Lead Backend Engineer, Partner Ecosystem

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 800 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

Alloy is actively hiring experienced backend engineers to join the Partner Ecosystem Platform Engineering team to design and build a future data provider integration platform. Alloy partners with hundreds of data vendors that perform work across identity verification, fraud mitigation and many others. To scale this out Alloy is building the next generation integration platform, which will make it easy to build, operate and maintain data integrations. Alloy is hiring experienced engineers who can lead this effort, creating a new platform that enables the new stage of Alloy’s growth.

Alloy operates in a hybrid-work environment. We look to foster collaboration and community by having our local employees onsite twice a week, and remote employees onsite once per quarter.

What you'll be doing

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will:

• Design and build a scalable platform that simplifies the creation/operation of hundreds of data partner integrations. 
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to translate our product and technical vision into a concrete roadmap, guiding the team towards success.
• Partner with third-party vendors & our clients to gather requirements and co-create solutions, ensuring seamless integration of their data within the core product and the evolving marketplace experience. 
• Architect, develop, test, and deploy significant customer-facing features and projects using cutting-edge tools and technologies. Our tech stack includes TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6/React), Python (Django), Node.js, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and AWS.
• Craft high-quality, thoroughly-tested code that meets the unique requirements of our clients, ensuring robustness and reliability.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to fellow engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth within our rapidly expanding team.

In summary, you will play a pivotal role in building out the next generation of partner ecosystem platform at Alloy, driving the development of integrations with our data partner APIs, leveraging your technical expertise to build solutions that have a significant market impact while fostering a collaborative and high-performance team environment.

Who we're looking for

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in developing production-ready software, demonstrating a proven track record of delivering robust and scalable solutions.
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