Alloy

Alloy

Senior/Lead Software Engineer, Platform

New York City · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$198k-$250kDetected 4 days ago
TypeScriptNode.jsSpringPostgreSQLSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringData EngineeringIncident ResponseLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • Alloy's engineering org is built around speed, ownership, and deep collaboration.
  • Our Platform and Infrastructure/Site Reliability teams report into the same leadership, which ensure seamless cross-team collaboration.
  • It's a setup that rewards engineers who care about the full lifecycle of the software they ship.

Responsibilities

  • As a Senior/Lead Platform Engineer, you will:
  • Architect and build backend systems.
  • You'll own features end-to-end: from database design through to API endpoints, triggered events, and data pipelines.
  • Drive platform-level initiatives.
  • Own incident response and follow-through. When things break, you help get them back up. More importantly, you stick around for the blameless post-mortem and make sure the same thing doesn't happen twice.
  • Mentor and multiply the team. You'll be given the trust and authority to tackle ambiguous, high-impact problems end-to-end, making architectural tradeoffs that hold up in production, and raising the bar for how the team builds and operates systems.
  • Partner with Infra and SRE.
  • Observability, failure modes, and operational readiness are part of how we build at Alloy.
  • Own incident response and follow-through.
  • You'll be given the trust and authority to tackle ambiguous, high-impact problems end-to-end, making architectural tradeoffs that hold up in production, and raising the bar for how the team builds and operates systems.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in relational databases and experience with analytical databases.
  • We care far more about how you think, communicate, and work with others than about your degree or resume formatting.
  • Data systems expertise: Deep expertise in relational databases and experience with analytical databases.

Nice to have

  • Experience designing high-throughput data pipelines, working with event-driven systems, or operating services under real production load is a strong plus.
  • Collaboration over credentials: We care far more about how you think, communicate, and work with others than about your degree or resume formatting.
  • If most of your experience is through contracting or ambitious personal projects, tell us about it, we're open!
  • Ownership mindset: You don't wait to be told what to fix.
  • You notice problems, flag them, and help solve them.
  • We're a lean team, so your impact will be felt immediately, and opportunities will grow as the company scales up.
  • If this all sounds like a good fit for you, why not join us?
  • Alloy is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

Skills

  • Observability

Compensation

  • 401k with 100% match up to 4% of annual employee compensation

Benefits

  • Unlimited PTO and flexible work policy
  • Employee stock options
  • Medical, dental, vision plans with HSA (monthly employer contribution) and FSA options
  • Eligible new parents receive 16 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Home office stipend for new employees
  • Annual Learning & Development annual stipend
  • Well-being benefits include access to ClassPass, OneMedical, UrbanSitter, and Spring Health
  • With Platform and Infra/SRE under the same roof, you'll be involved in conversations about reliability, deployment, and production health- not just as a consumer of infrastructure, but as a collaborator.

Company info

  • Be Bold, Go Fast, 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.
  • Check out our investors and read more about us here.
  • Platform engineers here don't just build APIs in isolation, they work hand-in-hand with SRE to think about how systems run, scale, and recover in production.
  • The backend powers everything from fraud detection and transaction classification to data ingestion and third-party integrations.
  • We are a high performing team where engineers have significant ownership over core systems.
  • There's no separate "architecture layer"-the people writing the code are the ones making the decisions.
  • We're a hybrid team based in Greenwich Village, NYC, and we're looking for someone local to the Greater NYC area who will attend the office Tuesdays through Thursdays.
  • What you'll be doing
  • employees are expected to work Tuesdays through Thursdays from our HQ in Union Square, Manhattan.
  • Tasty lunches catered from a variety of local restaurants and frequent employee-organized cultural events contribute to our positive office energy.

Equal opportunity

  • We're committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

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