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Lead and mentor a team of full‑stack/backend engineers building integrations, identity verification, SSO, account opening, funding/ACH pipelines, and a public API platform. Drive architecture and delivery, champion quality and reliability, partner with Product and Implementation on roadmap and escalations, and remain hands‑on to guide technical decisions and ship production software.

As an Enterprise Account Executive, you will acquire new credit union customers, manage sales processes, build relationships, and exceed sales quotas.

Develop, test, and maintain web applications across the full application lifecycle. Write clean object-oriented code, implement REST APIs, work with relational and NoSQL databases, deploy to cloud-native infrastructure, participate in Agile teams, support production systems (on-call), and create automated tests for reliability and performance.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable backend and frontend systems (approx. 60% backend/40% frontend), including data pipelines, Kafka streams, REST APIs, and cloud-native deployments on AWS/Kubernetes. Participates in design/code reviews, on-call rotation, troubleshooting, performance optimization, testing, mentoring, and architectural discussions while championing API-first approaches and improving monitoring and tooling.

Configure and implement Alkami digital banking products and third-party integrations, troubleshoot technical issues, perform testing and validation, document configurations, coordinate with project managers and vendors, and support clients through implementation and post-go-live stabilization.

Support customer onboarding and configuration of Alkami digital banking solutions by gathering requirements, leading implementation sessions, configuring platform features, troubleshooting issues, coordinating with PMs and development, documenting configurations, and validating deployments across multiple concurrent projects.

Drive new-logo enterprise sales to banks and credit unions, manage complex multi-threaded deal cycles from prospecting to close, lead executive-level discovery and negotiations, design account-based strategies, forecast pipeline, collaborate with product/marketing/SE, represent Alkami externally, mentor teammates, and consistently achieve quota.