Senior Software Engineer Frontend Platform

Alloy helps solve the identity risk problem for companies that offer financial products by enabling them to outpace fraud and confidently serve more people around the world. Over 800 of the world’s largest financial institutions and fintechs turn to Alloy to take control of fraud credit and compliance risk and grow with the clearest picture of their customers.

Through our values: 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.

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Alloy’s mission is to help financial companies deploy safe and seamless customer experiences. 

Alloy reduces friction for end-users by helping them onboard customers with fewer hoops keeping their accounts safe with ongoing transaction monitoring and delivering credit decisions faster. We envision a more dynamic financial industry where the underbanked find more access to the financial products they need. 

The Frontend Platform team creates the foundations that make it easier for engineers to build high-quality product experiences quickly consistently and with confidence. We work across shared UI systems frontend architecture developer experience performance reliability and the tools that help teams ship well.

This is a team for engineers who enjoy working at a leverage point. Instead of owning a single feature area we shape the patterns primitives and workflows that many teams build on top of. Our work sits at the intersection of product engineering design systems and platform thinking with a strong focus on creating durable solutions that improve the experience for both developers and end users.

We’re still an evolving team with room to define our scope and raise our ambition over time. That makes this an especially strong opportunity for someone who wants to help shape not just what gets built but how frontend engineering is practiced. We’re excited about modern tooling including AI-assisted and agentic workflows and we believe the best engineers use them to extend strong judgment not replace it.

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

• Build and improve the shared frontend foundations that other engineers rely on including reusable components patterns tooling and platform capabilities
• Help define the architecture standards and best practices that make our frontend systems more scalable maintainable and consistent
• Build and improve customer-facing product surfaces across the Alloy platform helping shape frontend systems and experiences that are not only scalable for engineers but genuinely useful and intuitive for the people using them
• Partner closely with engineers designers and product counterparts to turn broad needs into simple durable solutions with company-wide impact
• Raise the quality bar for frontend engineering through thoughtful design strong implementation clear documentation and pragmatic technical leadership
• Improve the developer experience by reducing friction in local development testing release workflows observability and day-to-day engineering workflows
• Identify opportunities to modernize how we build ship and maintain frontend software including responsible use of AI and agentic engineering tools where they increase quality and leverage
• Contribute as a senior engineer on a growing team: driving technical decisions mentoring others and helping shape the team’s direction as its charter expands

• You’re a senior frontend engineer with 5+ years of experience deep fundamentals in JavaScript or TypeScript modern HTML and CSS and experience building complex web applications with a modern framework such as React
• You have strong engineering judgment and know how to balance product needs user experience long-term maintainability and delivery speed
• You’ve worked on shared systems before whether that means design systems frontend architecture internal platforms developer tooling or other cross-cutting investments
• You care about quality in the broad sense: clean abstractions accessibility performance testing reliability and thoughtful user experience
• You’re comfortable operating in ambiguity and can help shape a problem space that is still evolving rather than waiting for every requirement to be fully defined
• You collaborate well across disciplines and communicate clearly with engineers designers and stakeholders with different perspectives
• You use new tools thoughtfully. You’re curious about AI-enabled ways of working and can incorporate them into your workflow without outsourcing core engineering thinking
• You’re motivated by leverage and craft: you want to build the systems that help an entire engineering organization do better work

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 $166000 to $209000. 

• 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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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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