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.
Requirements
- Is undeniably skilled at coding, architecting software systems, and making the most of tools like GitHub, CircleCI, Jira, and Docker.
- Consistently delivers and supports impactful, reliable, scalable, extensible features.
- Leads multi-engineer projects effectively: scoping work and delegating it to other engineers, communicating about the project with leadership, and facilitating productive discussions within the team to resolve blocking issues.
- Has significant fullstack experience working with the core technologies of our stack: React, Node, and Postgres (or else relatable experience with similar technologies).
- Our tech stack is primarily TypeScript: Node.js, React, Redux, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redshift and other AWS products, Storybook for our in-house UI component library, and rarely some legacy Python/Django.
- Working at Fintechs or the financial services industry
- Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
Responsibilities
- Crafting straightforward, typed, tested code that’s reliable, extensible, and scalable.
- Architecting, building, launching, and supporting customer-facing fullstack features and systems.
- Leading small teams of engineers for larger projects and work individually on smaller ones.
- Coalescing Alloy’s product vision from PMs and UX designers into concrete technical plans then share and review those plans with other engineers.
- Providing technical mentorship and guidance to fellow engineers, fostering a culture of learning and growth within our expanding team and within our cross-engineering guilds such as the observability guild, architecture guild or security guild.
- Embracing an iterative customer-centric approach, flexibly iterating on features based on feedback from internal and external customers.
- Using modern software tools and advocate for new ones when appropriate.
Other
- Is a collaborative colleague who galvanizes others to improve aspects of their work, be it the codebase, tooling, or team processes.
- 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.
- Reacts flexibly to the evolving needs of our organization and customers.
- 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 a quarter.
- Be on-call for a week once every few months (after a reasonable ramp-up period).
