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Posted 21 hours agoSr. AI Engineer (MANTL)
at MANTL
United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Build event-driven background agents — absorb support-ticket pre-triage, ambient agents, and webhook-driven flows into Elixir as native event-driven flows.
- Maintain clear and proactive communication with stakeholders and cross-functional partners.
- Demonstrate self-sufficiency by independently managing tasks, problem-solving, and meeting deadlines while adapting to new challenges.
Requirements
- experience the power of alchemy - transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary - come join one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in the U.S.
- Follow us on Glassdoor and LinkedIn ! Elixir is the internal AI platform Alkami’s revenue organization runs on today.
- We are about to push it across the entire Alkami org as the platform AI lives on.
- We need an additional engineer paired tightly with our AI Engineering lead to make that possible without creating critical single-person dependency.
- The ideal candidate has experienced the consequences of technical debt, is comfortable architecting systems, grew up writing heavy duty, performant, stable systems in the pre-AI coding era, and is obsessed with quality.
- There will be an intense onboarding period (“the bootcamp”) learning the foundations of AI engineering — propensity for learning is a key differentiator.
- Reporting to the AI Engineering Lead, this role sits within the Product organization and is the key role on the AI Transformation team.
- Responsibilities & Duties: Partner with the AI Engineering lead to ship features from day one, ramping quickly into independent contributions on the Elixir platform.
- Extend the skills surface: creating, editing, version control, AI assistance, testing, benchmarking, and permissions.
- experience as a software, data, or AI engineer — the bar is “you’ve shipped production software with real users,” not pure tenure.
- Fluent in Python and at least one typed language (TypeScript, C#, Java, or equivalent).
- Internalized CS fundamentals: complexity analysis, recursion, algorithms, and data structures.
- Practical database depth — ACID transactions, contention, indexes, and migrations in both SQL and NoSQL environments.
- Has built at least one full-stack application from scratch in a modern JavaScript framework (React or Svelte).
- Basic proficiency in Linux, sandboxed execution, micro-VMs, and containerization.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally across engineering and business teams. Desired Skills:
- Experience with AI agents, agent harnesses, durable workflows, MCP servers, and context management.
- Familiarity with “big data” environments (Spark, EMR).
- AWS Cloud experience; banking, fintech, or compliance domain knowledge. Hands-on
- experience with Convex, Vercel AI SDK, React, DSPy, or semantic search. Open-source contributions in the AI agent or tooling ecosystem.
- Experience working with SaaS offerings in financial services or high-growth technology companies.
- Candidates must be eligible to work in the US for full-time employment.
Experience
- Qualifications: 5+ years of
Benefits
- The salary range for this position is: $136,000 - $170,000 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.
- 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.
Additional details
- Alkami is the digital sales and service platform provider for U.S. banks and credit unions.
- Our unified Platform integrates onboarding, digital banking, and data and marketing—each solution can stand alone, but together they deliver more—to help institutions onboard, engage, and grow relationships.
- As the future shifts toward Anticipatory Banking, we help data-informed bankers meet the moment with technology that drives action.
- 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).
- We’re building a culture where each Alkamist can perform to their highest potential, and we’re always on the lookout for the best and brightest minds. If you’re ready to
- 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.
- It is less than three months old, has increasing adoption across the organization, and is currently bottlenecked by a team of one.
- This is a platform engineering role for someone who has shipped production software with velocity.
- The role is open to candidates anywhere in the US (remote), with approximately 6-8 travel days per quarter including onsites in Plano, TX. Key
- Complete a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) rotation in months 1–2 — embed with a business function to learn what the platform must support by being the one who needs it.