Founding Forward Deployed Engineer — Remote

Kenyan Edu; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Employee stock options

Medical/Dental/Vision with HSA

401k match

Parental leave

Home office stipend

Learning stipend

Well-being benefits

Job summary

Alloy is building a new Forward Deployed Engineering function. As a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you will be embedded with strategic accounts, owning technical outcomes from architecture to implementation.

You will write production code across a modern stack and serve as Alloy's technical voice with customer leadership. You will join a lean, fast-moving team and help define how this function works, with travel to NYC and client offices in the US.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering production-ready software.
• Experience in a customer-facing technical role or forward deployed engineering.
• Strong backend and API fluency across services you don't own.
• Ability to make and defend architectural decisions in client-facing scenarios.

Responsibilities

• Architect and tune deployments end-to-end including API integrations and data integrations.
• Write production code across stack: TS/JS, Python, Node.js, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, AWS.
• Serve as credible technical voice with customer engineering leadership.
• Own the engineering track of QBRs and be on-call escalation for accounts.

Skills

Backend development

API fluency

Customer-facing engineering

Architectural judgment

Technical communication

Tools

TypeScript/JavaScript

Python/Django

PostgreSQL

OpenSearch

AWS

Job description

Alloy is building a new Forward Deployed Engineering function. As a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you will be embedded with strategic accounts, owning technical outcomes from architecture to implementation.

You will write production code across a modern stack and serve as Alloy's technical voice with customer leadership. You will join a lean, fast-moving team and help define how this function works, with travel to NYC and client offices in the US.