Senior Software Engineer, Decisioning

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.

Alloy operates in a hybrid‑work environment. We look to foster collaboration and community by having our local employees onsite three times per week.

The Advance team is a group of full‑stack engineers focused on making the experience of using Alloy more and more “advanced” over time. They do this by working on features that leverage our differentiated data set to provide our customers with optimizations of their risk policies, more insights into their data, and proactive alerting of previously unknown risks. The team works all across the Alloy platform, striving to improve the usability of our rules engine and end‑to‑end case management system.

Advance is a highly product‑oriented team working on the most promising areas of the Alloy platform, which involves collaborative work across various functions.

• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to translate our product and technical vision into a concrete roadmap, guiding the team towards success.
• Architect, develop, test, and deploy significant customer‑facing features and projects using cutting‑edge tools and technologies.
• Work on both the front‑end and back‑end, leaning in on either side of the stack as needed depending on the project. Our tech stack includes Type Script, JavaScript (ES6/React), Node.js, Postgre
  
  SQL, Open Search, and AWS.
• Craft high‑quality, thoroughly‑tested code that meets the unique requirements of our clients, ensuring robustness, reliability, and continuous improvement of our platform.
• Embrace an iterative approach, swiftly iterating on features and solutions based on valuable feedback from both our product team and clients, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with user needs.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance, and foster a culture of learning and growth.

We’re actually hiring for two new teammates at the Senior 1 & Senior 2 levels. There is some overlap in qualifications, given that we like to see technical leadership and expertise across senior levels in general. Ultimately, an offer and leveling will come down to depth of experience and interview performance.

We’re looking for:

• 5+ years of hands‑on experience in developing production‑ready software, demonstrating a proven track record of delivering robust and scalable solutions. (8+ years for the Senior 2 role)
• Demonstrated expertise steering both front‑end and back‑end technical projects, prioritizing tasks, defining requirements, and facilitating productive discussions within the team to drive informed technical decisions.
• A collaborative mindset and experience in effectively leading engineering teams in collective pursuits, fostering an environment of cooperation and shared success.
• Strong ability to adapt swiftly to the evolving needs of our growing organization and dynamic product landscape, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Proficiency in client‑side technologies such as Type Script, JavaScript (ES6/React), HTML/CSS, as well as server‑side proficiency in Python (Django), enabling seamless development across the entire stack.
• Practical experience in managing relational databases, with a strong command over Postgre
  
  SQL and its intricacies, ensuring efficient data management and retrieval.

• 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 stipend
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