This is a hybrid player-coach role. The right person will lead through the work by setting direction, mentoring engineers, shaping architecture, and staying close enough to the code and systems to help the team make strong technical decisions. At Alkami, this type of engineering manager role is designed to combine technical leadership, people leadership, and hands-on problem solving rather than operating as a pure people manager.

 What You’ll Do
Team Leadership & Engineering Excellence
Manage, mentor, and grow a team of full-stack and backend engineers across multiple product verticals
Run effective sprint ceremonies, backlog grooming, and planning rituals to keep the team moving with clarity and focus
Partner with Product to shape the roadmap, prioritize trade-offs, and define scope for quarterly planning
Champion engineering quality through code review culture, test coverage standards, and thoughtful incident retrospectives
Identify and remove blockers, resolve ambiguity, and shield the team from noise so they can do their best work
Technical Delivery
Drive delivery across a broad set of domains, including
Digital Self-Service Platform (DSSP) and the My Applications Hub integration with Alkami Online Banking
KYC & Identity Verification via Alloy, Effectiv, Socure, and AI-assisted decisioning
SSO & Authentication across SAML, OIDC, and enrollment integrations with partners
Online/Mobile Banking (OMB) configuration tooling and business enrollment flows
Public API Platform including CRUD endpoints, webhook support, and partner-facing documentation
Funding & ACH infrastructure including file generation, alerting, and self-service configuration
Third-Party Integrations with Plaid, Atomic, Segmint, BioCatch, and others
Hold the bar on system reliability, scalability, and security — especially for customer-facing and regulatory-adjacent workflows
Guide technical decision-making on architecture, platform migrations, and strategic spikes
Stakeholder Partnership
Serve as the primary engineering point of contact for escalated customer issues, working with Implementation Managers and Customer Success to triage and resolve with urgency
Collaborate with the Alkami Better Together initiative to align platform investments with joint go-to-market priorities
Represent engineering perspective in cross-team planning, providing realistic estimates and risk assessments
What We’re Looking For
8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong hands-on technical foundation.
2+ years of experience in a technology leadership role with a track record of building and leading strong teams.
Strong experience with modern software engineering across areas such as TypeScript, Node.js, Python, API development, event-driven systems, and relational databases such as Postgres.
Strong system design and architecture skills, with the ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly and guide teams through ambiguous problems.
Experience building backend services and APIs, with a solid understanding of REST APIs and microservice-style architectures.
A leadership style centered on raising the bar through code reviews, technical coaching, and thoughtful collaboration.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to turn product asks into clear technical plans and align stakeholders around execution.
Comfort operating in an evolving environment where priorities can shift and the best leaders stay calm, adaptable, and execution-focused.
About You
You lead through the work and enjoy being both a technical leader and a people leader.
You write clean, well-documented, well-tested code and care about long-term quality and performance.
You think carefully about error handling, logging, and edge cases instead of optimizing only for speed.
You enjoy breaking down complex product asks into elegant, maintainable solutions.
You are comfortable discussing architecture, advocating for sound technical decisions, and weighing tradeoffs thoughtfully.
You enjoy mentoring teammates and helping raise the quality of the broader team’s work.
The salary range for this position is: $153,000 - $191,000
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.
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.
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