Sr. Software Engineer

Alkami Technology is a digital sales and service platform provider for U.S. banks and credit unions. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive efforts in building software systems, participate in the design process, and maintain product features while ensuring smooth operations and effective communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• 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 web applications
• 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
• Provide 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
• Demonstrate self-sufficiency by independently managing tasks, problem-solving, and meeting deadlines, while adapting to new challenges without supervision
• Maintaining development standards within the team
• Champion an API-first approach software projects, ensuring seamless integration, scalability, and extensibility

Requirements:

• Requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience software development, or a related field; or 3 years and an advanced degree
• Strong programming skills in an object-oriented language such as Java or C#, with proven work experience as a full stack developer
• 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)
• 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 and product teams
• Experience in monitoring and supporting production systems, with proficiency in identifying and resolving issues, implementing proactive measures, and measurement tracking
• Experience optimizing system performance, including the ability to troubleshoot bottlenecks and implement performance improvements
• 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
• 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
• Ability to participate in on-call rotation to support Alkami's customers
• Experience working with SaaS offerings in the technology and financial industries
• Experience building and deploying applications on Amazon Web Services using Kubernetes
• Experience in Open telemetry
• Experience in cross platform mobile development frameworks like Flutter