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# Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience at Alchemy

- **Company:** Alchemy
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/alchemy/fd8debdc-fc1f-4f37-95f5-75f6b62b5798

## Job description

## About Alchemy

Alchemy is the Web3 infrastructure and developer platform that powers millions of users and the world’s most innovative blockchain applications. From enabling $1+ trillion in financial transactions worldwide to scaling L2s and enabling DeFi, Alchemy provides the infrastructure and tools developers need to build reliable, scalable, and accessible experiences. Trusted by companies like JPMorgan, Stripe, Visa, Franklin Templeton, Nike, and backed by a16z, Coatue, Silver Lake, Lightspeed, and Stanford University, Alchemy is building the foundational layer for a decentralized and AI-enabled Web3 ecosystem. For more information, visit [alchemy.com](http://alchemy.com).

## The Role

We are hiring a software engineer on the Developer Experience team. You will own projects from the first problem statement through production, and measure whether they worked. The team owns how developers discover, adopt, and operate Alchemy: the dashboard, APIs, SDKs, CLI, and MCP server that sit between our infrastructure and the people building on it. A growing share of those users are coding agents, so we design for both. Recent work spans enterprise controls, management APIs, developer observability, onboarding, and self-serve growth. Ahead of us is the shift to agents that discover tools, write code, pay for services with x402, and operate onchain infrastructure on their own. Our stack: TypeScript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Temporal, Kafka, AWS, and Kubernetes.

## What You Will Work On

- Agent-native developer tools: our CLI, SDKs, MCP server, x402 payments, and Agent Wallets.
- Enterprise capabilities for teams running production traffic: organizations, roles, SSO, key management, audit history, and spend controls.
- Public and management APIs for usage, billing, apps, and teams, used by developers, internal tools, and coding agents.
- Developer observability and product quality: usage analytics, request logs, alerts, and the reliability of the surfaces developers use every day.

## What You Will Do

- Own projects from problem definition through design, launch, measurement, and on-call.
- Design APIs with clear versioning, error handling, safe defaults, and backwards compatibility.
- Build data models and services that stay correct and reliable as traffic and customer needs grow, with security built in for users, agents, and services.
- Build the user-facing side of your features across our dashboard, CLI, and SDKs, so developers and coding agents can discover and use them safely.
- Instrument what you ship. Use activation, adoption, and conversion data, plus direct developer feedback, to decide what to build next.
- Write design docs, runbooks, and developer-facing documentation. Review code and technical designs to keep quality high.
- Work with Product, Billing, Security, Growth, and other engineering teams.

What Success Looks Like At six months, you have:

- Execution: Scoped, designed and shipped a project across our APIs, backend services, and dashboard or CLI, and paying customers use it in production.
- Ownership: Joined on-call and handled incidents in your area without escalating. Your launches ship with alerts, a runbook and a rollback plan.
- Impact: Moved a number you can name, such as feature adoption, free-to-paid upgrades, time to first API call, or support tickets.
- Team: Earned the team’s trust by making sound technical decisions, collaborating across functions, and improving code and design quality.
- Direction: Proposed what the team should build next, backed by usage data and conversations with developers.

Helpful Experience

- Blockchain experience is helpful, not required.
- Developer platforms, API products, cloud consoles, or enterprise developer tools, including SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, agent tools, or machine-readable documentation.
- Billing, metering, or pricing systems.
- Temporal or another workflow orchestration system, plus caching and analytical data systems.
- Observability, incident response, and performance optimization.
- Blockchain products or developer tools, or agent payment and identity standards such as x402.
- Open source contributions, talks, or technical writing.

## Benefits & Perks

🏥 Private Health Insurance 💪 Gym Reimbursement 🚅 Commuter Benefits 🌴 Flexible Time Off 🥙 In-Office Group Meals 🧠 Learning & Development Stipend 🌎 Company Sponsored Conferences & Events 🎧 Books & Audiobook subscription with [Bookster](https://landing.bookster.ro/)

## About Alchemy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Alchemy is the leading web3 development platform providing the infrastructure, APIs, and tools developers need to build and scale blockchain applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C1 at $10.2B valuation, Feb 2022)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (also offices in New York and Bucharest)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Nikil Viswanathan (CEO) and Joseph Lau (President)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Blockchain infrastructure / Web3 developer platform
- **Target Customers**: B2B – developers, fintechs, enterprises, and blockchain-native companies (e.g., JP Morgan, Robinhood, Visa, Stripe, Polymarket)
- **Mission/Purpose**: “To bring blockchain to a billion people” by providing the foundational building blocks for creating the future of technology [alchemy.com/company](https://www.alchemy.com/company)

