Manager, Software Engineering

Alkami is hiring a Manager of Software Engineering, a cross-functional and autonomous position involved in coordinating tasks between various teams and departments (Engineering, QA, SRE, Release Management, Product, Architecture, Scrum Master) to ensure the high-quality delivery of software. This person should have a strong technical aptitude, a background in software development, strong problem-solving skills, and function as the “grease” to keep a complex system with a host of moving parts operating smoothly.

The Manager coaches and mentors software engineers to achieve personal and professional growth. They cultivate a collaborative, engaging, fast-paced, and result-oriented environment. This person is hands-on and engaged with their teams and responsible for the evaluation of individual and team performance metrics to maximize team efficiency. They can drive technical discussion/triage/research and help determine root cause analysis.

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams while constantly setting and communicating team priorities that support the broader organization's goals.
• Set clear expectations with individuals based on their level and role and aligned to the broader organization's goals.
• Meet regularly with individuals to discuss performance and development and provide feedback and coaching.
• Develop the mid-term technical vision and roadmap within the scope of your team(s).
• Evolve the technical roadmap to meet anticipated future requirements and infrastructure needs.
• Design, guide, and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Constantly review infrastructure metrics, SLA’s, quality metrics to ensure the right technical investments in the platform and its capabilities to meet current and future goals while optimizing costs.
• Work with Product Management to collaborate through creative brainstorming sessions and assist in writing requirements for technical debt.

Qualifications:

• 2 years of experience in a technology leadership role, with a proven track record of building and leading a high-performing team.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in software engineering with hands-on coding.
• Minimum of 2 years experience in FinTech, BankTech, or the Banking industry is required.
• Strong background in object-oriented programming such as .NET and JAVA.
• Strong experience building with an event-driven paradigm with at least 3 years experience working with streaming architectures.
• Strong experience working with eventing technologies such as SQS, SNS, Kafka, etc., in the cloud.
• Strong experience with Databases such as Postgres Aurora, DynamoDB, etc., with a passion for high-performance and high-throughput design.
• At least 3 years experience in building scalable systems that are operationally efficient in cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes.
• Strong experience working with messaging technologies, e.g., SNS, APN, FCM, Mailgun, etc., with a platform-oriented mindset.
• Demonstrated improved growth and leadership of successful teams over time.

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

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. ($139,036.00 - $208,554.00)

Alkami Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: Alkami is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Alkami are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Alkami will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Alkami encourages applicants of all ages.