Full Stack 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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About the team

The Client Insights team focuses on helping clients unlock the full potential of their data in Alloy. We rely on analytics and data science to help clients understand their risks and then improve their policies to better detect fraud and stay up to date with industry best practices. The Client Insights team is made up of data scientists, data engineers and full stack engineers who are working to deliver in-app tools that leverage client data to enhance the user experience and quicker detect fraud in as automated of a way as possible. 

Like all engineering teams at Alloy, we work all across the Alloy codebase and product and regularly collaborate with other engineering squads as well as cross-functional partners outside of engineering. Our features cover the full stack, from PostgreSQL, Redshift, Opensearch for data storage; NodeJS and Python API for backend services; and React/Redux for our frontend. We deploy using GitHub, CircleCI, Docker, and AWS, among other tools. 

What you'll be doing

In this role you will get to work alongside our data engineers and data scientists to integrate machine learning models as well as valuable and actionable insights directly into the Alloy product. You will be responsible for building scalable and maintainable connectors into our data stores and intuitive data visualizations for our customers to interact with directly.

Who we’re looking for

• Joins us in person at our Manhattan office on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
• Has a full stack software engineering skillset, ideally in our core stack: React, NodeJS, PSQL, Python (or relatable experience with similar technologies).
• Builds and ships well-crafted features and supports them.
• Relentlessly hunts down bugs till the cause is known and the solution is in place.
• Proactively communicates about their work, both the challenges and successes.
• Enjoys working on multi-engineer projects—we are a very collaborative team and culture.
• Can be autonomous for their own projects, including owning delivery dates and writing concrete technical plans from the product vision of UX designers and PMs.
• Internalizes the “why” behind features, understanding what the users want to be able to do and is obsessed with telling stories through data.
• Has an action-oriented mindset of responsibility: leaving the codebase better than it was, working toward solutions even when a problem isn’t with your or your team's code, actively helping with on-call incidents and contributing to blameless postmortems after.
• Takes initiative to improve their own skills as well as finding ways to improve their team or engineering guilds.
• 4 years of relevant experience recommended.

Nice to have

Please highlight any that apply when you apply or talk with us.

• Banking / the financial services industry
• Mid-size startups
• UI component libraries and design systems
• Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
• AWS (e.g. Redshift, Airflow, Sagemaker), Kubernetes
• Experience working with ML models in product features

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.

This position has a salary range of $131,000 to $154,000. The base pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and region. In addition to a competitive base salary, this position is also eligible for equity awards in the form of stock options (ISOs).

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.