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Alloy

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

New York City$166k–$250kmidAdded 1 month ago

About this role

Alloy is hiring a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to establish a new technical function embedded with enterprise customers. As one of the first two engineers on this founding team, you'll architect end-to-end deployments, write production code across their full stack, and serve as the technical voice for strategic accounts while defining how the function operates.

What you'll do

  • Design and optimize customer deployments across API integrations, third-party data sources, SDKs, and latency requirements
  • Write production code in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and AWS
  • Act as technical advisor to customer engineering leadership and make architectural decisions in real-time
  • Own the engineering aspects of quarterly business reviews and provide on-call escalation support
  • Convert deployment work into reusable platform primitives and documentation for future projects

What they're looking for

  • Full-stack software development (5+ years production experience)
  • Backend and API development with multi-service fluency
  • Technical communication across executive and engineering audiences
  • Architectural decision-making under ambiguity
  • Customer-facing technical engagement and solutions engineering
  • TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Node.js
  • PostgreSQL and cloud infrastructure (AWS)

Benefits

  • Founding team role with significant impact and growth opportunity
  • Hybrid work environment with three onsite days per week in NYC
  • Competitive base salary (specific range not provided in excerpt)
  • Recognized as Inc. Magazine Best Workplace and Forbes America's Best Startup Employers
  • Collaborative culture with values emphasizing boldness, speed, and inclusivity
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Alloy

Alloy builds enterprise software solutions that require deep technical integration with customers. The company is hiring founding engineers for forward-deployed customer roles and AI-focused engineers to drive automation and AI adoption across the organization.

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Likely interview questions

  • Tell us about a time you were embedded with a customer as a technical leader. How did you balance their needs with internal product roadmap priorities?
  • Walk us through a complex API integration or deployment you architected. What were the key technical tradeoffs, and how did you communicate them to non-technical stakeholders?
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