The Sr Staff Software Engineer will lead and contribute to computer software systems, participating in the design process from beginning to end. Demonstrates deep technical domain knowledge of the company, including apps, services, systems, or frameworks. A key strategic player involved in maintenance of product features, including on call escalations, triaging and resolution.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
• Deliver highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant production applications.
• Help prevent and investigate production issues.
• Build architecture design, 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
• Lead developers, work with designers and product owners 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
• Respond promptly to on-call incidents, including troubleshooting and resolving critical disruptions to ensure minimal downtime

Recommended Experience & Education
Minimum Years of Experience

Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience; or 8 years and an
advanced degree

Education Level Bachelor's degree in engineering, or another related field or equivalent work experience

Knowledge, Skills, & Qualifications

Required
• Requires a minimum of 12 years of in software development related experience; or 8 years and an advanced degree
• Exceptional programming skills in an object-oriented language such as Java or C#, with proven work experience as a full stack developer
• Exceptional experience working with modern Javascript frameworks like React and Angular, HTML, and CSS
• Experience with mobile application development, using Native SDK or cross platform like Flutter.
• In-depth understanding of the entire software development process (design, development and deployment)
• Exceptional experience developing and deploying applications for Cloud Native Infrastructure
• Experience building applications in microservices 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
• Advanced experience building and deploying applications using Kubernetes
• Advanced experience in Open telemetry
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally, experience with planning and leading complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated experience providing technical input
• Ability to participate in on call rotation

Preferred
• Master's degree in engineering, technology or related field
• Experience working with SaaS offerings in the technology and financial industries
• Experience building and deploying applications on Amazon Web Services

Physical Demands
• Ability to lift a minimum of 5 pounds to a maximum of 10 pounds unassisted
• Ability to stand, sit, stoop, walk, stretch, reach, and use full range of body motions
• Manual dexterity as required for specific equipment
The salary range for this position is: $145,000 - $176,000

Cool Things to Know

Not Just Any Company: Alkami has an awesome diverse and inclusive environment. We have a FUN culture and offer great benefits, including remote-first environment, unlimited paid time off, 401(k) with employer match, and more.

Work Authorization: We cannot offer employment sponsorship at this time. Candidates must be eligible to work in the US for full-time employment.

Recruiters: We are not looking for outside recruiting firms to help us in this search. Thank you for understanding.

Pay Transparency: As of January 1, 2023, new states and locales have enacted pay equity laws that require more pay transparency by employers in the following states: California, Colorado (effective January 1, 2021), Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington.

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