Senior Software Engineer, Product

Alloy

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $166,000–$209,000 / yr
Posted: 81 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 10 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $166,000–$207,500 across 10 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Product

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The Senior Software Engineer, Product joins the Build - Oak team within the Decisioning vertical to develop the core engine powering risk evaluation for financial institutions. You will design and ship performant Postgres queries and Node.js APIs for a decision engine that handles real-time SLA constraints. Responsibilities include owning systems for managing large-scale lists on OpenSearch, building AI features using AWS Bedrock, and utilizing async tools like SQS and webhooks. You will translate ambiguous stakeholder requests into generalizable features while ensuring reliability across millions of records. The role requires expertise in TypeScript, SQL optimization, and backend service ownership. You will solve technical problems related to fraud prevention, automated account flagging, and providing AI-driven explanations for manual review cases throughout the customer lifecycle.

What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?

Median $216000 from 270 postings across 57 companies.

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Skills

Node.js TypeScript SQL AWS Bedrock OpenSearch Elasticsearch SQS Webhooks LLMs React APIs System Design Data Pipelines

What you'll do

Design and ship performant Postgres queries and Node.js APIs for the core decision engine.
Own end-to-end systems for managing client lists of people, accounts, or countries on OpenSearch.
Build and extend AI features using AWS Bedrock, SQS, and webhooks to explain flagged cases.
Translate ambiguous requests from internal stakeholders and customers into scoped, generalizable features.
Partner on system design decisions to support new enterprise-scale rollouts.
Optimize database query plans and indexing to meet real-time SLA constraints.

What we're looking for

5+ years of professional software engineering experience with real ownership of backend services in production.
Hands-on experience writing and optimizing SQL, including reasoning about query plans and indexing.
Production experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
Ability to gather requirements from ambiguous asks and talk directly with internal stakeholders or customers to clarify scope.
Experience with OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or a similar search and indexing system at scale (preferred).
Experience integrating LLMs into a production feature using Bedrock or a similar platform (preferred).
Fintech, banking, or other regulated industry experience (preferred).
React or similar frontend experience (preferred).

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