Engineering Manager, Data Partner Integrations

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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.

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About the team

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Data Partner Integrations team within the Connections organization. Alloy partners with hundreds of data vendors that perform work across identity verification, fraud mitigation and many others. To scale this out, Alloy is building the next generation integration platform, which will make it easy to build, operate and maintain data integrations. 

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will lead the development of enterprise-scale third party data and product integrations supporting our client use cases and leading the third-party marketplace efforts. You will own the technical and strategic vision for our data and product partner infrastructure, ensuring it meets current and future needs for scale and interoperability. Your work will involve continuously improving our integration architecture and monitoring at scale. 

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

What you'll be doing

The Engineering Manager's responsibility is primarily their team. They will balance three key responsibilities: recruiting and hiring great people, developing and mentoring each person that reports to them, and assisting the team in building and shipping the best product..

As the Engineering Manager, you will:

• Recruit, hire, develop, and mentor team members, holding weekly 1:1s and supporting their professional development.
• Create, track, and manage engineering team metrics and KPIs, following the principles of Accelerate's "Four Key Metrics."
• Work closely with partnerships, internal and external stakeholders, and other key teams across the company.
• Communicate technical and product decisions to the right people, resolve blocking issues, and keep our development machine humming
• Establish and manage governance around release, deployment, monitoring, and testing to maintain high-quality integration standards.
• Drive the technical and strategic vision for our data integration infrastructure to meet future scalability and interoperability needs of hundreds of data partners.
• Support team happiness and productivity, embodying our values: collaborate, be bold, get scrappy, and celebrate our differences.

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Data Partner Integrations team. In this role, you’ll have the agency to improve our integrations platform and lead data marketplace initiatives. An ideal candidate possesses:

• 8+ years in engineering with at least 3 years in an engineering leadership position.
• A track record of successful projects demonstrating a commitment to product excellence and client impact.
• Experience working with data product vendors for API, SDK integrations and digital marketplaces.
• Experience scaling process and infrastructure, with feedback and insights from internal and external stakeholders.
• Technical leadership:
• Deep technical background in software development with intermediate-to-expert skills in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node, and exposure to Python. 
• Ability to lead thorough code reviews and help engineers solve bugs.
• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure and experience with highly scalable and highly available application architectures.
• Experience leading sprint planning, goal based project trac