Senior Software Engineer, Analytics
Credit Karma is a mission-driven company, focused on championing financial progress for our more than 100 million members in the U.S., Canada and U.K. While we're best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for tips as they work on their financial goals, including helping them monitor their credit, identity monitoring, searching for credit cards, shopping for loans (car, home and personal), and growing their savings* -- all for free. Credit Karma has grown significantly through the years: we've added more than 70 million members in the last five years alone and now have more than 1,100 employees across our offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Los Angeles and London.
*Banking services provided by MVB Bank, Inc., Member FDIC
The Experimentation Platform team at Credit Karma enables our data scientists, marketers and analysts to easily perform trustworthy experiments (A/B tests). To accomplish this, the team has been tasked with building a self service experiment management UI, backend APIs and an advanced analytics engine for fast decision making. You will play a crucial role as part of the backend team for this effort, working alongside fellow engineers and data scientists to design and implement various backend apis, data pipelines and statistical engines. You'll impact a platform that is helping expedite product innovation, speed up model deployments, improve product performance, and increase development velocity of the entire company.
What you’ll do:
- Lead critical efforts designing and building our next generation Experimentation Platform, leveraging Finagle, Scala, BigQuery, and Google Cloud Platform.
- Work with data scientists to implement advanced experimentation analytics techniques at scale using Scala or Python
- Take an active role in the technical growth of other team members and the processes that support overall team growth
- Lead or participate in code and technical design reviews
What’s great about the role:
- Work with stakeholders from across the organization on interesting and challenging problems
- Gain visibility into company-wide initiatives through supporting experimentation needs for various teams
- Gain domain expertise on the highly desirable and niche domain of experimentation
Minimum Basic Requirements:
- 5+ years of significant professional experience in server-side development written in Scala, Java, Go, or Python
- 5+ years of professional experience developing large-scale, high-volume services using Finagle, Akka, or gRPC to handle petabytes of data
- 5+ years of experience managing data pipelines and infra using Dataflow, Spark, Hadoop, Flink, and Airflow.
- Professional experience across the entire software development process, from development environment, to CI & CD including CircleCi, Jenkins, or TravisCi, to production deployment, product and application performance measurement
- Confident articulating complex technical content to peers and partners across the organization via Technical Design Documents.
- Strong ability to communicate
- Proven ability in mentorship of junior engineers
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience building experimentation platforms at other large organizations
- Prior experience building near time analytics solutions
- Experience building Scala based services in a production environment
- DevOps experience with Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure
Equal Employment Opportunity:
Credit Karma is committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that such an environment advances long-term professional growth, creates a robust business, and supports our mission of championing financial progress for everyone. We offer generous benefits and perks with a single eye to nourishing an inclusive environment that recognizes the contributions of all and fosters diversity by supporting our internal Employee Resource Groups. We’ve worked hard to build an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and the opportunity for professional growth. As part of the Credit Karma team, your voice will be heard, your contributions will matter, and your unique background and experiences will be celebrated.
Credit Karma is also proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome all candidates without regard to race, color, religion, age, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, veteran or military status, disability (physical or mental), genetic information, or any other protected characteristic. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and operate in compliance with applicable fair chance or similar ordinances.
COVID-19 update: Protecting the health of our employees and the candidates interested in a career at Credit Karma is our top priority. We appreciate your understanding and being open and flexible with any changes related to our interviewing process. Moving forward, all new hires are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and to share proof of that status prior to their first day of onboarding. If you are unable to be vaccinated for medical or religious reasons, we will explore potential reasonable accommodations; however, Credit Karma may not be able to grant such accommodations in all cases.
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