Job Title: Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
Company: Alloy (an AI-powered identity and fraud prevention platform used by 900+ financial institutions and fintechs)
Job Type: Full-time.
Location: Remote
Salary/Pay: USD 141,000 - 250,000 per year (starting base, depending on skills, experience and geography). Also eligible for stock options. Benefits include unlimited PTO, medical, dental, and vision plans, a 401k with a 100% match up to 4%, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, a home office stipend, and a learning and development stipend.
Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience developing production-ready software
Skills Required:
- A proven record of delivering robust, scalable software
- Experience in a customer-facing technical role, such as forward-deployed engineering or solutions engineering with deep technical ownership
- 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, including defending decisions in front of customers
- Clear technical communication with both customer engineering leaders and internal product managers
- Stack used: TypeScript, JavaScript (React), Python (Django), Node.js, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and AWS
- Willingness to travel occasionally to the NYC office and to client offices in the US
- Advantageous: experience at a company with a strong forward deployed engineering culture (Palantir, Scale AI, Ramp, Plaid, Stripe), familiarity with identity, fraud, KYC/KYB or financial infrastructure, and SDK or embedded front-end integration experience
Application Deadline: November 17, 2026
Description:
Alloy is hiring a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to be one of the first two engineers in a new function. The engineer is embedded with Alloy's largest enterprise customers and owns the technical outcome end to end, acting as a trusted technical partner on how Alloy fits into their tech stack and fraud strategy. It is a software engineering role within the Engineering org, spanning software, product, and solutions engineering, and you will help define how the function works.
Key responsibilities include:
- Architecting and tuning customer and channel-partner deployments end to end, including API integrations, third-party data integrations, SDKs, and latency constraints
- Writing production code across Alloy's stack
- Acting as Alloy's credible technical voice with customer engineering leadership and making architectural calls in real time
- Owning the engineering track of quarterly business reviews for your accounts and serving in their on-call escalation path
- Turning your work into reusable platform primitives and documentation so each deployment speeds up the next
How to Apply:
Apply here.