Remote Staff Software Engineer for FinTech Platform

Alkami Technology, Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Alkami Technology, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to define technical direction and deliver complex, cross-team software capabilities across Alkami’s digital banking platform.

You will turn ambiguous product and business needs into scalable system designs, robust APIs, secure integrations, and intuitive experiences for financial institutions and digital banking users. You will partner with product, design, security, architecture, site reliability, data, and engineering teams to raise

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex production software and leading technical direction across teams or domains.
• Deep proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js, Python, Go, or similar languages for frontend and/or backend use, with the ability to work across the stack.
• Advanced system design across domain-driven design, microservices, REST APIs, distributed systems, data stores, and integrations.
• Strong discipline in testing, error handling, observability, performance, security, maintainable delivery.
• Ability to influence without authority, communicate architecture clearly, and mentor engineers through reviews and hands-on guidance.
• Ability to turn ambiguity into pragmatic plans, manage cross-team dependencies, and drive measurable outcomes.
• Experience in Agile, iterative delivery and improving team practices through feedback and continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-team delivery across experiences, services, APIs, data, and integrations.
• Turn ambiguous product and business needs into technical strategies, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Set architecture across domains, document tradeoffs, and align teams on scalable, secure patterns.
• Write and review tested code in TypeScript and Node.js, Python, Go, or similar languages for full stack applications.
• Design secure APIs, domain models, microservices, workflows, and data contracts.
• Build for reliability and performance using error handling, observability, capacity planning, graceful degradation, and recovery patterns.
• Lead third-party integration design across authentication, privacy, data mapping, rate limits, retries, idempotency, monitoring, and vendor failures.
• Drive cross-team execution by managing dependencies, sequencing work, reducing risk, and making timely decisions when tradeoffs are unclear.
• Mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, documentation, and hands-on coaching.
• Partner with product, design, security, architecture, site reliability, data, and engineering leaders to balance speed, experience, operability, and risk.
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis, driving prevention and operational readiness.
• Improve engineering effectiveness through reusable patterns, automated tests, CI/CD, developer tooling, and secure, human-reviewed use of AI-assisted tools.

Skills

TypeScript/Node.js

Python

Go

System design

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

ReactJS

NestJS

GraphQL

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IaC

Job description

Alkami Technology, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to define technical direction and deliver complex, cross-team software capabilities across Alkami’s digital banking platform.

You will turn ambiguous product and business needs into scalable system designs, robust APIs, secure integrations, and intuitive experiences for financial institutions and digital banking users. You will partner with product, design, security, architecture, site reliability, data, and engineering teams to raise