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
World-class engineering powers our product offering at Alchemy. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll be responsible for leading engineering teams both technically and culturally as we continue to scale our company.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute and lead high-level system architecture discussions and help decide the trajectory of the engineering organization
- Participate as a key stakeholder of OKR planning across the org
- Help define the engineering culture at Alchemy through leadership, mentorship, and programs that promote learning and growth
- Manage a team of high-performing engineers and managers
- Grow the engineers on your team to advance their careers at Alchemy
- Collaborate cross-functionally with leadership across the whole company
- Build, deliver, and grow strategic new developer business
What We're Looking For:
- 7+ years of relevant industry experience
- Must have expert-level experience with distributed systems, indexing, streaming, web applications, and microservices in production
- Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining core backend software components (experience with API platforms a plus)
- Proven ability to solve complex design, scaling, latency, or performance problems in high-throughput, low-latency systems
- Prior experience as an IC software engineer prior to entering management
- Prior experience as an engineering manager that has led teams at scale
- Prior experience as a manager of managers
- Experience building a new product to market
- Experience as an engineering manager at a high-growth startup
- Proven track record building high-performing teams
- Self-starter attitude and the ability to execute new ideas with autonomy
- A hustler mentality, founding a company, or building side projects is a plus!
