Staff Front End 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.

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 17.5M users.

As a remote-first company, this position can sit in Plano, TX or remote in the US.

Position Overview:

Are you passionate about creating exceptional user experiences through front-end development? We're seeking a Staff Front End Software Engineer to lead the development of high-quality, scalable UI/UX features primarily using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this role, you'll make key architectural decisions to align with our strategic product goals and take ownership of multiple front-end product features from end to end. Additionally, you'll play a critical role in maintaining product features, including handling on-call escalations, triaging issues, and ensuring prompt resolution.

We're looking for candidates with extensive experience in front-end development with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, a proven track record of leading and delivering high-quality front-end features, a strong understanding of architectural design patterns and scalability principles, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• Lead delivery of the entire application development lifecycle of product features, including coding, debugging, architecture strategy, and product improvements
• Lead code/design reviews to ensure smooth project execution and accurate planning
• Ensure proper level of testing coverage across features and functions with a test first mindset
• Collaborates across engineering, product, and design to gather and address technical and design requirements
• Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects
• Liaise with developers, designers, and product managers to identify new areas for improving product features
• Mindset of learning and curiosity, including staying up to date with new technologies to constantly innovate our front-end platform
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Provide documentation, coaching, training, and support to internal teams where needed
• Create and enhance development tools and test coverage to improve the overall efficiency of our front-end platform
• Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company
• Accountable for overall application health and monitoring of our platform including escalating to proactively address customer facing issues
• Own, troubleshoot, and drive client issues to resolution, including new and existing features
• Participate in on-call rotation as part of a defined support structure
• Conduct interviews with potential candidates
• Optimize user experiences by considering performance, accessibility, and responsiveness in the development process

Qualifications:

• At least 8 years of experience in software development or a related field
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, CS, physics, math, statistics, or another related field or equivalent work experience
• Strong programming skills in front-end languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript), with experience as a front-end developer
• Strong programming skills in modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue)
• In-depth understanding of the entire front-end feature development process (design, development, deployment, maintenance, and strategy)
• Strong experience working with CI/CD frameworks
• Strong experience with front-end A-B testing, test-driven development, and/or automation
• Experience implementing common architectural design patterns, processes, and workflows
• Experience designing and/or building products in micro frontend frameworks
• Experience creating and/or analyzing metrics for micro frontend frameworks
• Collaborative problem solving attitude and willing to take a variety of approaches
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience providing technical input
• Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, product, design and customers to build and maintain quality product features
• Analytical and time management skills, with the ability to deliver value independently
• Ability to participate in on-call rotation

Desired Skills:

• Master’s degree in engineering, technology or related field
• Experience designing and building a product with dynamic configuration and layout capabilities
• Experience migrating from monolithic front-end to micro frontend architecture
• Experience migrating from one JavaScript framework to another
• Experience migrating from Vue 2 to Vue 3
• Experience with Gitlab

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. [132,000-231,000]

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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