Senior Staff Software Engineer

Alkami

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 47 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today

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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 56 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Software Engineer

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The Sr Staff Software Engineer will join the engineering team to lead and contribute to complex computer software systems, participating in the full design process from beginning to end. This role involves building highly scalable, fault-tolerant production applications, managing architecture design, and leading code reviews. Key responsibilities include mentoring developers, managing on-call escalations, and optimizing system performance within a microservices architecture. The candidate must utilize a backend stack of Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, and Hibernate, alongside Python for basic scripting. Required expertise includes AWS (EKS, Cognito, batch jobs), Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, and Vue.js or React for modernization from AngularJS. The role specifically addresses MarTech platform integrations and cookies, solving technical challenges within a digital sales and service platform for financial institutions.

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Skills

Java Kotlin Spring Boot Hibernate Python AWS EKS Cognito Kubernetes Vue.js React AngularJS Microservices Open telemetry MarTech SaaS Cloud Native Infrastructure

What you'll do

Deliver highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant production applications.
Design system architecture and influence the product roadmap for new projects.
Write clean code to develop functional applications and manage the entire application lifecycle.
Identify system bottlenecks and optimize performance for legacy and modern applications.
Lead developers through code reviews, sprint planning, and work delegation.
Respond to on-call incidents by troubleshooting and resolving critical production disruptions.
Introduce automation tools and maintain environment configurations to monitor system health.
Drive AI-assisted engineering strategies to optimize developer workflows and modernization initiatives.

What we're looking for

Requires a minimum of 12 years of software development experience, or 8 years with an advanced degree.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field is required, or equivalent work experience.
Mandatory experience in marketing technology (MarTech), specifically regarding cookies and platform integrations.
Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, and Hibernate is required for the backend stack.
Required expertise in AWS, specifically with EKS, Cognito, and batch jobs.
Experience in Vue.js or React with the ability to lead modernization efforts from AngularJS is required.
Advanced experience building and deploying applications using Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry is required.
Candidates must be eligible to work in the US for full-time employment.

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