Manager, Engineering (Partnerships)

Alkami Technology, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 153,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first environment

Unlimited paid time off

401(k) with employer match

Job summary

Alkami Technology is hiring an Engineering Manager for Partnerships to lead a team delivering integrations, identity verification, and account opening infrastructure for financial institutions and their members. You will guide the full application lifecycle from SSO enrollment to a growing public API platform.

This hybrid role blends technical leadership, people leadership, and hands-on problem solving, not just people management, to ship reliable software for clients.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong hands-on technical foundation.
• 2+ years in a technology leadership role with a track record of building and leading strong teams.
• Strong experience with modern software engineering across TypeScript, Node.js, Python, API development, event-driven systems, and Postgres.
• Strong system design and architecture skills with ability to communicate tradeoffs clearly.
• Experience building backend services and APIs with REST and microservices.
• Leadership centered on improving code quality through reviews, coaching, and collaboration.
• Strong written and verbal communication, translating product asks into technical plans.
• Ability to lead in evolving environments with shifting priorities and execution focus.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of full-stack and backend engineers across multiple product verticals.
• Drive sprint ceremonies, backlog grooming, and planning to maintain clarity and focus.
• Partner with Product to shape the roadmap and define quarterly scope.
• Promote engineering quality through code reviews, test coverage, and incident retrospectives.
• Identify blockers and shield the team from noise to enable productive work.
• Drive delivery across multiple domains with reliability, scalability, and security in mind.
• Escalate and triage customer issues with Implementation Managers and Customer Success.
• Collaborate on platform investments and align with joint go-to-market priorities.
• Represent engineering in cross-team planning with realistic estimates and risk assessments.

Job description

Alkami is the digital sales and service platform provider for U.S. banks and credit unions. Our unified Platform integrates onboarding, digital banking, and data and marketing—each solution can stand alone, but together they deliver more—to help institutions onboard, engage, and grow relationships. As the future shifts toward Anticipatory Banking, we help data-informed bankers meet the moment with technology that drives action.

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). We’re building a culture where each Alkamist can perform to their highest potential, and we’re always on the lookout for the best and brightest minds. If you’re ready to experience the power of alchemy - transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary - come join one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in the U.S.

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 hiring an Engineering Manager for Partnerships to lead a team focused on delivering the integrations, identity verification, and account opening infrastructure that connects financial institutions with their members. This team’s work spans the full application lifecycle — from OMB SSO and enrollment flows to KYC decisioning, funding pipelines, and a growing public API platform — requiring strong technical judgment across multiple product domains, close partnership with Implementation and Product, and a relentless bias toward shipping reliable software for clients in production.

This is a hybrid player-coach role. The right person will lead through the work by setting direction, mentoring engineers, shaping architecture, and staying close enough to the code and systems to help the team make strong technical decisions. At Alkami, this type of engineering manager role is designed to combine technical leadership, people leadership, and hands‑on problem solving rather than operating as a pure people manager.

What You’ll Do

Team Leadership & Engineering Excellence

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of full-stack and backend engineers across multiple product verticals
• Run effective sprint ceremonies, backlog grooming, and planning rituals to keep the team moving with clarity and focus
• Partner with Product to shape the roadmap, prioritize trade-offs, and define scope for quarterly planning
• Champion engineering quality through code review culture, test coverage standards, and thoughtful incident retrospectives
• Identify and remove blockers, resolve ambiguity, and shield the team from noise so they can do their best work

Technical Delivery

• Drive delivery across a broad set of domains, including:
• Hold the bar on system reliability, scalability, and security — especially for customer-facing and regulatory‑adjacent workflows
• Guide technical decision‑making on architecture, platform migrations, and strategic spikes

Stakeholder Partnership

• Serve as the primary engineering point of contact for escalated customer issues, working with Implementation Managers and Customer Success to triage and resolve with urgency
• Collaborate with the Alkami Better Together initiative to align platform investments with joint go‑to‑market priorities
• Represent engineering perspective in cross‑team planning, providing realistic estimates and risk assessments

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong hands‑on technical foundation.
• 2+ years of experience in a technology leadership role with a track record of building and leading strong teams.
• Strong experience with modern software engineering across areas such as TypeScript, Node.js, Python, API development, event‑driven systems, and relational databases such as Postgres.
• Strong system design and architecture skills, with the ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly and guide teams through ambiguous problems.
• Experience building backend services and APIs, with a solid understanding of REST APIs and microservice‑style architectures.
• A leadership style centered on raising the bar through code reviews, technical coaching, and thoughtful collaboration.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to turn product asks into clear technical plans and align stakeholders around execution.
• Comfort operating in an evolving environment where priorities can shift and the best leaders stay calm, adaptable, and execution‑focused.

About You

• You lead through the work and enjoy being both a technical leader and a people leader.
• You write clean, well‑documented, well‑tested code and care about long‑term quality and performance.
• You think carefully about error handling, logging, and edge cases instead of optimizing only for speed.
• You enjoy breaking down complex product asks into elegant, maintainable solutions.
• You are comfortable discussing architecture, advocating for sound technical decisions, and weighing tradeoffs thoughtfully.
• You enjoy mentoring teammates and helping raise the quality of the broader team’s work.

The salary range for this position is: $153,000 - $191,000

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.

The Important Stuff

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.

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