Sr Staff Software Engineer

Alkami Technology • Plano, TX

344d • $142,400 - $213,600

About The Position

Alkami is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our Engineering team. We're looking for dynamic and innovative individuals ready to lead and contribute to computer software systems, playing a pivotal role in the design process from inception to completion. The team mainly utilizes C#/.NET for backend development and Vue.js for frontend with some legacy projects in Ext.js. Strong proficiency in C# is highly desired. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Alkami, you'll showcase profound technical domain expertise within our company, encompassing apps, services, systems, and frameworks. You'll be a key strategic player, deeply involved in maintaining product features, elevating our capabilities in AWS development, handling on-call escalations, and efficiently triaging and resolving issues to ensure seamless operations. This role offers an exciting opportunity to drive innovation and shape the future of digital banking solutions. If you're passionate about leveraging your skills to make a significant impact in the fintech industry, then we invite you to join our team and be part of our journey toward excellence.

Requirements

• 12+ years of in software development related experience; or 8 years and an advanced degree
• Masters in computer science or related field
• Exceptional programming skills in an object-oriented language such as Java or C#, with proven work experience as a full stack developer
• Exceptional experience working with modern Javascript frameworks like React and Angular, HTML, and CSS
• Experience with mobile application development, using Native SDK or cross platform like Flutter
• In-depth understanding of the entire software development process (design, development and deployment)
• Exceptional experience developing and deploying applications for Cloud Native Infrastructure
• Experience building applications in microservices architecture with API-first mindset
• Collaborates effectively within the agile framework with a problem-solving attitude and willing to take a variety of approaches
• Excellent analytical and time management skills, with a proven ability to deliver cross-organization impact independently
• Advanced experience building and deploying applications using Kubernetes
• Advanced experience in Open telemetry
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally, experience with planning and leading complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated experience providing technical input
• Ability to participate in on call rotation
• Minimum of 2 years experience in FinTech, BankTech or the Banking industry is required

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with SaaS offerings in the technology and financial industries
• Experience building and deploying applications on Amazon Web Services
• Origination: Digital Account opening, Loan origination systems, KYC and onboarding
• Card Management
• Payments: ACH, NACHA, RTP and Wires
• Fraud systems
• Cores

Responsibilities

• Lead the out of OLA bug portfolio prioritization along with other engineering leaders and their teams to help set the strategy and build OLA compliance road map for the teams
• Lead the analysis of Production escape defects and formulate strategy for bug burn down and reduction of Escape defects
• Help prevent and investigate production issues
• Deliver highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant production applications
• Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects
• Lead code/design reviews to ensure smooth daily operations and accurate planning
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional applications
• Identify bottlenecks in systems and optimize performance
• Lead developers, work with designers and product owners to identify new features
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Set up and maintain environment configurations and monitor system health
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning
• Introduce and enhance tools to allow greater automation and operability of services
• Interface with customers and other business stakeholders to effectively deliver software products that meet their needs
• Establish and maintain standards for the engineering organization
• Respond promptly to on-call incidents, including troubleshooting and resolving critical disruptions to ensure minimal downtime

Benefits

• Remote-first environment
• Unlimited paid time off
• 401(k) with employer match

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: Master's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees