Senior Design Engineer

| New York, NY, USA | Hybrid
Employer Provided Salary: 169,000-199,000 Annually
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Alloy Is Where You Belong!

Alloy solves the identity risk problem for companies that offer financial products by enabling them to outpace fraud and confidently serve more people around the world. Banks 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, Get Scrappy, 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.  

Check out our investors and read more about us here.  

Design At Alloy

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. 

Design sits at the center of that mission. The complexity of compliance rules and the ever-evolving sophistication of fraudsters create a massive opportunity for Alloy to provide a single API and a powerful visual workflow builder that reduce risk and help fintechs and banks get to market faster. We provide policy owners, compliance officers, fraud investigators, and developers with the tools and data they need to spend more time building best in class products for their customers.

About The Role

We think of a Design Engineer as “a designer that codes”. 

At our current scale you’ll be able to look across the entire product surface from our dashboard to our consumer-facing SDK and help establish the patterns within our design system that makes us a category leader in banking infrastructure. This role is a great opportunity for you if you are a design engineer or have ever described yourself as a: creative technologist, UX engineer, design system engineer, product designer that codes, UI engineer, design technologist, or a design-oriented software engineer.

We consider design engineering to be at the center of the product development cycle, serving as a bridge between product, design, engineering, and the end user. It is a critical function that ensures we deliver experiences faithful to our designs, push the boundaries of what is possible, and iterate rapidly.

Our ultimate goal is to provide a delightful experience for our full gamut of users from internal engineering teams consuming our design system, technical account managers power-using our dashboard, client engineers implementing an Alloy solution, client policy makers and agents using Alloy in their day-to-day work, and our clients’ end customers interacting with our SDK.

Own our design system

  • You will help prioritize the most impactful areas of focus within the design system and contribute to our broader frontend strategy. 
  • You will collaborate with product designers to articulate design system principles and create world-class documentation, and increase the adoption of best practices across our full stack engineering teams. 
  • You will work with frontend engineers to contemplate the optimal component API and composition from both the designer and developer perspective.
  • You will help mitigate design debt by whatever means necessary—update interfaces with new components, contribute to developer tooling and linters, or slip easter eggs into our CI pipeline to discourage unwanted local overrides. 
  • You will leverage the design system to create the most accessible and delightful dashboard possible via browser performance optimization, responsive layouts, a11y best practices, and subtle animations/micro-interactions. 

Improve our client developer experience

  • You will craft consumer-facing experiences within Alloy’s embeddable SDK that remove friction from the fintech user experience.
  • You will build sample implementations that offer client engineering teams a playground during the sales and integration process.
  • You will create experiences to help our sales team demonstrate the power of Alloy’s platform.

Imagine the future of Alloy

  • You will help take brand new initiatives from 0 to 1, seeding your own ideas or prototyping with a designer to bring radical new concepts to life.
  • You will use your preferred toolkit to articulate and prototype complex interactions and translate those into production-ready code. 
  • You will help create leverage within our product organization by evangelizing adoption of frontend best practices, promoting broad component library usage, developing Figma plugins, linting tools, or CLI helpers, and generally improving our internal developer experience.
  • You will help tighten the feedback loop between product, design, and engineering by bridging any technical divide between functions, acting as a Rosetta stone of sorts.

About You

  • Advanced knowledge of Javascript/Typescript (React), modern HTML and CSS.
  • 5 or more years of relevant design and web front-end development or creative technology experience at a tech-forward, product-driven company.
  • Experience designing and building design systems that power complex dashboards including (but not limited to) data visualizations, information-heavy interfaces, or sensitive/high-risk data. 
  • A strong understanding of the formal elements of design beyond the web including typography, layout, balance, proportion, motion etc.

We Would Love To See

  • An online portfolio and links to example projects/libraries you’ve built.
  • Your resume and/or LinkedIn profile.
  • A short summary of a particularly successful project, focusing on how you solved an existing problem.
  • Why you’re interested in Alloy.

At Alloy, we strive to attract & retain talent by providing compensation that is competitive with other organizations of our size & stage. We are committed to ensuring each candidate has what they need to be successful in their role with a balanced range of compensation, equity, perks & benefits. We actively share our compensation philosophy with employees, with the goal of fostering open and honest dialogue. Finally, we work to administer our philosophy and drive consistency in order to promote equity and monitor the fairness of each outcome.

The following range is based on the scoped level within the organization and only for highly targeted geographies: $169,000 -$199k

Benefits and Perks

  • 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
  • Learning & Development annual stipend
  • Well-being benefits include access to OneMedical, Headspace, and more

How To Apply

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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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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
  • Sales & Marketing
    • JavascriptLanguages
    • PythonLanguages
    • RLanguages
    • SqlLanguages
    • ReactLibraries
    • DjangoFrameworks
    • Node.jsFrameworks
    • PostgreSQLDatabases
    • RedisDatabases
    • Google AnalyticsAnalytics
    • SisenseAnalytics
    • IllustratorDesign
    • InVisionDesign
    • PhotoshopDesign
    • SketchDesign
    • TrelloManagement
    • NotionManagement
    • SalesforceCRM
    • SendGridEmail
    • MarketoLead Gen

Location

Located in a perfect spot downtown, Alloy HQ is in the midst of all that NYC has to offer with endless lunch spots, things to do, and plenty of happy hour options. We're a 3-minute walk from Union Sq, a central hub for convenient commutes.

