Smart Contract Engineer

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Blockchain • Information Technology • Software • Cryptocurrency • Web3
Enabling the next great shift in technology.
The Role
As a Smart Contract Engineer, you'll architect and build distributed protocols for a developer platform, focusing on security, performance, and scalability. Responsibilities include writing and maintaining smart contracts, ensuring best practices for protocol upgrades, and mentoring other engineers in Solidity and EVM. Close collaboration with engineering and product teams is essential.
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Our mission is to bring web3 to a billion people, by providing builders with the tools they need to build exceptional onchain products. Alchemy is the only complete developer platform that offers the powerful APIs, SDKs, and tools necessary to build and scale onchain apps and rollups.

Our infrastructure powers 70% of the top web3 teams, 90%+ of web2 companies building in web3 and 100+ million end users. Our customers include top web3 brands like Polymarket, OpenSea, Circle, WorldCoin, as well as major global brands like Shopify and Adobe.

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.

We're backed by the world's leading VCs and institutions, including: Lightspeed, Silver Lake, a16z, Coatue, Pantera, Addition, Stanford University, Coinbase, and Charles Schwab, among others.

The Role

Alchemy is building out distributed protocols to augment our developer platform. As one of our first smart contract engineers you will be architecting and building those protocols, and setting the bar for highly readable, optimized, and secure code backed by a comprehensive test suite. You'll be responsible for bringing the same level of security, speed, and stability as our existing platform to our distributed efforts. As they augment our existing developer platform, the contracts you build will quickly become a platform for thousands of teams and millions of users globally.

What You'll Do:

  • Architecture and design of distributed protocols with an emphasis on security, performance, and scalability
  • Write, deploy, and test smart contracts and maintain them in production
  • Develop and own best practices for protocol upgrades and versioning across different networks
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and design on the user-facing applications built around our smart contract protocols
  • Mentor other engineers in in-depth Solidity/EVM topics and best practices
  • Stay up to date with the latest Solidity releases, developer tooling, and exploits

What We're Looking For:

  • 6+ years of relevant industry experience
  • 2+ years of smart contract development including production deployments of original, non-trivial protocols and related security audits
  • BS/BA in Computer Science
  • Extreme proficiency with Solidity and the EVM
  • Experience designing distributed protocols
  • Experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining high traffic smart contracts
  • Experience building and managing a protocol with significant TVL is a plus
  • Ability to balance shipping quickly with building stable infrastructure
  • Experience working with startups
  • Passion for blockchain technologies and Web3
  • A hustler mentality, founding a company or building side projects is 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.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
200 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Alchemy powers the top blockchain companies globally and has been featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, Bloomberg, and elsewhere.

Our mission is to bring web3 to a billion people, by providing builders with the tools they need to build exceptional onchain products. Alchemy is the only complete developer platform that offers the powerful APIs, SDKs, and tools necessary to build and scale onchain apps and rollups. Our infrastructure powers 70% of the top web3 teams, 90%+ of web2 companies building in web3 and 100+ million end users. Our customers include top web3 brands like Polymarket, OpenSea, Circle, WorldCoin, as well as major global brands like Shopify and Adobe.

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.

We're backed by the world's leading VCs and institutions, including Lightspeed, Silver Lake, a16z, Coatue, Pantera, Addition, Stanford University, Coinbase, and Charles Schwab, among others.

Why Work With Us

Alchemy is on the cutting edge of web3, working to bring the life-changing potential of this technology to everyone. By thinking big and moving fast, we’re tackling the challenges of innovation and creating a future with massive global impact.

Working it Alchemy is a chance to learn and grow in ways you've never even imagined. It’s an opportunity

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Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

At Alchemy, we thrive on the energy of being in-person, where stronger connections and more fun fuel our creativity and culture! Working together in the same space lets us move faster, achieve more, and make every day an exciting adventure.

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HQSan Francisco, CA
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