[Remote] Sr Staff Software Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alkami Technology is a digital sales and service platform provider for U.S. banks and credit unions, offering SaaS solutions for onboarding, digital banking, data, and marketing. The Sr Staff Software Engineer will lead the design, development, operation, and modernization of scalable cloud-native applications while influencing architecture and product roadmaps, mentoring engineers, and resolving production incidents.
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
Skills
- Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of 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
- 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
Benefits
- Remote-first environment
- Unlimited paid time off
- 401(k) with employer match
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