Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Alloy is where you belong!

Alloy helps solve the identity risk problem for companies that offer financial products by enabling them to outpace fraud and confidently serve more people around the world. Over 600 of the world’s largest financial institutions and fintechs turn to Alloy to take control of fraud, credit, and compliance risk, and grow with the clearest picture of their customers.

Through our values: Be Bold, Get Scrappy, 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.

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JOB TITLE & LOCATION:
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
New York City

What you'll be doing

• Leverage a strong CS foundation to design and implement performant algorithms for a variety of applications such as graph traversal, among others.
• Build, test, and ship modern customer-facing features and frontend software products using React, TypeScript, Redux, React-Query, JSS tools like Styled-Components, and other industry-standard libraries. Champion best practices across our frontend product and promote high-quality code across our teams.
• Craft performant backend server features using Node.js and Python to be consumed by our dashboard and clients, following REST and other best practices.
• Adopt a client/server and asynchronous Pub/Sub queue-based architectures using Redis as the inter-process message queue.
• Utilize non-relational data stores such as ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, and Redis to perform efficient and responsive search queries across large datasets. Know when to index and denormalize data in different structures to achieve near-instant searching on customer data, providing the user with a responsive Alloy experience.
• Write efficient SQL queries to read and write data from our relational Postgres database hosted in AWS clusters, upholding our performance standards.
• Produce high-quality, well-tested code to meet the needs of our clients using modern automated unit & integration testing libraries such as Mocha, Jest, Vitest & Supertest. Establish strong testing patterns and best practices, and guide other engineers to raise coverage and quality of tests.
• Own and tech-lead projects across our product, from planning and design phases to release and monitoring. Write thorough Engineering Requirement Documents (ERDs) to lay out solutions and generate buy-in from other engineering stakeholders across the organization.
• Provide technical mentorship and review the code of junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth within our rapidly expanding team. Participate in and guide some of our cross-cutting engineering guilds, helping to create a culture of technical inclusivity and collaboration.
• Collaborate with other software engineers to build internal tools and React components pushing for adoption across teams.
• Engage with designers and product managers to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible deliverable, keeping user needs as your driving principle, and provide a technical point of view that assertively informs deadlines and requirements.
• Iterate quickly based on product and client feedback, maintaining a user-centric perspective across every feature and line of code you write.

Who we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or any closely related field.
• 1 or more years of work experience as a Software Engineer, or a closely related position.

Wage Range
Salary: $161,000/year to $217,000/year

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?

At Alloy, we strive to attract and retain talent with a total rewards program that is competitive with other organizations of our size and stage. We are committed to ensuring each new team member has what they need to be successful in their role with a balanced range of compensation, equity, perks, and benefits. We actively share our philosophy with employees, with the goal of fostering openness and clarity. Finally, we work to administer our philosophy and drive consistency in order to promote equity and monitor the fairness of outcomes.

Benefits and Perks 

• Hybrid work environment: employees are expected to work Tuesdays and 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/Wednesday/Friday most employees Zoom into work from home while some take advantage of the quieter office.
• 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, and Spring Health 

How to apply

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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 are committed to an inclusive interview experience and provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with visible and invisible disabilities. We encourage applicants to share needed accommodations with their recruiter.