An Insider's view of Alloy

What’s the vibe like in the office?

The best way I can describe it is a silly encouraging family who happens to love KYC. I am surrounded by supportive, brilliant co-workers, who are all very much themselves with an undisputed passion for the company as well as a leadership team that genuinely cares about the well being of their employees.

Leigh

Software Engineer

What's the biggest problem your team is solving?

Basic financial services should be safe and seamless for EVERYONE to sign up for. With every client my team (sales) brings on, we’re making financial products more accessible.

Monica

Senior Mgr Business Dev (Partnerships)

What makes someone successful on your team?

Curiosity and grit will set you up for success on our team! When I joined Alloy, I learned about the relationship between identity and bank applications. From there, I created a knowledge base for clients, and today I manage our support team.

William

Manager, Client Support

What is your vision for the company?

Alloy wants to enable fair, safe and seamless financial services for better identity decisions and more inclusive banking.

Laura

Chief Revenue Officer

How do you empower your team to be more creative?

One of Alloy’s values is to “be bold”. This helps the team to have a go-getter, proactive attitude towards challenges big and small as we scale. We also feel supported by our team to try out new strategies, set 1:1 time with SME's across the org. for advice, and be encouraged to fail because we learn so much and grow in that experience.

Priscilla

Sr Tech Recruiter

What are Alloy Perks + Benefits

Alloy Benefits Overview

Perks & Benefits
- Unlimited PTO plan encourages team members to take time off so they come back refreshed
- FSA/FSA Dependent/HSA with $100/mo employer contribution
- Premium medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents
- Care Teams that provide integration of COVID-19 screening and testing, 24/7 primary care both virtually and in person in our offices, mental health, benefits navigation and more
- $200 matching donations for employee's choice of non-profit
- $250 home office stipend to get your remote working environment up to par
- $150/mo wellness benefits contribution to spend as you'd like on gym memberships or ClassPass
- $50/mo employee appreciation fund - spend it on anything from groceries, wfh supplies, netflix, spotify, etc.
- $1000/yr annual Learning & Development stipend - for anything that will make you better at what you do.
- $5,000 employee referral program ($1,000 charitable donation to employee's choice of a non-profit + $4,000 directly to the employee)
- Free therapy sessions through our healthcare partners for every team member to support your mental health
- Up to 16 weeks parental leave options and support in returning to work
- Flexible work hours to accommodate your needs
- Memorable team events, retreats, and off sites throughout the year like visiting a goat sanctuary bee farm, plant propagating class
- In office Mother's rooms
- In office massages to help relax
- Conveniently located office (New York’s Union Square)
- Pet-friendly work environment
- And oh so many snacks & beverages

Culture
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Hybrid work model
Employee awards
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Our remote work program includes work from home until at least 2021
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Inclusive candidate experiences Hiring and unconscious bias training
Health Insurance + Wellness
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Alloy's team fitness initiatives include weekly remote workout or yoga sessions.
Mental health benefits
Four free therapy sessions!
Wellness days
Abortion travel benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Alloy's 401(k) retirement plan offers a broad selection of stocks, bonds and international index funds to choose from with low expense ratios and fees.
401(K) matching
Alloy provides employees with a 401(k) matching plan. We match 100% of contributions up to 4% of an employee's annual gross pay.
Company equity
Alloy offers stock options, including vesting over a three-year period with a standard one year cliff.
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Alloy matches up to $200 per employee charitable contributions.
Pay transparency
Child Care & Parental Leave
Generous parental leave
We provide up to 16 weeks of parental leave for the primary caretaker. Alloy. also provides 16 weeks of leave for the secondary caretaker.
Family medical leave
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Vacation + Time Off
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Employees receive 40 hours per year of paid sick leave.
Flexible time off
Bereavement leave benefits
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Alloy has a fully stocked kitchen including unlimited snacks, coffee, tea and all of the flavored LaCroix + Spindrift you can handle.
Some meals provided
We provide free breakfast on Monday. Employees get free lunch on Monday, Wednesday.
Company-sponsored happy hours
Happy hours are hosted once per month with memorable events throughout the month held virtually.
Onsite office parking
We offer employees parking for bikes in our office!
Pet friendly
Alloy's pet policy is dog friendly daily
Relocation assistance
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
$500 no questions asked stipend
Mother's room
Professional Development
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Continuing education stipend
We offer $1000 annually for continuing education.
Customized development tracks

Additional Perks + Benefits

Our culture and community supports team members to feel appreciated, motivated, and pride in their work. Alloy works tirelessly to provide team members with meaningful and thoughtful benefits & perks whether if it is to support those big moments in life like birthdays, anniversaries or new additions to the family or to celebrate company milestone like our recent Series B raise! We love to show gratitude for hard work and successes through things like CEO Care Packages, a shoutout in the #props slack channel or by an Executive Leader in company-wide meetings for a job well done, pick me up gestures, and other fun surprises. We care a lot about our team members, which is why we also conduct an annual survey to assess our benefits offerings. Because of that, we're continuously making improvements to things like our health insurance plans, 401k matching program, or HSA employer monthly contributions to name a few. In addition, every employee receives stock options in the company sharing in the company's success.

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