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. 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, 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 19.5M users.
As a remote-first company, most of our positions can be remote in the US, except for key roles, which will be indicated in the Job Title.
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As a Technical Engineering Manager, SDET at Alkami, you will lead and support a team of Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs) responsible for delivering scalable, high-quality automation frameworks and testing solutions. This role combines people leadership with deep technical execution. You will be expected to stay close to the codebase, contributing directly to the design and development of automation frameworks, tools, and infrastructure—allocating approximately between 20%-30% of your time to hands-on coding.Key Responsibilities & Duties
Lead, coach, and grow a team of SDETs focused on full-stack automation (Web, Mobile, API).
Architect and contribute to test automation frameworks, tools, and libraries to improve velocity, maintainability, and coverage.
Actively participate in design and code reviews, and own the quality of automation deliverables for critical systems.
Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code (~20%-30% hands-on contribution expected) in alignment with best practices for automation and validation.
Drive adoption of engineering best practices: shift-left testing, quality gates, mocking, service virtualization, and risk-based testing.
Partner with development, product, DevOps, and security to define and execute on test strategies for integration, regression, exploratory, and performance testing.
Enable continuous validation by integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
Monitor key quality metrics (e.g., defect escape rate, test coverage, automation reliability) and drive data-informed decisions.
Ensure test environments, data provisioning, and automation infrastructure meet the needs of fast-moving teams.
Participate in hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and professional development of engineering talent.
Champion a culture of ownership, accountability, and engineering excellence.
Qualifications
Required:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of experience in quality engineering or software development, including:
2–4 years in a technical leadership or management role overseeing SDET or QA engineers.
Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python.
Deep experience with UI and API automation tools: Playwright, Selenium, Appium, JUnit/TestNG, RestAssured, Postman.
Demonstrated ability to design and scale automation frameworks in complex, distributed environments.
Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and infrastructure (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
Solid understanding of software testing principles (unit, integration, system, performance) and the testing pyramid.
Effective communication, collaboration, and influence across engineering, product, and operations teams.
Preferred:
Experience in cloud-native architectures and services (e.g., AWS Lambda, EKS, CloudFront).
Exposure to observability tooling and production validation strategies (e.g., Datadog, Grafana).
Experience testing distributed systems in regulated environments (e.g., FinTech), with emphasis on automated compliance validation, audit traceability, and secure test data management.
Familiarity with modern quality engineering paradigms, including contract testing for microservices, chaos engineering to assess system resilience under failure conditions, and canary deployments for safe, progressive releases in production.
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.
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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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.