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 18.6M users.As a remote-first company, this position can sit in Plano, TX or remote in the US.Alkami is seeking a highly skilled Sr Software Engineer to join our Product Engineering Money Movement team. The successful candidate will be experienced in designing and delivering reliable, scalable, and highly performant microservice to help support Alkami’s core banking infrastructure.We’re seeking an experienced engineer who has developed web applications and worked in a distributed, N-tier architecture environment to help us build the next generation of Alkami’s digital banking platform. Additionally, the Sr Software Engineer is responsible for collaborating with engineers throughout the development process. Our Developers work in an Agile environment and are passionate about creating a seamless user experience for our clients and their customers.Key Responsibilities & Duties:Collaborate with our product and engineering teams to identify areas for improvement and help drive the development of new features and functionality for our microservice architecture, Kubernetes infrastructure, and service communication/observability systems.Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, including performance, related to our microservices and Kubernetes systems, including debugging code to identify the root cause of issues.Drive architecture designs, product and technical design reviews and provide peer technical feedback in collaboration with other senior engineers.Responsible for creating performant, scalable, and reliable solutions, including providing technical guidance, best practices and code examples to other integrating teams.Document technical issues and resolutions in our knowledge base and communicate them to our customers and internal teams.Test-driven development while championing an API-first approach software projects, ensuring seamless integration, scalability, and extensibility.Set up and maintain environment configurations and monitor system health.Respond promptly to on-call incidents, including troubleshooting and resolving critical disruptions to ensure minimal downtime.Qualifications:Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field or equivalent work experience.5+ years of experience in software development, or a related field, or equivalent.Strong programming skills in an OOP language like Java or C#, or a functional language like Kotlin.Strong experience designing highly performant and scalable solutions with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes.Experience working with event-driven architecture at scale.Experience with microservice design.Experience with OpenTelemetry (or similar).Experience working with Database Systems and experience designing scalable solutions in RDBMS and NoSQL.Experience using PagerDuty to respond to critical incidents and participate in on-call rotation to support Alkami’s customers.Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical clients.Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to quickly diagnose and resolve technical issues.Experience providing technical leadership.Self-motivated and able to work independently as well as part of a team.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, integration tests.Desired Skills:Experience designing Kubernetes-native microservice architectures, with an emphasis on scalability and performance.Experience architecting and designing event-driven architectures at scale with industry best-practices such as alerting, monitoring etc.Experience working with and designing RESTful and/or gRPC APIs.Experience with AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure.Experience with NoSQL is a plus.Experience extending Kubernetes with operator and controller patterns is a plus.Experience working in the FinTech or Financial Services industry with a mindset of designing solutions to measure business performance.Cool Things to Know: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. [ 117,600-157,600 ]The Important Stuff: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.#LI-REMOTE

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