Senior Data Platform Engineer - Remote

Alkami; United States; Remote; USD 132,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first environment

Unlimited PTO

401(k) with employer match

Job summary

Alkami is a remote-first SaaS company providing a digital sales and service platform for U.S. banks and credit unions.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform to design, build, and operate backend-heavy, full-stack features that provide secure APIs and data egress for customer BI tools, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable products. The role emphasizes ownership of features, production readiness, and collaboration across engineering, product, and design,

Qualifications

• Experience building, shipping, and maintaining production services or APIs.
• Strong TypeScript proficiency and backend development experience.
• Knowledge of REST APIs, asynchronous data flows, and relational SQL data modeling.
• Ability to write readable, tested code and address reliability and security concerns.
• Clear verbal and written communication.
• Ability to own a feature through delivery with cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end implementation of Data Platform features from design to production support.
• Translate customer needs into practical designs and delivery plans.
• Build and maintain REST APIs delivering marketing performance data.
• Develop backend services and data flows through queues, databases, and interfaces.
• Create usable interfaces for nontechnical users to configure data workflows.
• Collaborate with data and software engineers on new Data Platform products.
• Write readable, tested code and participate in design discussions.
• Communicate progress and tradeoffs in documents and discussions.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response.

Skills

TypeScript

REST APIs

Cloud experience

Ownership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related

Tools

NestJS

TypeORM

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

BullMQ

pnpm/Turborepo

Job description

Alkami is a remote-first SaaS company providing a digital sales and service platform for U.S. banks and credit unions.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform to design, build, and operate backend-heavy, full-stack features that provide secure APIs and data egress for customer BI tools, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable products. The role emphasizes ownership of features, production readiness, and collaboration across engineering, product, and design,