Job Description

Our client is building the fundamental developer platform to bring the benefits of blockchain to the world. Today, they are, the leading blockchain developer platform, powers over $7.5 billion in transactions for millions of people in 99% of countries globally. Their mission is to provide developers with the fundamental building blocks they need to create the future of technology. They are wanting to grow from 25 employees to closer to 80 employees this year in 2021! 

Our client's team draws from decades of deep expertise in massively scalable infrastructure, AI, and blockchain from leading institutions including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Stanford, and MIT.

Backed by Stanford University, Coinbase, the Chairman of Google, Charles Schwab, and the executives of global organizations. Alchemy has been featured in Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Wired, and numerous other media outlets.

 THE OPPORTUNITY Our client is building out distributed protocols to augment our developer platform. As one of our first smart contract engineers, you will be both architecting and building those protocols. 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.

 RESPONSIBILITIES

• Architecture and design of distributed protocols with an emphasis on security and scalability
• Write and deploy Smart Contracts and maintain them in production
• Design and build our automated Smart Contract test framework
• Develop and own best practices for distributed protocol upgrades and versioning
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and design on the user-facing applications built around our smart contract protocols

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• 6+ years of relevant industry experience
• 2+ years of smart contract development including production deployments
• BS/BA in Computer Science
• Extreme proficiency with Solidity and EVM based blockchains
• Experience designing distributed protocols
• Experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining high traffic smart contracts
• Ability to balance shipping quickly with building stable infrastructure.