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Alkami Technology · 1 day ago

Principal Software Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

15+ years exp

Alkami Technology is a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions in the United States. They are seeking a dynamic Principal Software Engineer to lead the design process and take ownership of multiple enterprise product features while ensuring end-to-end excellence.

BankingCreditFinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechSaaSSoftware

No H1B

Responsibilities

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, cloudwatch 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

Qualification

AWS CloudEvent-driven architectureMicroservice architectureFull stack developmentBig-data technologiesJavaC#API fundamentalsKubernetesRDBMSAnalytical skillsLeadershipTime managementCommunication skillsProblem-solving attitude

Required

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 FinTech, BankTech 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, CloudWatch, Terraform, ELB's, EKS, ElasticCache, EMR and AWS Glue

At least 7 years experience working with RDBMS, e.g., Postgres, AWS Aurora, MySQL and NoSQL 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, CloudWatch, Kubernetes etc

Deep Experience building applications in microservice 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

Proven ability to work cross-functionally, experience with planning and leading complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company

Excellent leadership, written and verbal communication skills

In-depth understanding of the entire software development process (design, development and deployment)