Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Alloy’s more than just a tech startup – we’re building the integration infrastructure that fast growing startups to Fortune 500’s in commerce rely on to launch and manage their integrations at scale. And our engineering team’s goal is to deliver an incredible experience for our customers, from brands like Burberry to companies like Gorgias and Amazon. 

You’ll have the opportunity to work on some unique challenges for our core products, and impact thousands of merchants and SaaS companies that rely on us for their day to day operations.

What you’ll be doing

• Build the best possible product that is performant, reliable, scalable and beautiful, working on diverse projects and collaborating with engineering teams across four countries (and growing)
• Solve complex problems and provide elegant solutions to our customers and app users which span across other engineers and product managers
• Learning new things and challenging yourself to architect and implement features for our iPaaS and automation products, workflow orchestration and analytics engine
• Build, debug and manage queues, schedule jobs, map data across different APIs and handle errors, and help solve big infrastructure and engineering challenges
• Create infrastructure and internal tooling to handle extremely high transaction volume (thousands of executions per minute)
• Teach and learn from those around you, providing constructive feedback and taking on feedback to help you grow
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge across all of Alloy 

Skills & experience we’re excited about

• Over 7 years of relevant software engineering experience, and building web applications at scale with Node, React, Typescript, JavaScript, AWS, containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
• And because we are building a complex platform that interfaces with 200+ API’s, we’re looking for folks who are up for big infrastructure and engineering challenges
• Have excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex issues, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions; proficient in debugging and troubleshooting techniques to diagnose and resolve issues in production systems
• Proficient in back-end development concepts, including server-side architecture, design and architectural pattern and best practices in software development, APIs, databases, and authentication/authorization mechanisms
• Experience running production systems including deploying, monitoring, and debugging; optimizing code, enhancing performance, and improving system scalability and reliability
• Understand the importance of security in software development and knowledgeable about common security vulnerabilities and best practices to mitigate them

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