SDK Engineer (Server)
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**SDK Engineer (Server)**

San Francisco, New York, and Remote / Engineering - SDK / Full-time 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 $30 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 led by Coatue and Addition, having previously raised from Stanford University, Coinbase, the Chairman of Google, Charles Schwab, and the of leading organizations.

Alchemy powers the top blockchain companies globally and has been featured in , , , and .

The Role To accomplish our mission of bringing blockchain to a billion people, we're going to need sleek, accessible Alchemy SDKs to jumpstart server development. As Alchemy's first backend SDK hire, you'll own the Alchemy Server SDK and add features to unlock blockchain markets across the whole world. **Responsibilities**

+ Design, build, and own the Alchemy Server SDK and example applications to provide a best-in-class experience for customers worldwide

+ Build powerful features and wrappers to maximize the most out of Alchemy's supercharged APIs

+ Develop and own best practices for backend library development with a focus on user experience, reliability, and latency

+ Identify opportunities to improve existing practices and uphold Alchemy's high technical quality bar

+ Write stable, high coverage test cases for features you ship

+ Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

+ Collaborate with other engineers, PMs, and designers to unlock Alchemy for mobile users

**What We're Looking For**

+ 5+ years of experience of backend development, preferably with experience developing in other areas of the stack

+ Expertise writing production code in Java, Python, or Go

+ Experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining core software components (experience with API platforms a plus)

+ Experience publishing and distributing software packages

+ Experience in developing libraries and SDKs as opposed to UIs

+ Proven track record building highly available and highly scalable systems

+ Self-starter attitude and the ability to execute new ideas with autonomy

+ Know how to find the right balance between perfection and shipping quickly

+ Passion for blockchain technologies a plus