About this role
About the Role
Join Alloy as part of a new Forward Deployed Engineering function. You’ll be embedded with strategic accounts, owning the technical outcome end-to-end—from API integrations and data integrations to deployment architecture—helping customers leverage Alloy within their fraud and risk stack. As one of the first two engineers on this founding team, you’ll define how this function works and scale its impact across deployments.
What You'll Do
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Architect and tune customer and channel-partner deployments end-to-end — API integrations, third-party data integrations, SDKs, and latency constraints.
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Write production code across our stack: TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6/React), Python (Django), Node.js, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and AWS.
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Serve as Alloy's credible technical voice with customer engineering leadership, making architectural calls in real time.
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Own the engineering track of QBRs for your accounts and serve in their on-call escalation path.
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Turn your work into reusable platform primitives and docs, so each deployment makes the next one faster.
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What We're Looking For
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5+ years of hands-on experience developing production-ready software, with a proven track record of delivering robust, scalable solutions.
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Experience in a customer-facing technical role, Forward Deployed Engineering, solutions engineering with deep technical ownership, or similar - where you were accountable to an external stakeholder, not just an internal roadmap.
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Strong backend and API fluency, with the ability to read and write production code across services you don't own.
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Sound architectural judgment under ambiguity: you can make and defend technical decisions in the room, with a customer watching.
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A genuine pull toward customer-facing work - you find energy in solving a real customer's real problem, alongside their engineers.
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A clear technical communicator who can explain a complex integration tradeoff to a bank's VP of Engineering and to an Alloy PM in the same afternoon.
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Nice to Have
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Experience at a company with a strong Forward Deployed Engineering culture (Palantir, Scale AI, Ramp, Plaid, Stripe, etc.).
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Familiarity with identity, fraud, KYC/KYB, or financial services infrastructure.
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Experience with SDK development or embedded front-end integrations.
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Compensation & Benefits
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Salary: $166,000 to $250,000 per year (USD).
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Benefits and Perks: Unlimited PTO and flexible work policy; Employee stock options; Medical, dental, vision plans with HSA and FSA options; 401k with 100% match up to 4% of annual employee compensation; Eligible new parents receive 16 weeks of paid parental leave; Home office stipend for new employees; Annual Learning & Development annual stipend; Well-being benefits (ClassPass, OneMedical, UrbanSitter, and Spring Health); Hybrid work environment; Onsite Tuesdays through Thursdays at HQ in Union Square, Manhattan; Zoom-in options on Monday/Friday.