Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
About The Position
Alloy is establishing a new Forward Deployed Engineering function to serve its largest enterprise customers. This role involves acting as a technical partner, embedded with strategic accounts, to own the technical outcome of deployments end-to-end. The Forward Deployed Engineer will be one of the first two engineers in this founding team, contributing to the definition of the function's operations. The role is within the Engineering organization and spans software, product, and solutions engineering. Alloy operates in a hybrid-work environment, with local employees expected onsite three days a week to foster collaboration.
Requirements
- 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 such as Forward Deployed Engineering, solutions engineering with deep technical ownership, or similar, where accountable to an external stakeholder.
- Strong backend and API fluency, with the ability to read and write production code across services.
- Sound architectural judgment under ambiguity; ability to make and defend technical decisions in real-time with customer presence.
- A genuine pull toward customer-facing work and energy from solving customer problems alongside their engineers.
- Clear technical communicator capable of explaining complex integration tradeoffs to both customer engineering leadership and internal product managers.
Nice To Haves
- Experience at a company with a strong Forward Deployed Engineering culture (e.g., Palantir, Scale AI, Ramp, Plaid, Stripe).
- Familiarity with identity, fraud, KYC/KYB, or financial services infrastructure.
- Experience with SDK development or embedded front-end integrations.
Responsibilities
- Architect and tune customer and channel-partner deployments end-to-end, including API integrations, third-party data integrations, SDKs, and latency constraints.
- Write production code across the Alloy 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 assigned accounts and serve in their on-call escalation path.
- Transform work into reusable platform primitives and documentation to accelerate future deployments.
Benefits
- 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
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave for eligible new parents
- Home office stipend for new employees
- Annual Learning & Development stipend
- Well-being benefits include access to ClassPass, OneMedical, UrbanSitter, and Spring Health
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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