Senior Design Engineer, Web
Our mission is to bring blockchain to a billion people. The Alchemy Platform is a world class developer platform designed to make building on the blockchain easy. We’ve built leading infrastructure in the space, powering over $105 billion in transactions for tens of millions of users in 99% of countries worldwide.
The Alchemy team draws from decades of deep expertise in massively scalable infrastructure, AI, and blockchain from leadership roles at leading companies and universities like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Stanford, and MIT.
Alchemy recently raised a Series C1 at a $10.2B valuation led by Lightspeed and Silver Lake. Previously, Alchemy raised from a16z, Coatue, Addition, Stanford University, Coinbase, the Chairman of Google, Charles Schwab, and the founders and executives of leading organizations.
Alchemy powers the top blockchain companies globally and has been featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, Bloomberg, and elsewhere.
The Role
Alchemy believes that the future of the internet is decentralized and built on blockchain technology. We are building the tools and infrastructure that will make it possible for anyone to build and grow a business on the blockchain.
Our design team is responsible for creating user-friendly and engaging experiences for our users. The design team works across many projects at Alchemy—from our brand and website, to our many products surfaces. In this position you’ll be working closely with design, engineering and product teams to ensure that our products are easy to use and meet the needs of our users.
We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Design Engineer to join our Design team and help us build the future of web3. This is a new role for Alchemy and an opportunity to not only up-level our already exceedingly high standards for design, but also define what a Senior Design Engineer does at Alchemy and pave the way for this new discipline.
Responsibilities
- Cover design demands on implementing UI with complex interactions and animations mainly on the marketing website, micro-sites, interactive prototypes and all the way to the extended front facing web app products.
- Design and build entire web experiences
- Collaborate with designers to prototype and implement web animations and interaction-heavy product launch materials
- Maintain and extend our design systems and front-end library
- Concept and prototype web pages and apps
- Build and improve high-performance web pages
What we’re looking for:
- 7+ years of web front-end development experience, including SaaS and public-facing websites, web3 is a plus
- Proven ability to contribute to design teams and create delightful web experiences
- Advanced knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, SCSS, and front-end frameworks, such as TypeScript, React, GraphQL, HTML/CSS, and NodeJS.
- Advanced knowledge of frontend best practices, design patterns, performance patterns, and rendering patterns for optimizing websites for core web vitals
- Ability to write clear, elegant code in a team environment
- Portfolio of design work and frontend code, including design systems, engaging micro-sites, Figma plugins, webGL experiments, and CSS art
You should include these in your application
- A link to your online portfolio
- Your CV or LinkedIn profile
- A few words about why Alchemy is interesting to you
$60,000 - $200,000 *
full-time
Location: NY/CA
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Posted: 03 August 2023
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