Credit Karma · 14 hours ago
Staff Architect
Charlotte, NC
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
10+ years expCredit Karma is a mission-driven company focused on championing financial progress for over 140 million members globally. As the Staff Architect for Developer Efficiency, you will lead a technology roadmap to enhance internal tooling capabilities while collaborating across engineering teams and serving as a trusted advisor to leadership.
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Responsibilities
Drive a holistic technical strategy for building AI powered experiences, automation and capabilities - across a number of interdependent engineering teams, architects, systems and offerings
Influence and shape the frameworks, abstractions, and patterns used by product development teams to expand our internal tooling and improve efficiency
Guide the applicability of AI to developer problems through a deep understanding of the value and limitations of AI technologies
Be the technical expert, researching, evaluating, and implementing state-of-the-art technology to improve our developer experiences (open source, third party)
Apply strong technical documentation and presentation skills to communicate architectural and design options at all levels, including to executive leadership
Grow a strong engineering culture - set and evangelize vision, facilitative leadership, attract and retain key talent. Talent steward for the engineering organization, mentor rising leaders
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience designing complex distributed systems, management products, or business applications
Excellent communication skills: demonstrated ability to present to all levels of leadership, including executives
Full-stack development experience with AI technologies and tools; applying it to developer experiences or backend solutions
Establish Developer Best Practices: Develop, maintain, and enforce architecture standards, best practices, and design patterns to ensure consistency and quality across development capabilities
Experience with at least one of the following: Front-end Technologies (React, SwiftUI, Kotlin), Back-end Technologies (Java, TypeScript, Python, Go) or Data Technologies (AirFlow, DataFlow, BigQuery)
Prior working experience in a cloud computing environment like AWS or GCP is highly desired
Preferred
BS or MS in Computer Science or related area, or equivalent experience in driving business and technology strategies and multi-year roadmaps with an execution scope of 50-100+ engineers
Experience with additional programming languages like TypeScript, Go, Scala and Python
Self-driven with a proven track record to learn a new engineering space, identify opportunities to improve efficiency and present to leadership
Benefits
Medical and Dental Coverage
Retirement Plan
Commuter Benefits
Wellness perks
Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick, Baby Bonding, Cultural Observance, & More)
Education Perks
Paid Gift Week in December
Company
Credit Karma
Credit Karma offers a range of tools and personalized recommendations designed to help customers make the most of their money.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$868MKey Investors
Silver LakeSV AngelCapitalG
2020-02-24Acquired
2018-03-28Secondary Market· $500M
2015-06-23Series E· $175M
Leadership Team
Ryan Graciano
Co-Founder & Consulting Advisor
Alicia Hwang
Managing Counsel
Recent News
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