Engineering Internship, Summer 2025 (Bucharest)
at alchemy
alchemy
Posted on Dec 17, 2024
eu
oman
romania
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Our mission is to bring web3 to a billion people, by providing builders with the tools they need to build exceptional onchain products. Alchemy is the only complete developer platform that offers the powerful APIs, SDKs, and tools necessary to build and scale onchain apps and rollups.

Our infrastructure powers 70% of the top web3 teams, 90%+ of web2 companies building in web3 and 100+ million end users. Our customers include top web3 brands like Polymarket, OpenSea, Circle, WorldCoin, as well as major global brands like Shopify and Adobe.

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.

We're backed by the world's leading VCs and institutions, including: Lightspeed, Silver Lake, a16z, Coatue, Pantera, Addition, Stanford University, Coinbase, and Charles Schwab, among others.

The Role

As a summer intern, you’ll work directly with our world class engineering team to push forward your teams project. There is a lot to do and a lot to learn, so be prepared to dive in headfirst as you immerse yourself in the world of blockchain. We’re growing fast and moving even faster so we can’t say exactly what you’ll be working on next summer, but potential projects range from developing new APIs and features to creating internal tooling. So join us on our mission to bring blockchain to a billion people. This is not a remote position, and will be hybrid role.

Responsibilities:

  • Apply knowledge from course work and learnings from previous experiences to real world problems
  • Collaborate with the engineering team to deliver solutions to real problems the engineering team is facing
  • Move quickly and learn about the blockchain space

What We're Looking For:

  • Pursuing a Bachelors (Juniors/Seniors only), Masters, or PhD with a focus on subjects related to software development, computer science and/or mathematics
  • Passionate about programming with a solid understanding of key concepts in at least two general purpose programming language, preferably C++, Rust or Python
  • Familiarity with Unix/Linux environment
  • Interest in DevOps and SRE concepts like automation, monitoring and maintaining system uptime, shell scripting skills, networking and exposure to distributed systems or cloud tools are a plus
  • At least one previous Software Engineering internship with proven ability to execute and exposure to real-world systems is a plus
  • Interest in the blockchain space, demonstrated with course work, extracurriculars, open source contributions and/or work experience
  • Strong verbal and written English communication skills