Engineering Manager Developer Experience

Alloy is the AI-powered identity and fraud prevention platform that accelerates onboarding stops fraud and scales compliance across the customer lifecycle so financial organizations can grow without limits. More than 900 of the world's leading financial institutions and fintechs trust Alloy for smarter risk management that drives growth.
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We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Developer Experience team within the Connection organization. This team owns Alloy's external-facing integration surface - the APIs webhooks and tooling that developers and partners use to connect with Alloy and build on top of our platform.

In this role you will lead a team responsible for the systems and experiences that make Alloy easy to integrate with: our Events API Outgoing Webhooks Service partnership data feeds external developer documentation and the integrations that power Alloy's channel partner ecosystem. You will own the technical and strategic vision for how data flows in and out of Alloy at scale and how external developers experience the platform - from first API call to production.

Alloy operates in a hybrid-work environment. We look to foster collaboration and community by having our local employees onsite three days a week.

The Engineering Manager's primary responsibility is their team. You will balance three key areas: recruiting and growing great engineers supporting each person's development and partnering with product and stakeholders to ship high-quality high-impact work.

As the Engineering Manager you will:

• Lead develop and mentor a team of engineers through weekly 1:1s career conversations and hands-on technical guidance.
• Own the roadmap and delivery for Alloy's developer-facing infrastructure — APIs webhooks data ingestion and outbound data flows - ensuring reliability scalability and a great developer experience.
• Partner closely with product design partnerships and customer-facing teams to shape what gets built and why.
• Drive technical strategy for the team's systems including API design standards event delivery guarantees and integration patterns used by external developers.
• Track and improve engineering health using DORA metrics and team-level KPIs; establish release and monitoring standards that keep quality high.
• Recruit and hire strong engineers; own onboarding and ramp for new team members.
• Communicate clearly across the organization — surface risks resolve blockers and keep stakeholders aligned on progress and trade-offs.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager who has built and led teams working on developer-facing products APIs or platform infrastructure. An ideal candidate has::

• 8+ years in engineering with at least 3 years in an engineering leadership role.
• A strong background in developer experience API platform engineering or developer tooling - you have shipped products that external developers integrate with and build on top of.
• Deep familiarity with API design and HTTP/event-based integration patterns (REST webhooks async messaging); you can credibly lead technical discussions on API contract design delivery guarantees and integration reliability.
• A track record of building and shipping high-quality systems at scale with clear accountability for outcomes.
• Technical fluency in modern backend stacks - strong with TypeScript/Node.js; comfortable reviewing code debugging production issues and contributing to architectural decisions.
• Experience working with external partners or customers on integration work; you understand what makes a platform easy (or hard) to integrate with.
• Experience leading sprint planning goal-based project tracking and cross-functional delivery.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to translate technical complexity for non-technical stakeholders and advocate for the team.
• Experience recruiting hiring and onboarding engineers.
• A servant-leader mindset - you lead by removing obstacles pointing people in the right direction and investing in the people around you.
• Must be local to New York City and attend the office 3-4 days per week.

Nice to have:

• Experience in high-growth product companies or startups.
• Experience in fintech financial services or other regulated industries.

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. Below is the anticipated starting base compensation range for this role; however pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge in-demand skills relevant experience and/or geography. In addition to a competitive base salary this position is also eligible for equity awards in the form of stock options (ISOs) as well as a competitive total benefits package. Your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the details and what compensation could look like for you specifically!

This position has a salary range of $222000 - $285000.

• Unlimited PTO and flexible work policy
• Employee stock options
• Medical dental vision plans with HSA (monthly employer contribution) and FSA options
• 401k with 100% match up to 4% of annual employee compensation 
• 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 
• Hybrid work environment: 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. On Monday/Friday most employees Zoom into work from home while some take advantage of the quieter office.

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Alloy is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and employer. 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. We are committed to an inclusive interview experience and provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with visible and invisible disabilities. We encourage applicants to share needed accommodations with their recruiter.

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What We Do

Alloy is the only end-to-end identity risk management platform for companies that offer financial products. Beginning with origination and account opening Alloy provides over 600 of the world's leading banks credit unions and fintechs with a scalable flexible platform to manage identity risk throughout the customer lifecycle. With configurable solutions for fraud credit and compliance risk dedicated expert guidance and the industry’s most extensive ecosystem of data partners Alloy helps companies deliver great financial products to more customers around the world.

Why Work With Us

Alloy is a tech company by category not by culture! We’re a diverse bunch of deeply talented people who embrace all genders races ethnicities and backgrounds. It starts with people-first leaders using Alloy's 4 core values as a guiding light and creating an inclusive culture where folks can be themselves & grow while doing their best work.

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