Software Engineer

Alkami is a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions in the United States that helps clients to transform through retail and business banking, digital account opening and loan origination, payment fraud prevention, and data analytics and engagement solutions. Alkami’s Mobile App Platform has been certified by J.D. Power for providing clients with “An Outstanding Mobile Banking Platform Experience.”

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). Through our bold investments in technology and people, we empower our clients to grow confidently, adapt quickly, and build thriving digital banking communities through tailored experiences for over 19.5M users.

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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We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to contribute to the development of features such as electronic statements and various payment and protection controls. A core function of this role involves connecting and integrating with third-party vendor and financial institution core systems. The ideal candidate has practical experience working with diverse integration technologies (e.g., REST and SOAP), handling multiple data formats (JSON, XML), and ensuring data is exchanged securely using modern authentication and authorization protocols.

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

•  Write clean code to develop functional web applications using object-oriented design, design patterns, data structures, relational databases 

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging

• Troubleshoot and debug applications 

• Perform UI tests to optimize performance 

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use 

• Gather and address technical and design requirements with little assistance

• Follow development standards set within the team 

• Collaborates effectively within the agile framework with a problem-solving attitude and willing to take a variety of approaches 

• Demonstrates strong written and verbal communication skills within the team 

• Respond promptly to on-call incidents, including troubleshooting and resolving critical disruptions to ensure minimal downtime 

• Adhere and uphold Alkami’s core values.

Recommended Experience & Education
Minimum Years of Experience:

Typically requires a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced
degree without experience

Education Level Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or another related field or equivalent work experience

Knowledge, Skills, & Qualifications
Required

● 2-4 years of experience in software development or a related field.
● Ability to show programming skills in an object-oriented language such as Java or C#, with proven work experience as a full-stack developer
● Experience with database frameworks such as NoSQL, SQL Databases, Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks
● Understanding the entire software development process (design, development and deployment)
● Experience developing and deploying applications for Cloud Native Infrastructure
● Experience working within Agile framework
● Good analytical and time management skills, with a proven ability to deliver value with some assistance

● Automation framework knowledge or prior experience with one or more open source tools such as Playwright, Selenium or Cypress for Web application testing

● Familiarity with monitoring and supporting production systems, proficiency in identifying and resolving issues, implementing proactive measures, and tracking measurements.
● Knowledge of performance measurements of applications
● Understanding and some practical application of REST API best practices. Proficiency in a