## Products & Services
- **Node RPC API**: Real-time, block-perfect data access to major blockchain networks (Ethereum, Solana, etc.) with 99.99% uptime, powered by the Cortex engine (13x more throughput, 5x more reliability).
- **Rollups**: Launch a custom, high-performance blockchain (Layer 2/rollup-as-a-service) for scaling applications.
- **Data APIs**:
  - *Token APIs* – Real-time price data for any token.
  - *Portfolio APIs* – Query transaction history and asset balances.
  - *Webhooks* – Stream push notifications for on-chain events.
- **AI Agents Tooling**: CLI, MCP server, and skills enabling AI agents to read onchain state, send transactions, and ship apps end‑to‑end.
- **Move Money**: Swap, mint, and stake with no gas fees or multi-step approvals (smart wallet & gasless transactions).

All products are delivered as SaaS/API services, targeting both backend and frontend developers. [alchemy.com](https://www.alchemy.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $10.2 billion (Series C1, February 2022 – TechCrunch)
- **Key Metric**: Over $105 billion in total transaction volume processed; serving tens of millions of users across 197+ countries (99% of countries worldwide). The platform also reports $1T+ in annual transaction volume and over 100M transactions annually.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed, Silver Lake, a16z, Coatue, Addition, Stanford University, Coinbase, the Chairman of Google, Charles Schwab, and founders/executives of leading organizations.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Expanding into AI agents with dedicated tooling.
  - Building Cortex, the blockchain engine that claims 13x throughput improvement.
  - Continued hiring across engineering, sales, and design roles (17+ open positions in mid‑2026).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Developer Experience**: “Dead simple” APIs and SDKs that eliminate blockchain complexity – developers can be production‑ready in minutes.
- **Scale & Reliability**: 99.99% uptime, $105 billion+ processed, trusted by top financial institutions and fintechs.
- **Cortex Engine**: Proprietary infrastructure layer delivering 13x more throughput and 5x more reliability than competitors.
- **Comprehensive Platform**: Single integrated suite for node access, data indexing, AI agents, and payment rails – unlike point solutions.
- **Talent & Team**: Leadership from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Stanford, and MIT; deep expertise in massively scalable infrastructure.

## Strategic Focus
- **Onboard a Billion Users**: Continue lowering barriers to blockchain adoption, particularly in fintech and financial services.
- **AI + Blockchain**: Enable AI agents to seamlessly interact with on‑chain data and transactions.
- **Enterprise Adoption**: Work with global institutions on next‑generation payment and settlement rails (focus area of President Joe Lau).
- **Global Scaling**: Offices in San Francisco, New York, and Bucharest to attract top talent across time zones.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Think Big. Move Fast. Own It.” – extreme ownership, customer obsession, fast execution, play to win, and a “kid at heart” spirit. [alchemy.com/careers](https://www.alchemy.com/careers)
- **Values**: Extreme ownership, customer obsession, speed, winning mindset, and crypto enthusiasm.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid/office‑based roles in San Francisco, New York, and Bucharest. Some roles appear to be on‑site with flexibility mentioned for commuting benefits.
- **Benefits & Perks** (as listed on careers page):
  - Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  - HSA & FSA plans
  - 401k plan
  - Flexible time off
  - Gym reimbursement & wellbeing perks
  - Home office build‑out budget & commuting benefits
  - Relocation bonus
  - Paid parental leave
  - Learning & development stipend
  - Company retreats (yearly offsites including Chesapeake Bay, Deer Valley, Austin, Cabo, Napa, New York, Playa del Carmen)
  - Conferences and events
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on solving complex problems in distributed systems, AI, and infrastructure; teams are lean and empowered.
- **Growth Opportunity**: High‑leverage roles in a well‑funded, high‑growth company at the intersection of blockchain and AI.

## Sources
1. [alchemy.com](https://www.alchemy.com/) – Product overview, platform features, and value proposition.
2. [alchemy.com/company](https://www.alchemy.com/company) – Mission, founders, and investor information.
3. [alchemy.com/careers](https://www.alchemy.com/careers) – Culture, values, benefits, and open roles.
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/alchemy](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/alchemy) – Job descriptions (Technical Recruiter, Revenue Operations Lead) with details on mission, transaction volume, and investor list (citing TechCrunch).
5. [linkedin.com/company/alchemyinc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/alchemyinc) – Company page with employee count and location data.

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