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Apply locations Plano, TX time type Full time posted on Posted 4 Days Ago job requisition id JR-000197 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 19.5M users. 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. Position Overview:
Alkami is seeking a dynamic Principal Software Engineer to spearhead our design process from start to finish. Lead the charge in crafting architectural design patterns that align with our strategic product goals at the enterprise level. Showcase your deep technical domain knowledge by taking ownership of multiple enterprise product features, ensuring end-to-end excellence. As a key strategic player, you'll be instrumental in maintaining and enhancing these features. Our team is about doing it right and getting it done. Key Responsibilities & Duties:
Deliver highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant production applications using event-driven architectures powered by Kafka, Kinesis etc.
Build architecture design of event-driven, event-streaming and CDC-powered Database platforms for Alkami
Own the definition, design, development, delivery and quality for large feature sets, subsystems, or products
Help prevent and investigate production issues especially around our event-driven, event-streaming and CDC-powered database systems
Ensure architecture and design of systems follows best practices at Alkami
Influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility for our event-driven and streaming infrastructure which supports big-data processing
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
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 with deep experience in open telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, cloudwatch etc.
Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring and training other engineers, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning
Provide training, mentoring and support to internal teams
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
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math or engineering or equivalent work experience
Requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience in software development, or equivalent or 12 years and an advanced degree
Experience in FinTech, BankTech or the Banking industry is required.
Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, distributed architecture, and engineering best practices
Strong programming skills in an object-oriented language such as Java or C#, with proven work experience as a full stack developer
At least 7 year’s experience working in AWS cloud across multiple technologies such as Kubernetes, EC2, RDS, Aurora, CloudWatch, Terraform, ELB’s, EKS, ElasticCache, EMR and AWS Glue.
At least 7 years' experience working with RDBMS, e.g., Postgres, AWS Aurora, MySQL and NoSQL technologies including expertise with CDC, Debezium, Partitioning etc.
Deep experience working with Kafka, Spark and other big-data technologies
Deep experience with IoC frameworks such as Spring Boot etc
Highly proficient in API fundamentals and best practices, REST API architecture
Experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks like React and Angular, HTML, and CSS
Experience and familiarity with mobile application development.
Advanced experience developing and deploying applications for Cloud Native Infrastructure and following best practices, using CI/CD tools, Terraform, Gitlab, Open Telemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kubernetes etc
Deep Experience building applications in microservice 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
Proven ability to work cross-functionally, experience with planning and leading complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
Excellent leadership, written and verbal communication skills
In-depth understanding of the entire software development process (design, development and deployment)
Desired Skills:
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
Origination: Digital Account opening, Loan origination systems, KYC and onboarding
Card Management
Payments: ACH, NACHA, RTP and Wires
Fraud systems
Cores
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. 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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Apply locations Plano, TX time type Full time posted on Posted 4 Days Ago job requisition id JR-000197 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 19.5M users. 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. Position Overview:
Alkami is seeking a dynamic Principal Software Engineer to spearhead our design process from start to finish. Lead the charge in crafting architectural design patterns that align with our strategic product goals at the enterprise level. Showcase your deep technical domain knowledge by taking ownership of multiple enterprise product features, ensuring end-to-end excellence. As a key strategic player, you'll be instrumental in maintaining and enhancing these features. Our team is about doing it right and getting it done. Key Responsibilities & Duties:
Deliver highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant production applications using event-driven architectures powered by Kafka, Kinesis etc.
Build architecture design of event-driven, event-streaming and CDC-powered Database platforms for Alkami
Own the definition, design, development, delivery and quality for large feature sets, subsystems, or products
Help prevent and investigate production issues especially around our event-driven, event-streaming and CDC-powered database systems
Ensure architecture and design of systems follows best practices at Alkami
Influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility for our event-driven and streaming infrastructure which supports big-data processing
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
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 with deep experience in open telemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, cloudwatch etc.
Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring and training other engineers, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning
Provide training, mentoring and support to internal teams
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
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math or engineering or equivalent work experience
Requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience in software development, or equivalent or 12 years and an advanced degree
Experience in FinTech, BankTech or the Banking industry is required.
Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, distributed architecture, and engineering best practices
Strong programming skills in an object-oriented language such as Java or C#, with proven work experience as a full stack developer
At least 7 year’s experience working in AWS cloud across multiple technologies such as Kubernetes, EC2, RDS, Aurora, CloudWatch, Terraform, ELB’s, EKS, ElasticCache, EMR and AWS Glue.
At least 7 years' experience working with RDBMS, e.g., Postgres, AWS Aurora, MySQL and NoSQL technologies including expertise with CDC, Debezium, Partitioning etc.
Deep experience working with Kafka, Spark and other big-data technologies
Deep experience with IoC frameworks such as Spring Boot etc
Highly proficient in API fundamentals and best practices, REST API architecture
Experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks like React and Angular, HTML, and CSS
Experience and familiarity with mobile application development.
Advanced experience developing and deploying applications for Cloud Native Infrastructure and following best practices, using CI/CD tools, Terraform, Gitlab, Open Telemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kubernetes etc
Deep Experience building applications in microservice 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
Proven ability to work cross-functionally, experience with planning and leading complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
Excellent leadership, written and verbal communication skills
In-depth understanding of the entire software development process (design, development and deployment)
Desired Skills:
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
Origination: Digital Account opening, Loan origination systems, KYC and onboarding
Card Management
Payments: ACH, NACHA, RTP and Wires
Fraud systems
Cores
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. 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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