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Protocol Engineer New York

Alchemy, New York, NY, United States


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.

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