Senior Software Engineer

Job Title:

Senior Software Engineer

Work Location:

11605 N Community House Road, Suite 450, Charlotte, NC (Client prefers candidate to be in office for at least 3 days. Remote OK if it is a stellar candidate. Read that as a Charlotte preferred candidate.)

Department:
Engineering

Here are the details of the JD. There will be a coding test and a compatibility interview before they can confirm. Domain knowledge of Fintech is a big plus. Microservices and Security knowledge is a big plus.

• Proficient in Scala
• Experience with Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ, Amazon SQS or similar data messaging platform
• Experience building highly integrated, large-scale, high-volume, and testable systems
• Experience with Kubernetes and containers technologies
• Ability to mentor and coach other team members
• A solid foundation in OOP, design patterns, algorithms, programming languages, networking and Linux operating systems.
• Expert understanding of web application internals and scalability at any tier.
• Proficiency in SQL, relational database schema design and ORM technologies & concepts.
• Strong understanding of deployment strategies and production infrastructure needs.
• Strong communication and leadership abilities.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum practices.
• 5 years of industry experience working as a backend developer

• Contribute to our core services and data aggregation layer; meeting our need for scale, quality, and rapid iteration
• Build out high quality integrations with other internal services leveraging Credit Karma’s rich financial data set
• Work closely with our external partners to acquire new data to enrich our core user experience
• Develop automation throughout our stack; through our build & deployment processes, testing, monitoring, data pipeline, and beyond
• Work with front-end developers to complete end-to-end solutions and iterate rapidly as we experiment and learn
• Willingness to learn new skills as our product and technology footprint grows

• Being the owner of the most critical piece of Credit Karma user experience
• We are solving BIG problems that are fundamentally changing old industries
• Opportunity to meaningfully improve the lives of our members
• Fast-paced environment that operates like a ‘start‑up’ within Credit Karma

• Experience in Scala
  , Java, and/or any functional language. We code primarily in Scala, so you’ll be excited to either ramp or continue with such
• Experience in microservices architecture, messaging patterns, and deployment models
• Experience in API design and building robust and extendable client/server contracts