Staff Software Engineer (MANTL)

Alkami Technology•Bentonville, AR

2d•$140,000 - $175,000•Remote

About The Position

The Staff Software Engineer is a senior individual contributor who sets technical direction and delivers complex, cross-team software capabilities across Alkami's digital banking platform. This role turns ambiguous product and business needs into scalable system designs, robust APIs, secure integrations, and intuitive experiences for financial institution administrators and digital banking users. The position partners with product, design, security, architecture, site reliability, data, and engineering teams to manage tradeoffs, improve reliability and developer effectiveness, and raise engineering standards through mentorship, reviews, and hands-on delivery. The Staff Software Engineer is accountable for code quality and operational outcomes while influencing without direct people-management responsibility.

Requirements

7-12 years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on delivery of complex production systems and technical leadership across multiple teams or domains.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.
Experience delivering complex production software and leading technical direction across teams or domains
Deep proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js, Python, Go, or similar backend languages, with the ability to work across the stack
Advanced system design across domain-driven design, microservices, REST APIs, distributed systems, data stores, and integrations
Strong discipline in testing, error handling, observability, performance, security, and maintainable delivery
Ability to influence without authority, communicate architecture clearly, and mentor engineers through reviews and hands-on guidance
Ability to turn ambiguity into pragmatic plans, manage cross-team dependencies, and drive measurable outcomes
Experience in Agile, iterative delivery and improving team practices through feedback and continuous learning

Nice To Haves

Experience in SaaS, FinTech, digital banking, payments, or another regulated technology environment
Experience with ReactJS, NestJS, or comparable frontend and backend frameworks
Experience designing third-party integrations for financial data, identity, or communications platforms
Experience with cloud platforms, containers, orchestration, infrastructure as code, or event-driven architecture

Responsibilities

Lead cross-team delivery across experiences, services, APIs, data, and integrations.
Turn ambiguous product and business needs into technical strategies, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
Set architecture across domains, document tradeoffs, and align teams on scalable, secure patterns.
Write and review tested code in TypeScript and Node.js, Python, Go, or similar languages.
Design secure APIs, domain models, microservices, workflows, and data contracts.
Build for reliability and performance using error handling, observability, capacity planning, graceful degradation, and recovery patterns.
Lead third-party integration design across authentication, privacy, data mapping, rate limits, retries, idempotency, monitoring, and vendor failures.
Drive cross-team execution by managing dependencies, sequencing work, reducing risk, and making timely decisions when tradeoffs are unclear.
Mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, documentation, and hands-on coaching.
Partner with product, design, security, architecture, site reliability, data, and engineering leaders to balance speed, experience, operability, and risk.
Lead incident response and root-cause analysis, driving prevention and operational readiness.
Improve engineering effectiveness through reusable patterns, automated tests, CI/CD, developer tooling, and secure, human-reviewed use of AI-assisted tools.