This role pays more than
54%
of similar roles. Most pay
$152,000–$235,400
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$196k
versus about
$194k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Alloy
Alloy is an identity decisioning platform that provides fraud prevention, compliance, and credit underwriting solutions for banks, credit unions, and fintechs to automate identity verification decisions. Industry: Financial Technology & Identity Verification
Alloy currently has
23 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$155,000–$190,000
across 23 roles with salary data.
As a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you will join a new engineering function to serve as a technical partner for enterprise customers. You will be responsible for architecting and tuning customer deployments end-to-end, including API integrations, third-party data integrations, SDKs, and managing latency constraints. Your daily work involves writing production code across the company stack using TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6/React), Python (Django), Node.js, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and AWS. You will act as a credible technical voice for customer engineering leadership, making real-time architectural decisions while turning your work into reusable platform primitives. This role addresses complex integration challenges within the identity and fraud prevention space. The ideal candidate possesses strong backend and API fluency, experience in customer-facing technical roles, and the ability to communicate complex trade-offs clearly to both internal stakeholders and external clients.
What does a Forward Deployed Engineer earn?
Median $215000 from 45 postings across 23 companies.