Senior Software Engineer
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
In this role you will be reporting to the Data Tools Engineering Manager. Your unique mission as a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Authoring and Tools team will be to lead our engineering efforts around building a forecasting and simulation platform for personalized authored content, and promote essential decisions along the way to help guide our entire engineering and marketing organization.
What you'll do:
- Lead essential efforts building new capabilities for our authored content to run through forecasting and simulation to better personalize content for our members
- Influence the features and direction of our products with your own ideas
- Identify ways to improve our technology and process
- Lead by example and mentor team members by providing technical and design guidance
- Lead code and technical design reviews
- Take an active role in the technical growth of other team members and the processes that support overall team growth
- Scope and plan work across multi-team efforts, working closely with business partners to establish a product vision in technical terms, and plan implementation and delivery
What's great about the role:
- The autonomy, pace, and quick decisioning of a startup, with the stability of Credit Karma's mature platform and business
- You will use a variety of technologies such as Apache Beam, Apache Spark on large amounts of data
- Technologies for production serving and personalization also include Scala, GCP, BigTable, BigQuery, GRPC, Thrift, GKE, Splunk and New Relic
- Have the autonomy to achieve results without micromanagement
Minimum Basic Requirement:
- 4+ years of programming experience in Scala, Java, Python, Typescript and/or any functional language
- 4+ years of significant professional experience in server-side development
- 4+ years of experience managing data pipelines and large-scale data products. .
- Knowledge in microservice architectures, messaging patterns, deployment models, domain-driven design, data pipelines and data warehouses.
- Professional experience across the entire software development process, from development environment, to CI & CD, to production deployment, product and application performance measurement
- Proven ability and interest in mentorship of junior engineers
Preferred Qualifications :
- Enthusiasm for learning about data products, features, and strategies.
- Approaches problems with an analysis-inspired approach - understands trade-offs between quality and time, with an eye towards iterative delivery of product features, and uses this capacity to plan and accomplish product requirements
- Promoting complex technical content to peers and partners
- DevOps experience is a plus, specifically using Google Cloud
Equal Employment Opportunity:
Credit Karma is proud to be an Equal Employment 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 other protected characteristic. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and operate in compliance with applicable fair chance laws.
Credit Karma is also committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment because it is the right thing to do. 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.
COVID-19 update (US Jobs Only):
Credit Karma believes that vaccines are one of the most powerful tools to fight COVID-19 and save lives. We also believe that in order to work toward our mission of helping people make financial progress, people first and foremost need their health. All employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to their start date unless otherwise approved for an exception as may be required by law.
Privacy Policies:
Credit Karma is strongly committed to protecting personal data. Please take a look below to review our privacy policies:
- GDPR Privacy Policy
- California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)