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.
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 18.1M users.
As a remote-first company, this position can sit in Plano, TX or remote in the US.
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Position Overview
At Alkami the Director, Software Engineering will be a hands-on technical leader with .NET technologies providing direction and leadership to their technical teams. They will provide leadership and management to assure the team achieves product development goals that support company business objectives. In addition, they will be responsible for creating an environment that maximizes team retention and job satisfaction. The Director, Software Engineering will participate in the overall management of the engineering team and provide stakeholder visibility and clarity of the team's goals.
Key Responsibilities & Duties
Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers
Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of engineers in your team.
Work with product owners to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios - Continuously improve software engineering practices
Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack of development tools and technologies
Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions
Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal & external technology communities, and mentor other members of the engineering community
Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity
Work across to improve the velocity of your and other teams
Qualifications
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience
At least 10+ years experience in hands-on software development in a large enterprise or SaaS software company
At least 5 years experience with leadership and management
Must have disciplined engineering background with experience in successfully delivering major product releases over multiple time periods with high quality
Demonstrated ability to build, mentor and coach high-performing teams to meet professional and performance goals, cultivate strong relationships with team members.
Prior experience leading a team and developing products within a multi-tenant Cloud/SaaS environment running in a major cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Ability to work within broad corporate objectives to define functional goals, steering strategic workforce planning, creating and communicating consistent standards of performance and creating a high performance driven culture
Experience working in an agile and fast paced environment
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills and superior presentation abilities, with the capacity to communicate with a variety of audiences, from internal stakeholders to managers, staff, customers, partners and analysts
Desired Skills
5+ years .NET Framework, C# or equivalent experience
3+ years of leading modern development approaches (containerization, cloud, continuous delivery, micro-services, modular reactive web applications)
Understanding of ORM frameworks (such as ADO.NET Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL, or NHibernate)
Experience working with relation database including writing queries, stored procedures, creating tables, indexes and foreign keys
Active within the tech community (speaker at events/meetups, blogging, open source contributor)
Cool Things to Know
Not Just Any Company: Alkami has an awesome diverse and inclusive environment. We have a FUN culture and offer great benefits, including remote-first environment, unlimited paid time off, 401(k) with employer match, and more.
Work Authorization: We cannot offer employment sponsorship at this time. Candidates must be eligible to work in the US for full-time employment.
Recruiters: We are not looking for outside recruiting firms to help us in this search. Thank you for understanding.
Pay Transparency: As of January 1, 2023, new states and locales have enacted pay equity laws that require more pay transparency by employers in the following states: California, Colorado (effective January 1, 2021), Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington. [$183,040.00 - $274,560.00]
The Important Stuff
Alkami Technology 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 and to 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 and/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. Alkami encourages applicants of all ages.
Seniority level
Director
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Financial Services
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