Principal 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 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.

• 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, cloud watch 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

• 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 Fin Tech, Bank Tech 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, Cloud Watch, Terraform, ELB's, EKS, Elastic Cache, EMR and AWS Glue.
• At least 7 years' experience working with RDBMS, e.g., Postgres, AWS Aurora, MySQL and No
  
  SQL 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, Cloud Watch,…