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Staff Architect, Developer Efficiency

Credit Karma
Credit Karma Salary
Oakland, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/10/2025

Intuit Credit Karma is a mission-driven company, focused on championing financial progress for our more than 140 million members globally. While we're best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for everything related to their financial goals, including identity monitoring, applying for credit cards, shopping for insurance and loans (car, home and personal) and savings accounts and checking accounts

  • all for free. Credit Karma has grown significantly through the years : we now have more than 1,700 employees across our offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Culver City, San Diego, London, Bangalore, and New York City.
  • Banking services provided by MVB Bank, Inc., Member FDIC

As our Staff Architect for Developer Efficiency, you will join the senior architecture team at Credit Karma and lead a technology roadmap that matures our internal tooling capabilities, working across engineering and different domains such as AI, Data Engineering, Services and Frontend to drive roadmaps across Developer Efficiency teams.

Within this role, you will collaborate across all engineering teams and product development organizations, and be a trusted advisor to senior and executive leadership.

What you'll do :

  • 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
  • Minimum Basic Qualifications

  • 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 Qualifications

  • 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 at Credit Karma includes :

  • 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
  • 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.

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