Manager, Engineering (Partnerships)

Alkami

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Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$153,000–$191,000 / yr
Posted
57 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $218k
This role $172k
$140k most similar roles pay here $277k

This role pays less than 82% of similar roles. Most pay $183,023–$253,775 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $172k versus about $218k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Alkami

Alkami Technology is a cloud-based digital banking solutions provider offering retail and business banking platforms to credit unions and banks to help them compete with larger financial institutions. Industry: Financial Technology & Digital Banking

Alkami currently has 47 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $129,000–$162,500 across 44 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Manager, Engineering (Partnerships)

Manager, Engineering (Partnerships) serves as a hybrid player-coach leading a team focused on delivering integrations, identity verification, and account opening infrastructure to connect financial institutions with members. This role involves managing full-stack and backend engineers while overseeing the entire application lifecycle, including KYC decisioning, funding pipelines, and public API platforms. The manager will drive technical delivery across domains like SAML/OIDC authentication, payment systems, and third-party integrations with partners such as Plaid and BioCatch. Candidates must possess expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, Python, REST APIs, and relational databases like Postgres. The role addresses the critical challenge of building reliable, scalable software for regulatory-adjacent workflows within a digital banking environment. By balancing technical leadership with people management, the manager ensures high code quality, mentors engineers, and translates complex product requirements into maintainable technical plans to support institutional growth.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Remote?

Median $235250 from 43 postings across 20 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Manage, mentor, and grow a team of full-stack and backend engineers across multiple product verticals.
  • Lead technical decision-making regarding system architecture, platform migrations, and strategic technical spikes.
  • Partner with Product teams to shape roadmaps, prioritize trade-offs, and define scope for quarterly planning.
  • Drive the delivery of core infrastructure including identity verification, SSO, and public API platforms.
  • Maintain high standards for engineering quality through code reviews, test coverage, and incident retrospectives.
  • Serve as the primary engineering point of contact to triage and resolve escalated customer issues.
  • Translate complex product requirements into clear technical plans and provide realistic risk assessments.
  • Oversee the reliability, scalability, and security of customer-facing and regulatory-adjacent workflows.

What we're looking for

  • Candidates must be eligible to work in the U.S. for full-time employment.
  • Must have at least 8 years of software engineering experience with a strong hands-on technical foundation.
  • Must have at least 2 years of experience in a technology leadership role leading and building teams.
  • Requires proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, Python, API development, event-driven systems, and relational databases like Postgres.
  • Must possess strong system design and architecture skills to communicate trade-offs and guide teams through ambiguity.
  • Requires experience building backend services and APIs with a solid understanding of REST and microservice architectures.
  • Must demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills to translate product requirements into technical plans.
  • Must be capable of performing as a player-coach, balancing technical leadership, code reviews, and mentoring.

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