Role Description

The Principal Engineer will build computer software systems, participating in the design process from beginning to end. Leads architectural design patterns and decisions to achieve our strategic product goals at the enterprise level. Demonstrates deep technical domain knowledge and ownership of multiple enterprise product features end-to-end. A key strategic player involved in maintenance of enterprise product features, including on-call escalations, triaging, and resolution.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Own the definition, design, development, delivery and quality for large feature sets, subsystems, or products.
• Deliver highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant production applications.
• Help prevent and investigate production issues.
• Build architecture design, ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems, 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience in software development, or equivalent or 12 years and an advanced degree.
• 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.
• Experience working with modern Javascript frameworks like React and Angular, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience and familiarity with mobile application development.
• Proficient in API fundamentals and best practices, REST API architecture.
• In-depth understanding of the entire software development process (design, development and deployment).
• Advanced experience developing and deploying applications for Cloud Native Infrastructure, using CI/CD tools following best practices.
• 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.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in engineering, technology or related field (preferred).
• Experience working with SaaS offerings in the technology and financial industries (preferred).

Benefits

• Remote-first environment.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• 401(k) with employer match.

Company Description

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.

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).

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.