Principal Software Engineer

General Purpose of the Job:

The Principal Engineer will build computer software systems, participating in the design process from beginning to end. Leads architectural design patterns and decisions to achieve our strategic product goals at the enterprise level. Demonstrates deep technical domain knowledge and ownership of multiple enterprise product features end-to-end. A key strategic player involved in maintenance of enterprise product features, including on call escalations, triaging and resolution.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Deliver highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant production applications.
• Help prevent and investigate production issues.
• Build architecture design, ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.
• Lead code/design reviews to ensure smooth daily operations and accurate planning
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional applications
• Identify bottlenecks in systems and optimize performance
• Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Set up and maintain environment configurations and monitor system health
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.
• Introduce and enhance tools to allow greater automation and operability of services.
• Interface with customers and other business stakeholders to effectively deliver software products that meet their needs
• Establishing and maintaining standards for the engineering organization.

Experience & Education:

• Typically requires a minimum of 14 years of related experience; or 12 years and an advanced degree

Education Level:

• Bachelors degree in engineering, or another related field or equivalent work experience

Knowledge, Skills, & Qualifications:

• Requires a minimum of 14 years of related experience software development, or a related field; or 12 years and an advanced degree
• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, distributed architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Strong programming skills in an object-oriented language such as Java or C#, with proven work experience as a full stack developer
• Experience working with modern Javascript frameworks like React and Angular, HTML, and CSS
• Experience and familiarity with mobile application development.
• Proficient in API fundamentals and best practices, REST API architecture
• In-depth understanding of the entire software development process (design, development and deployment)
• Advanced experience developing and deploying applications for Cloud Native Infrastructure, using CI/CD tools following best practices
• Experience building applications in microservice architecture with API-first mindset.
• Collaborates effectively within the agile framework with a problem-solving attitude and willing to take a variety of approaches
• Excellent analytical and time management skills, with a proven ability to deliver cross-organization impact independently
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally, experience with planning and leading complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
• Excellent leadership, written and verbal communication skills

Preferred:

• Masters degree in engineering, technology or related field
• Experience working with SaaS offerings in the technology and financial industries

ADA:

Alkami will make reasonable accommodations, as required by law, for the known physical or mental disabilities of an otherwise qualified applicant or Alkamist, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship upon Alkami's business operations.

Affirmative Action / EEO Statement:

Alkami 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, 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 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. The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals employed in this position. This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities required in this position. This job description does not constitute an employment contract.