Software Engineer IV
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 Portals team at Credit Karma enables our product engineering teams to deploy product experiences at scale which serve our 100 million+ members. To accomplish this, the Portals team develops Thrift and GraphQL services that leverage Google Cloud Platform (GCP) technologies and run in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). We are responsible for mission critical components and infrastructure at Credit Karma and are constantly looking for ways to make the platform better. In this role, you will be instrumental in building a reliable and capable product platform, innovating and improving best practices, automating at scale, and being a strong advocate for product engineers. The successful candidate would have passion for development velocity through automation and CI, a desire to build deep technical expertise, and enjoy the challenge of owning mission critical components.
What you’ll do:
- Collaborate closely with security, platform and product engineers to understand customer needs, pain points and drive innovations to improve reliability and efficiency while keeping a secure by design mindset
- Design and implement best practices and improve automation to scale the team to manage a growing number of clusters
- Improve processes, testing and CI integrations to catch issues before they affect production and drive a culture of operational excellence
What’s great about the role:
- This is a small team that has an outsized impact at Credit Karma and as such you have the opportunity to work on projects and drive initiatives that set engineering best practices and can impact velocity for the whole company
- The Portals team owns critical services that power meaningful parts of the product. The work we do matters a lot to the entire company.
Minimum Basic Requirements:
- Minimum 5 years of programming experience
- 5 years of experience in microservices architecture, managing large scale production services
- Prior experience building services deployed at scale
- Expertise in one of more programming languages such as typescript, scala, java, etc.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A desire to be part of a great adventure and take part in shaping the future of the company
- Experience with gitops, continuous deployment or managing Infrastructure as code
- Ability to express complex ideas in a simple manner and ability to create well thought out technical designs and rollout/migration plans for mission critical components
- Experience with writing production grade and scalable services in Scala and/or Typescript
- Passion for automation and a drive for continuous improvement
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and provide mentorship and share knowledge with other engineers
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.
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