What we do
Alkimiya is a decentralized protocol for blockspace financial assets, providing both producers and consumers of blockspace with the marketplace to create and trade financial instruments suited to their needs.
Blockspace is the core resource powering the heartbeat of the entire crypto ecosystem. Similar to how robust financial markets developed for all primary energy and commodities in history, as on-chain commercial activities expand, native financial markets dedicated to blockspace becomes a top requirement for the industry’s sustainable growth.
Learn more about the blockspace market here.
About the team
We are a lean and well-capitalized team of 10, working fully remotely with flexible hours all over the world. The team meets frequently in person during offsites where we focus on building connections with teammates and having fun. So far, we’ve had offsites in Barcelona, London, Denver, San Francisco, and Tahoe.
Role responsibilities
As our full-stack lead, you will have a high degree of ownership and a unique ability to shape our technical direction. Day-to-day activities would include:
- Supporting smart contract, backend, and frontend teams in day-to-day coding and PR reviews, connecting multiple codebases together
- Facilitating cross-team collaboration
- Becoming the expert / person with context when it comes to high-level technical matters; e.g. how a feature works from end-to-end and what requirements must be maintained for it to work
- Socializing knowledge via commit logs/PR descriptions/changelogs, READMEs, Notion docs, etc
- Taking over some of the technical specification work from the product team
Core skills
We are a small, flat organization, so self-sufficiency, initiative, and leadership skills are essential. In addition:
- Experience developing and deploying customer-facing applications
- Familiarity with our stack (AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL, Node.js, Solidity, GraphQL, TypeScript, Next.js) is a strong plus
- …but flexibility and ability to adapt to new technology are even more important
- Commitment to software quality, including security, performance/efficiency, architecture, maintainability, style, and testing
- Attention to detail and high awareness of downstream consequences, e.g. how a design decision in one area will affect the app
- Ability to accurately grasp product requirements and assess feasibility - and to reflect them in the technical requirements and prioritization