Senior Full Stack Engineer (Wallet Services)

Alchemy Insights

Alchemy Insights

Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Saturday, May 11, 2024
Our mission is to bring blockchain to a billion people. The Alchemy Platform is a world class developer platform designed to make building on the blockchain easy. We've built leading infrastructure in the space, powering over $105 billion in transactions for tens of millions of users in 99% of countries worldwide.
The Alchemy team draws from decades of deep expertise in massively scalable infrastructure, AI, and blockchain from leadership roles at leading companies and universities like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Stanford, and MIT.
Alchemy recently raised a Series C1 at a $10.2B valuation led by Lightspeed and Silver Lake. Previously, Alchemy raised from a16z, Coatue, Addition, Stanford University, Coinbase, the Chairman of Google, Charles Schwab, and the founders and executives of leading organizations.
Alchemy powers the top blockchain companies globally and has been featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, Bloomberg, and elsewhere.

The Role

Our team mission is to enable developers to bring mainstream users on-chain with simple, secure, and self-sovereign web3 accounts. We’re building next-gen wallets with Account Abstraction (ERC-4337) that radically simplify the traditional wallet experience for mainstream users.

As a full stack engineer on the team, you’ll work on high-impact, user-facing products, and be responsible for building new libraries to drive that mission. You’ll also contribute to our team culture, open source code base, and developer docs as we scale our team and the AA ecosystem.

The work you do will be the first thing users see, developers use, and define account experiences for users, developers, and the biggest companies in the space.

This role has a dual inside/outside charter of not only engineering Alchemy products, but also developing the broader EVM ecosystem. You will contribute to team roadmap planning, engaging with the ecosystem through open-source contributions, standards development, and strategic partnerships.

Given a lot our work is open source you can learn a bit of what we've been up to in the public domain here:

If you possess strong product and technical acumen, harbor a profound enthusiasm for blockchain technology, and desire to make a meaningful impact on the decentralized web, we can not wait to hear from you.

What You'll Do:

  • Define and own the end-to-end development of user-facing features for blockchain developers
  • Build new tools for debugging blockchain apps on the web
  • Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
  • Uphold best practices around code quality, strong typing and API design
  • Collaborate with teammates working on design, growth and blockchain infrastructure
  • Designing tools that blockchain developers will use to dive into their smart contracts, on-chain transactions and API calls
  • Building onboarding features that help developers new to the blockchain successfully build and launch their first application
  • Launching exciting new blockchains and bringing their unique features into the web platform

What We're Looking For:

  • We are hiring at the mid, senior, and staff level all with exciting internal and ecosystem level ownership opportunities.
  • Experience owning, shipping, and iterating on user-facing products and web applications with large user bases
  • Pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems
  • The ability to stitch together many different services and processes together even if they have not worked with them before
  • Self-starter attitude and the ability to execute new ideas with autonomy
  • Ability to find the right balance between perfection and shipping quickly
  • Proficiency with TypeScript, React (or equivalent), NodeJS and the tooling supporting a modern web development stack
  • Production Native Mobile and React Native Experience, a plus
  • Web3 experience, a plus
  • Founded a company or built side projects, a plus
  • Experience in startups, a plus

More on The Role

Alchemy is committed to offering competitive compensation, including base salary as well as equity. Additionally, Alchemy offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as other benefits such as 401k and unlimited flexible time off.

The base salary range for this position is estimated to be between $135,000 - $350,000 annually. Please note this range reflects base salary only, and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Your salary will be determined by various factors, including relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business needs.