Principal Software Engineer

📋 Description

• • As a Principal Software Engineer at Alkami Technology, you will be at the forefront of designing, developing, and delivering sophisticated cloud-based digital banking solutions that empower financial institutions across the United States.
• • You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of digital banking by leading architectural design patterns and decisions, ensuring alignment with strategic product goals at the enterprise level.
• • This role demands deep technical domain knowledge and requires you to take full ownership of multiple enterprise product features from conception through to successful deployment and ongoing maintenance.
• • You will be instrumental in building highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant production applications that form the backbone of our clients' digital banking experiences.
• • A significant aspect of your responsibility will involve preventing and investigating production issues, ensuring the stability and reliability of our critical systems.
• • You will be a key strategic player, contributing to the maintenance of enterprise product features, including participating in on-call escalations, triaging complex problems, and implementing effective resolutions.
• • Your expertise will be crucial in defining, designing, developing, delivering, and ensuring the quality of large feature sets, subsystems, or entire products.
• • You will actively participate in the entire application lifecycle, with a strong focus on coding, debugging, and writing clean, efficient code to develop functional and robust applications.
• • Identifying system bottlenecks and optimizing performance will be a continuous effort, ensuring our platforms operate at peak efficiency.
• • You will collaborate closely with developers, designers, and system administrators to conceptualize and implement new features that enhance our product offerings.
• • A key responsibility includes managing and integrating cutting-edge technologies to improve and modernize our legacy applications, ensuring Alkami remains at the technological forefront.
• • You will be responsible for gathering and addressing both technical and design requirements, translating business needs into effective software solutions.
• • Setting up and maintaining environment configurations, along with diligently monitoring system health, will be essential for proactive issue management.
• • You will contribute to the growth of our engineering team by providing training and support to internal teams, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• • As a Technical Team Lead, you will mentor junior engineers, lead sprint planning sessions, delegate work effectively, and actively participate in project planning to ensure successful team execution.
• • You will be empowered to introduce and enhance tools that promote greater automation and operability of our services, streamlining development and deployment processes.
• • Interfacing with customers and other business stakeholders will be a regular part of your role, ensuring that the software products we deliver precisely meet their evolving needs.
• • You will play a critical role in establishing and maintaining high standards for the entire engineering organization, driving excellence in all aspects of software development.
• • This role offers the opportunity to influence the product roadmap significantly, taking ownership and responsibility for new, impactful projects that drive Alkami's strategic objectives.
• • You will leverage your experience in microservice architecture and an API-first mindset to build resilient and adaptable applications.
• • Your ability to collaborate effectively within an agile framework, coupled with a proactive problem-solving attitude and a willingness to explore diverse approaches, will be key to your success.
• • Excellent analytical and time management skills are essential, as is a proven ability to deliver cross-organizational impact independently.
• • You will demonstrate a proven ability to work cross-functionally, with extensive experience in planning and leading complicated technical projects involving multiple internal teams.
• • Your leadership, written, and verbal communication skills will be vital in articulating complex technical concepts and driving consensus across diverse teams and stakeholders.
• • You will contribute to a remote-first environment, collaborating with talented individuals across different geographies.
• • The role involves a deep dive into the entire software development process, from initial design and architecture through to development, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
• • You will be expected to champion best practices in performance, scalability, and distributed architecture, embedding these principles into the team's work.
• • This is an opportunity to work with a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider, recognized for its intentional culture and significant growth, and to make a tangible impact on the financial technology landscape.