About Cardlytics
Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us!
Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a product-driven company that cares about three things: our people, our customers, and our partners. Together, we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital channels.
About the Team:
The Core Data Platform team at Cardlytics is responsible for the data infrastructure that powers the various products and offerings within the company. This team develops high-performance and scalable data platforms, supporting multiple data pipelines to ensure rapid and reliable data ingestion and delivery. The work of this team is critical in providing data services to different teams within the company, enhancing customer loyalty and deepening relationships with our financial institution partners.
About the Position:
Cardlytics is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Director of Engineering - Core Data Platform Team. In this role, you will develop new data feeds and features, create scalable data platforms, and contribute to building insights products using large amounts of financial data. Your work will directly impact the efficiency and reliability of our data services, supporting various business functions across the organization. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and solve complex data challenges.
Responsibilities:
- Provide Technical leadership and mentor junior engineers.
- Architect and develop new applications and features that provide data and data services to different teams within the enterprise, including engineering, data science, analysts, product, management/executives, and other business teams.
- Create high-performance and scalable data platforms that can support multiple data pipelines to ingest and deliver data as quickly and reliably as possible.
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code to ensure software quality.
- Build insights products using large amounts of financial data.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize software features.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and consistency.
- Conduct testing, debugging, and troubleshooting of software applications.
- Participate in the design and implementation of software architecture and infrastructure.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master’s degree preferred in Computer Science or related field.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
- Proven track record in producing maintainable software implementations with the highest quality.
- 8+ years of experience in software development.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Scala, Java, or Python.
- Experience in mentoring junior engineers and providing technical leadership.
- Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Backend software engineer with experience building large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience building reporting and scheduler systems.
- Experience working with AWS services, Kafka, EMR, Airflow, Spark, Spark on EKS, Hadoop, or similar.
- Experience building Data Lake with Glue, Hudi, Druid, or similar.
Core Values
Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates who embody these values:
- Customer and Partner-first.
- Act with Urgency and Focus.
- Integrity with our partners and data.
- Accountability even when challenged.
- Growth over comfort.
Compensation
At Cardlytics, salary ranges are determined based on factors such as role, level, and location. Individual compensation may be determined by relevant skills, experience, education, training, and other role-specific criteria. This salary range will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of the aforementioned factors. The base salary range provided below does not include bonuses and additional benefits.
The annual US base salary range for this role is: $240k - $275k base.
Benefits and Perks
- Flexible paid time off plus company holidays.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Educational assistance for continuing education.
- Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, emotional, and financial wellness (like gym memberships, home down payments, art classes, park passes, and more!).
- Complementary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health and wellbeing.
As an equal opportunity employer, Cardlytics is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life, and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and you’re excited about growing with us as we scale our best-in-class advertising platform, we’d love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please email recruiting@cardlytics.com or inform your recruiter.
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