Protocol Engineer

The Role

Alchemy is building out distributed protocols to augment our developer platform. 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 $135000 - $350000 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.

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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