Staff Software Engineer

Alkami Technology is a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions in the United States. The Staff Software Engineer will drive the architectural vision and execution of high-scale computer software systems within the Money Movement LOB, ensuring the reliability of global currency transactions while mentoring the team and aligning technical decisions with product strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Lead code/design reviews to ensure smooth daily operations and accurate planning
• Lead the design and definition of Event-Driven Architectures (EDA) and asynchronous queuing mechanisms to support complex money movement
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Manage performance at scale, ensuring the system reliably processes high-volume bursts (up to 1,000 concurrent wires) without data loss
• 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
• Lead 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
• Exemplary self-sufficiency by independently managing tasks, problem-solving, and meeting deadlines, while adapting to new challenges without supervision
• Establishing and 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 8 years of related experience in software development, or a related field; or 6 years and an advanced degree
• Expert-level proficiency in .NET/C# with a deep understanding of Microservices and Kubernetes orchestration
• Strong programming skills in an object-oriented language such as Java or C#, with proven work experience as a full stack developer
• Strong 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)
• Deep knowledge of the AWS ecosystem, cloud-native tooling, and the scaling of high-stakes financial applications
• 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, product teams, and wider organization initiatives
• Proven experience in monitoring and supporting production systems, with proficiency in identifying and resolving issues, implementing proactive measures, and measurement tracking
• Advanced experience optimizing system performance, including the ability to troubleshoot bottlenecks and implement performance improvements
• Advanced experience in SQL and NoSQL databases, coupled with caching mechanisms. Includes designing data structures, optimizing, and maintaining systems, as well as effective caching strategies to enhance performance and responsiveness
• Deep understanding and practical application of REST API best practices. Proficiency in adhering to standards, ensuring security, scalability, and optimal performance
• Advanced strategies for developing tests including unit tests, UI automation tests, integration tests
• Experience building and deploying applications using Kubernetes
• Experience in Open telemetry
• Ability to participate in on call rotation
• 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 using Kubernetes
• Experience in cross platform mobile development frameworks like Flutter