Manager, Technical Engineering, Product Engineering

Manager, Technical Engineering, Product Engineering at Alkami Technology

Alkami is a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions in the United States. We empower 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, Alkami is recognized for its intentional culture and tremendous growth, earning accolades like 'Best Place to Work in Fintech' and 'Best Company Culture'. Through bold investments in technology and people, we enable our clients to grow confidently, adapt quickly, and build thriving digital banking communities for over 19.5M users.

As a remote-first company, most positions can be remote in the US, except for key roles. Follow us on Glassdoor and LinkedIn!

About the Role

This is a cross-functional and autonomous position involved in coordinating tasks between various teams and departments (Engineering, Quality Engineering, SRE, Release Management, Product, Architecture, TPMs) to ensure the high-quality delivery of software. The Manager, Technical Engineering, Product Engineering possesses strong technical aptitude, a hands-on software development background, and excellent problem-solving skills, acting as the 'grease' to keep a complex system with many moving parts operating smoothly. This innovative leader coaches and mentors their direct reports, fostering personal and professional growth within a collaborative, engaging, fast-paced, and result-oriented environment. They are hands-on, engaged with their teams, and responsible for evaluating individual and team performance metrics to maximize efficiency. This role drives technical discussions, triage, research, and helps determine root cause analysis.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Working with Product Engineering teams to deliver functional requirements and ensure features are built to specifications.
• Hands-On Contribution (20–30%): Write and review code, debug complex issues, design and evolve APIs, and deliver scalable platform services.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of software engineers, providing guidance, support, and feedback to foster their professional growth and development.
• Build architecture design, ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems, influence product roadmap, introduce new technologies, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Security, Architecture, and Operations to align engineering execution with business outcomes.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify bottlenecks, reduce technical debt, and drive scalability, resilience, and cost-efficiency.
• Delivery & Engineering Excellence: Define and track KPIs (deployment frequency, MTTR, test coverage, SLA adherence); balance speed with quality, improve and maintain the team’s Say/Do ratio by managing resource allocation, workload distribution, and project priorities to ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
• Maintain a deep understanding of software development technologies, trends, and best practices and provide technical guidance and expertise to the team.
• Oversee and manage on-call incidents, including troubleshooting and resolving critical disruptions to ensure minimal downtime around the functionality of your team.
• Drive the adoption of modern development practices, tools, and frameworks to improve productivity and product quality.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning within the team.
• Champion innovation and experimentation, encouraging team members to explore new technologies and approaches to solving complex problems.
• Working with Product Management to collaborate through creative brainstorming sessions and assist in writing requirements for technical debt.
• Reporting accomplishments, goals, issues, and deliverable statuses to effectively manage stakeholder expectations.
• Establishment of performance goals for all direct reports.
• Continuing education with regards to management philosophies, knowledge of the banking industry, as well as applications specific to segments of our client base.

Required Knowledge, Skills, & Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience in several of the following (or equivalent): .NET, Java, C#, Linux Container Development, k8s, MVC, SaaS, SOA, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, Modern Javascript Frameworks, Entity Framework, microservices.
• Proven experience in building and delivering SaaS-based software with modern system architecture, such as microservice-based architecture and cloud native applications.
• Experience working with one of the Cloud Service providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Solid understanding of Operational Excellence and able to showcase how to apply in the development life cycle (e.g., Dev/Ops, CI/CD, Automated Testing, Observabilities, etc.).
• Experience with Observability tools like Grafana, Newrelic, Haystack etc.
• Experience with real-time processing using event-driven architecture and batch processing of high-volume transactions.
• Experience building complex role-based access and entitlement systems.
• Proficiency in making data-driven decisions and evaluating trade-offs to prioritize projects and allocate resources effectively.
• Experience in building scalable systems that are operationally efficient.
• Demonstrated experience in leading and motivating cross-functional teams towards achieving shared objectives.
• Ability to build and maintain productive relationships with a diverse array of stakeholders and groups in the organization.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address technical challenges and overcome obstacles.
• Successful in managing multiple concurrent work streams.
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers.
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
• Experience managing global team working out of multiple timezones.
• Experience in Lean-Agile development methodologies such as Kanban or Scrum.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in fintech, digital banking, or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience working with SaaS offerings in the technology and financial industries.
• Knowledge of treasury management, cash positioning, liquidity management, commercial payments (ACH, wires), and reconciliation.
• Familiarity with banking data formats such as ISO 20022, BAI2, MT940, and EDI 820.

Recommended Experience & Education

Minimum Years Of Experience

• 15+ years of experience in software development or similar engineering fields.
• 5+ years in managing engineering teams.

Education Level

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience.

The salary range for this position is: $170,000 - $195,000.

Cool Things to Know

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.

J.D. Power 2024 Mobile App Platform Certification ProgramSM recognition is based on successful completion of an audit and exceeding a customer experience benchmark through a survey of recent servicing interactions. For more information, visit jdpower.com/awards.

Key skills/competency

• Software Development Management
• Cloud Platform Expertise
• Microservices Architecture
• SaaS Product Delivery
• DevOps & CI/CD
• Technical Leadership
• Team Mentorship
• API Design
• Data-Driven Decision Making
• Lean-Agile Methodologies