Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Team We're standing up a new function at Alloy: Forward Deployed Engineering. Our largest enterprise customers need a trusted technical partner with a strong point of view on how Alloy fits into their tech stack and fraud strategy. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll be that partner — embedded with our most strategic accounts and owning the technical outcome end-to-end, with each deployment becoming the foundation for the next. You'll be one of the first two engineers on this founding team. This is a software engineering role through and through — based within our Engineering org, with a scope that spans software, product, and solutions engineering. You won't just join this function — you'll define how it works. Alloy operates in a hybrid‑work environment and looks to foster collaboration and community by having local employees onsite three days a week.What You'll Be Doing Architect and tune customer and channel‑partner deployments end‑to‑end — API integrations, third‑party data integrations, SDKs, and latency constraints.Write production code across our stack: TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6/React), Python (Django), Node.js, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and AWS.Serve as Alloy's credible technical voice with customer engineering leadership, making architectural calls in real time.Own the engineering track of QBRs for your accounts and serve in their on‑call escalation path.Turn your work into reusable platform primitives and docs, so each deployment makes the next one faster.Who We're Looking For 5+ years of hands‑on experience developing production‑ready software, with a proven track record of delivering robust, scalable solutions.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.Strong backend and API fluency, with the ability to read and write production code across services you don't own.Sound architectural judgment under ambiguity: you can make and defend technical decisions in the room, with a customer watching.A genuine pull toward customer‑facing work — you find energy in solving a real customer's real problem, alongside their engineers.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.Nice To Have Experience at a company with a strong Forward Deployed Engineering culture (Palantir, Scale AI, Ramp, Plaid, Stripe, etc.).Familiarity with identity, fraud, KYC/KYB, or financial services infrastructure.Experience with SDK development or embedded front‑end integrations.Benefits and Perks Unlimited PTO and flexible work policyEmployee stock optionsMedical, dental, vision plans with HSA (monthly employer contribution) and FSA options401k with 100% match up to 4% of annual employee compensationEligible new parents receive 16 weeks of paid parental leaveHome office stipend for new employeesAnnual Learning & Development annual stipendWell‑being benefits include access to ClassPass, OneMedical, UrbanSitter, and Spring HealthHybrid work environment: employees are expected to work Tuesdays through Thursdays from our HQ in Union Square, Manhattan. Tasty lunches catered from a variety of local restaurants and frequent employee‑organized cultural events contribute to our positive office energy. On Monday/Friday most employees Zoom into work from home while some take advantage of the quieter office.This position has a salary range of $166,000 to $250,000.Alloy is proud to be an equal‑opportunity workplace and employer. We're committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status. We provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with visible and invisible disabilities.#J-18808-Ljbffr