  • Write recommendations based on experiment results
  • Maintain monitoring, runbooks, fixes, and incident response for shipped systems

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Bonus
  • Private Health Insurance
  • Gym Reimbursement
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Flexible Time Off
  • In-Office Group Meals
  • Learning & Development Stipend
  • Company Sponsored Conferences & Events
  • Books and audiobook subscription with Bookster