Senior Staff Software Engineer

Role Description

The Sr Staff Software Engineer will lead and contribute to 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.

• 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.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience; or 10 years and an advanced degree.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or another related field or equivalent work experience.

Requirements

• Requires a minimum of 12 years of software development related experience; or 8 years and an advanced degree.
• Exceptional programming skills in C#, with proven work experience as a full stack developer.
• Exceptional experience working with modern Javascript frameworks like React and Angular, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience with mobile application development, using Native SDK or cross platform like Flutter.
• 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.

Benefits

• Remote-first environment.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Diverse and inclusive culture.

Company Description

Alkami is the digital sales and service platform provider for U.S. banks and credit unions. Our unified Platform integrates onboarding, digital banking, and data and marketing—each solution can stand alone, but together they deliver more—to help institutions onboard, engage, and grow relationships.

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).

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.