Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
AI summary of the role
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Alloy, one of the first two on a new team embedded with the most strategic enterprise accounts.
What you’ll do
- Architect and tune customer and channel-partner deployments end-to-end (API integrations, third-party data, SDKs, latency).
- Write production code across TypeScript, JavaScript/React, Python/Django, Node.js, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, AWS.
- Serve as Alloy's credible technical voice with customer engineering leadership, making real-time architectural calls.
- Own the engineering track of QBRs and serve in on-call escalation for assigned accounts.
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years hands-on production software development experience.
- Customer-facing technical role (FDE, solutions engineering) with accountability to external stakeholders.
- Strong backend and API fluency; able to read/write production code across services you don't own.
- Sound architectural judgment under ambiguity, able to defend decisions with customers present.
Technologies
TypeScript · JavaScript · React · Python · Django · Node.js · PostgreSQL · OpenSearch · AWS · SDK
About Alloy
Single API + dashboard for KYC/KYB/AML, fraud, and credit decisioning that orchestrates 50+ third-party data sources for banks and fintechs.
Series C · 200–500 people
Source and classification
Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:
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. We look to foster collaboration and community by having our 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
More from the job description
Alloy is where you belong! 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. Through our values: Be Bold, Go Fast, Collaborate, and Celebrate Our Differences, we are creating a workplace where you can grow, thrive, and belong. See how we’ve been continuously recognized and named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces, Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers, Best Fintech to Work for by American Banker, year after year. Check out our investors and read more about us here. 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 s [... source excerpt omitted ...] u'll define how it works. 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 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-cal [... source excerpt omitted ...] 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 defen
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