Sr. Software Engineer (MANTL)

Overview

Senior individual contributor who sets technical direction and delivers complex, cross-team software capabilities across Alkami's digital banking platform, turning ambiguous product and business needs into scalable system designs, robust APIs, secure integrations, and intuitive experiences.

What you'll do

• 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.

What you'll need

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience; or 6 years and an advanced degree.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, or another related field or equivalent work experience.
• Required 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, and 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.
• Ability to lift a minimum of 5 pounds to a maximum of 10 pounds unassisted; ability to stand, sit, stoop, walk, stretch, reach, and use full range of body motions; manual dexterity as required for specific equipment.

Nice to have

• Experience in SaaS, FinTech, digital banking, payments, or another regulated technology environment.
• Experience with ReactJS, NestJS, or comparable frontend and backend frameworks.
• Experience with GraphQL.
• Experience designing third-party integrations for financial data, identity, or communications platforms.
• Experience with cloud platforms, containers, orchestration, infrastructure as code, or event-driven architecture.

Details

• US Remote; most positions can be remote in the US (remote-first company).
• Salary range: $140,000 - $175,000.
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the US for full-time employment; no employment sponsorship offered at this time.