engineering
Posted Sep 25, 2025Principal Software Engineer, Backend
at Alchemy
Bucharest, RomaniaRemote
Requirements
- As an engineer focused on infrastructure and backend systems at Alchemy, you'll be working with one of the most sophisticated and high-throughput distributed systems in the blockchain world.
- experience - BS/BA degree in Computer Science or equivalent -
- Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining core backend software components (experience with API platforms a plus) - Ability to solve complex design, scaling, latency, or performance problems in high-throughput, low-latency systems in production - Production
- experience with Java, Golang, or C++ -
- Experience in Cloud Native environments, particularly in AWS -
- Experience with managed Kubernetes layers like AWS EKS a plus - Self-starter attitude and the ability to execute new ideas with autonomy - Know how to find the right balance between perfection and shipping quickly - Curiosity on the leading edge - plays with crypto, the latest in AI, and pushes to unpack black boxes
Benefits
- What You'll Do: - Define the vision for the backend infrastructure that supports our developer platform and APIs, and guide the team in executing against that vision - Design, build and maintain highly scalable and reliable infrastructure, APIs, and services - Contribute and lead system design discussions, stand-up meetings, and code reviews - Develop and own best practices for backend infrastructure with a focus on high throughput, high reliability, and low latency - Debug production issues across
Additional details
- The Role Infrastructure is our bread and butter at Alchemy.
- You'll focus on architecting and building new systems as well as improving existing ones for a platform that supports millions of users globally.