Lead Full Stack Engineer

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Alloy is the AI-powered identity and fraud prevention platform that accelerates onboarding, stops fraud, and scales compliance across the customer lifecycle so financial organizations can grow without limits. More than 900 of the world's leading financial institutions and fintechs trust Alloy for smarter risk management that drives growth.

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About the team

Alloy is actively hiring experienced full stack engineers to join the Partner Ecosystem Platform Engineering team to design and build a future data provider integration platform. Alloy partners with hundreds of data vendors that perform work across identity verification, fraud mitigation and many others. To scale this out Alloy is building the next generation integration platform, which will make it easy to build, operate and maintain data integrations. Alloy is hiring experienced engineers who can lead this effort, creating a new platform that enables the new stage of Alloy's growth.

Alloy operates in a hybrid-work environment. We look to foster collaboration and community by having our local employees onsite three days a week.
What you'll be doing

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will:

• Design and build a scalable platform that simplifies the creation/operation of hundreds of data partner integrations.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to translate our product and technical vision into a concrete roadmap, guiding the team towards success.
• Partner with third-party vendors & our clients to gather requirements and co-create solutions, ensuring seamless integration of their data within the core product and the evolving marketplace experience.
• Architect, develop, test, and deploy significant customer-facing features and projects using cutting-edge tools and technologies. Our tech stack includes TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6/React), Python (Django), Node.js, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and AWS.
• Craft high-quality, thoroughly-tested code that meets the unique requirements of our clients, ensuring robustness and reliability.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to fellow engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth within our rapidly expanding team.

In summary, you will play a pivotal role in building out the next generation of partner ecosystem platform at Alloy, driving the development of integrations with our data partner APIs and SDKs, leveraging your technical expertise to build solutions that have a significant market impact while fostering a collaborative and high-performance team environment.
Who we're looking for

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in developing production-ready software, demonstrating a proven track record of delivering robust and scalable solutions.
• Experience maintaining and working with data integrations / external API sources
• Expertise in steering technical projects ( fullstack or backend ), adept at prioritizing tasks, defining requirements, and facilitating productive discussions within the team to drive informed technical decisions.
• Collaborative mindset, experience leading engineering teams in collective pursuits, fostering an environment of cooperation and shared success.
• Remarkable ability to adapt swiftly to the evolving needs of our growing organization and dynamic product landscape, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Proficiency in client-side technologies such as TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6/React), HTML/CSS, as well as server-side proficiency in Python (Django), enabling seamless development across the entire stack.
• Practical experience in managing relational databases, with a strong command over PostgreSQL and its intricacies, ensuring efficient data management and retrieval.

Nice to have:

• Experience working in developer productivity domain and/or SDKs
• Experience working in Fintech or the financial services industry.

We're a lean team, so your impact will be felt immediately, and opportunities will grow as the company scales up. If this all sounds like a good fit for you, why not join us?

Alloy is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. In addition to a competitive base salary, this position is also eligible for equity awards in the form of stock options (ISOs) as well as a competitive total benefits package. Your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the details and what compensation could look like for you specifically!

This position has a salary range of $198,000 to $250,000. Offers are determined by experience, skills, and interview performance as indicators of expected contribution, with movement through the range tied to demonstrated impact in the role.
Benefits and Perks

• Unlimited PTO and flexible work policy
• Employee stock options
• Medical, dental, vision plans with HSA (monthly employer contribution) 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 include access to ClassPass, OneMedical, UrbanSitter, and Spring Health
• Hybrid 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.

How to apply

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