About the position
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. The Senior Software Engineer will drive efforts and contribute to building computer software systems, participating in the design process from beginning to end. Demonstrates deep technical domain knowledge of the company, including apps, services, systems, or frameworks. A key strategic player involved in maintenance of product features, including on call escalations, triaging and resolution.
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 software projects, ensuring seamless integration, scalability, and extensibility.
Requirements
- Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience; or 3 years and an advanced degree
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or another related field or equivalent work experience
- 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 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 measurement 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
- Understanding and practical application of REST API best practices
- Developing tests including unit tests, UI automation tests, integration tests
- Ability to participate in on-call rotation to support Alkami’s customers
Nice-to-haves
- 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
Benefits
- Remote-first environment
- Unlimited paid time off
- 401(k) with employer match
