Software Engineer

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.

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Alkami is seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer to join our Software Tooling and DevSecOps team. The successful candidate will have experience designing and delivering reliable, scalable, and highly performant microservice and event-driven architectures leveraging Kubernetes for container orchestration, as well as DevSecOps tooling to handle build and deploy pipelines.

We're seeking an experienced engineer who has developed web and API applications and worked in a distributed, N-tier architecture environment to help us build the next generation of Alkami's digital banking platform. Our Developers work in an Agile environment and are passionate about creating a seamless user experience for our clients and their customers.

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• Contribute to new features and functionality for our microservice architecture, Kubernetes infrastructure, and service communication/observability systems.
• Build and maintain tools for use by our development teams for the DevSecOps pipelines which build and deploy the Alkami platform, specializing in the microservice tier.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, including performance, related to our microservices and Kubernetes systems, including debugging code to identify the root cause of issues.
• Create performant, scalable, and reliable solutions, including providing technical guidance, best practices and code examples to other integrating teams.
• Support an "inner source" model for development, enabling contributions from other development teams, while maintaining governance over the core platform.
• Document technical issues and resolutions in our knowledge base and communicate them to our customers and internal teams.
• Test-driven development while championing an API-first approach software projects, ensuring seamless integration, scalability, and extensibility.
• Set up and maintain environment configurations and monitor system health
• Participate in on-call rotation and respond promptly to on-call incidents, including troubleshooting and resolving critical disruptions to ensure platform availability

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field or equivalent work experience.
• 2-4 years of experience in software development or a related field and experience working within Agile framework.
• Strong programming skills in an object oriented / functional programming language such as Java, C#, Golang, Python, Kotlin et al with proven work experience as a full-stack developer.
• Experience designing performant and scalable solutions with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes
• Experience building components and pipelines as part of a DevSecOps framework to support CI/CD for cloud-native applications
• Experience with database frameworks such as NoSQL, SQL Databases, Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks
• Experience supporting production systems, including identifying issues through monitoring, troubleshooting and resolving issues, and implementing proactive measures through alerting on key performance metrics and defensive coding
• Self-motivated and able to work independently as well as part of a team, with good analytical and time management skills, a bias towards action, and ability to rapidly learn new technologies and solutions to deliver value with some assistance
• 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
• Understanding of the entire software development process (design, development and deployment)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated experience providing technical input
• Ability to participate in on call rotation

Desired Skills:

• Experience with OpenTelemetry (or similar)
• Experience designing Kubernetes-native microservice architectures, with an emphasis on scalability and performance
• Experience architecting and designing event-driven architectures
• Experience working with and designing RESTful and/or gRPC APIs
• Experience with AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure
• Experience working with SaaS offerings in the technology and financial industries

The salary range for this position is $92,000 to $138,000

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.

Pay Transparency: As of January 1, 2023, new states and locales have enacted pay equity laws that require more pay transparency by employers in the following states: California, Colorado (effective January 1, 2021), Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington.

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.

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J.D. Power 2024 Mobile App Platform Certification ProgramSM recognition is based on successful completion of an audit and exceeding a customer experience benchmark through a survey of recent servicing interactions. For more information, visit jdpower.com/awards.