Sr Staff Software Engineer

Alkami Technology is a digital sales and service platform provider for U.S. banks and credit unions. The Sr Staff Software Engineer will lead the design, development, deployment, maintenance, and optimization of scalable cloud-native software systems, while mentoring engineers, shaping technical strategy, and supporting production operations.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant production applications
• Help prevent and investigate production issues
• 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
• Establishing and maintaining standards for the engineering organization
• Respond promptly to on-call incidents, including troubleshooting and resolving critical disruptions to ensure minimal downtime

Requirements:

• Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience; or 8 years and an advanced degree
• Education Level Bachelor's degree in engineering, or another related field or equivalent work experience
• Requires a minimum of 12 years of in software development related experience; or 8 years and an advanced degree
• Marketing technology (MarTech) experience, specifically regarding cookies and platform integrations, is mandatory
• Backend stack requires Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, and Hibernate, with Python usage restricted to basic scripting
• AWS expertise required, specifically with EKS, Cognito, and batch jobs
• Experience in Vue.js ( or React), with the ability to lead modernization efforts from

AngularJS

• 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
• Drives and expands AI-assisted engineering strategies, optimizing developer workflows, guiding complex modernization initiatives, and advancing prompt and context engineering standards
• Ability to lift a minimum of 5 pounds to a maximum of 10 pounds unassisted
• Ability to stand, sit, stoop, walk, stretch, reach, and use full range of body motions
• Manual dexterity as required for specific equipment
• Master's degree in engineering, technology or related field
• Experience working with SaaS offerings in the technology and financial industries
• Experience building and deploying applications on Amazon Web Services