Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer — Remote

pofft Technology Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Alloy is seeking a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with our largest enterprise accounts and own the technical outcome end-to-end. You will work across software, product, and solutions engineering, defining how this function operates and scales.

You will be one of the first two engineers on a founding team, building platform primitives, delivering robust deployments, and driving architectural decisions with customers and internal stakeholders in a hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience developing production-ready software.
• Experience in a customer-facing technical role or similar.
• Strong backend and API fluency across services you don’t own.
• Sound architectural judgement under ambiguity and in customer contexts.
• Clear technical communicator able to explain integrations to engineers and PMs.

Responsibilities

• Architect and tune deployments end-to-end — API integrations, data integrations, SDKs, and latency constraints.
• Serve as Alloy's technical voice with customer engineering leadership, making architectural calls.
• Own the engineering track of QBRs for accounts and contribute to on-call escalation paths.
• Turn work into reusable platform primitives and docs to accelerate future deployments.

Skills

Backend and API fluency

Customer-facing experience

Architectural judgement

Technical communication

Travel willingness

Job description

Alloy is seeking a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with our largest enterprise accounts and own the technical outcome end-to-end. You will work across software, product, and solutions engineering, defining how this function operates and scales.

You will be one of the first two engineers on a founding team, building platform primitives, delivering robust deployments, and driving architectural decisions with customers and internal stakeholders in a hybrid work setting.