Sr Software Engineer

Alkami is a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions in the United States that helps clients to transform through retail and business banking, digital account opening and loan origination, payment fraud prevention, and data analytics and engagement solutions. Alkami’s Mobile App Platform has been certified by J.D. Power for providing clients with “An Outstanding Mobile Banking Platform Experience.”

Founded in 2009, we continue to be recognized for our intentional culture and tremendous growth (Best Place to Work in Fintech; Best & Brightest to Work For Nationally; and Comparably’s Best Company Culture, Best Career Growth, Best Engineering Team, and Best Places to Work in Dallas, among others). Through our bold investments in technology and people, we empower our clients to grow confidently, adapt quickly, and build thriving digital banking communities through tailored experiences for over 19.5M users.

As a remote-first company, most of our positions can be remote in the US, except for key roles, which will be indicated in the Job Title.

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Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• 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 web applications

• Advanced troubleshooting and debugging

• Perform UI tests to optimize performance

• Liaise with developers, designers, and system administrators 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

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use

• Provide training and support to internal teams

• Enhance development tools, test coverage, and/or code structure

• Provide mentoring and technical support to junior engineers

• Respond promptly to on-call incidents, including troubleshooting and resolving critical disruptions to ensure minimal downtime

• Maintain clear and proactive communication with customers and vendors to ensure a positive, collaborative relationship

• Demonstrate self-sufficiency by independently managing tasks, problem-solving, and meeting deadlines, while adapting to new challenges without supervision.

• Maintaining development standards within the team

• Champion an API-first approach to software projects, ensuring seamless integration, scalability, and extensibility.

Recommended Experience & Education
Minimum Years of Experience

Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience, or 3 years and an
advanced degree

Education Level Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or another related field or equivalent work experience

Knowledge, Skills, & Qualifications

Required

• Requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience in software development, or a related field; or 3 years and an advanced degree

• Strong programming skills in an object-oriented language such as Java or C#, with proven work experience as a full-stack developer

• Experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks like React and Angular, HTML, and CSS

• In-depth understanding of the entire software development process (design, development and deployment)

• Experience developing and deploying applications for Cloud Native Infrastructure

• Collaborates effectively within the agile framework with a problem-solving attitude and is willing to take a variety of approaches

• Excellent analytical and time management skills, with a proven ability to deliver value independently

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated experience providing technical input

• Proven ability to work cross-functionally with engineering and product teams

• Experience in monitoring and supporting production systems, with proficiency in identifying and resolving issues, implementing proactive measures, and tracking.

• Experience optimizing system performance, including the ability to troubleshoot bottlenecks and implement performance improvements

• Experience in SQL and NoSQL databases, coupled with caching mechanisms. Includes designing data structures, optimizing, and maintaining systems, as well as effective caching strategies to enhance performance and responsiveness.

• Understanding and practical application of REST API best practices. Proficiency in adhering to standards, ensuring security, scalability, and optimal performance

• Developing tests, including unit tests, UI automation tests, and integration tests

• Ability to participate in on-call rotation to support Alkami’s customers
   

Preferred

• Experience working with SaaS offerings in the technology and financial industries

• Experience building and deploying applications on Amazon Web Services using Kubernetes

• Experience in Open telemetry

• Experience in cross platform mobile development frameworks like Flutter

• Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems and concepts, including OAuth, SAML, session management, and various authentication methods (e.g., MFA, step-up authentication).

• Proficiency in .NET development, with a strong emphasis on back-end services for high-availability systems.

• Practical experience with relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL in a production environment.

• Prior experience developing or supporting applications within the Online Banking (OLB) domain, particularly those focused on identity verification and risk mitigation.

• Familiarity with financial industry risk systems and critical transaction processing.

Not Just Any Company: Alkami has an awesome diverse and inclusive environment. We have a FUN culture and offer great benefits, including remote-first environment, unlimited paid time off, 401(k) with employer match, and more.

Work Authorization: We cannot offer employment sponsorship at this time. Candidates must be eligible to work in the US for full-time employment.

Recruiters: We are not looking for outside recruiting firms to help us in this search. Thank you for understanding.

Pay Transparency: As of January 1, 2023, new states and locales have enacted pay equity laws that require more pay transparency by employers in the following states: California, Colorado (effective January 1, 2021), Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington.

Alkami Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: Alkami is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Alkami are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Alkami will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Alkami encourages applicants of all ages.

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J.D. Power 2024 Mobile App Platform Certification ProgramSM recognition is based on successful completion of an audit and exceeding a customer experience benchmark through a survey of recent servicing interactions. For more information, visit jdpower.com/awards.