Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Alchemy

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 205,000 - 240,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Private Health Insurance

Gym Reimbursement

Commuter Benefits

Flexible Time Off

In-Office Group Meals

Learning & Development Stipend

Conferences & Events

Books & Audiobook subscription with 2

Job summary

Alchemy is hiring a software engineer on the Developer Experience team. You will own projects end-to-end, from problem statement through production, and measure outcomes.

The role focuses on developer discovery and operation across dashboards, APIs, SDKs, CLI, and MCP server, with growing support for coding agents and x402 payments. We value experience with developer platforms, billing systems, observability, and open source contributions.

Qualifications

Blockchain experience and developer platforms exposure are preferred.
Experience with billing, metering, or pricing systems is beneficial.
Observability, incident response, and performance optimization are valued.
Open source contributions, talks, or technical writing are a plus.

Responsibilities

Own projects from problem definition through design, launch, measurement, and on-call.
Design APIs with versioning, error handling, and safe defaults.
Build data models and services that stay correct as traffic grows, with security in mind.
Develop the user-facing side across dashboard, CLI, and SDKs for safe discoverability.
Instrument shipped features using activation and adoption data to guide next steps.
Write design docs and runbooks; review code and designs to ensure quality.
Collaborate with Product, Billing, Security, Growth and other teams.

Skills

Blockchain experience

Developer platforms

Billing/pricing systems

Observability/incident response

Open source contributions

Tools

Temporal workflow

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.

About Alchemy

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.

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

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