Software Engineer (Backend) - Distributed Systems

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Hybrid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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2 days From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Series C From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Software Engineer (Backend) - Distributed Systems San Francisco | Hybrid | New York | Remote About The Role As a Software Engineer at Alchemy, you'll be focused on building one of the most sophisticated and high-throughout distributed systems that power the global backbone powering billions of users in Web3. It's a unique opportunity combining the most challenging engineering problems, crypto-forward exposure, and direct customer impact. What You'll Do - To help define the vision for the backend infrastructure that supports our team's product pillar and guide the team in executing against that vision - Design, build, and maintain highly scalable and reliable infrastructure, APIs, and services - Contribute to and participate in 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 services and multiple levels of the stack - Collaborate with other technical and non-technical stakeholders to identify business priorities, define the team roadmap, and act on them What We're Looking For - 8+ years of relevant industry 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, C++ or similar - Experience in Cloud Native environments, particularly in AWS - Experience with managed Kubernetes layers like

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