Senior Software Engineer - Core Data Platform Team

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 Position

Cardlytics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Director of Engineering. The core data platform team is responsible for the data infrastructure that power the various products and offerings within Cardlytics.

Responsibilities:

Developing 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.

Creating high-performance and scalable data platforms that can support multiple data pipelines to ingest and deliver data as quickly and reliably as possible.

Writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code to ensure software quality.

Building insights products using large amounts of financial data.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize software features.

Participating in code reviews to ensure code quality and consistency.

Conducting testing, debugging, and troubleshooting of software applications.

Participating in the design and implementation of software architecture and infrastructure.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

6+ years of experience in software development

Experience designing and building large scale distributed system

Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Scala, Java

Backend software engineer with experience building large scale distributed systems

Experience building reporting and scheduler systems

Strong experience with Spark

Experience working with Kafka, EMR, Airflow, Airflow, Hadoop or similar

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building Data Lake with Glue, Hudi, Druid, Flink is a plus

You are:

Able to express yourself and articulate your ideas clearly, thoroughly, and respectfully; you listen the same way, and you do both across all levels of the organization with confidence

Able to offer opinions and make decisions with limited information; able to accept and manage risk and drive change

Able to take abstract ideas, formulate an actionable strategy, and execute on time and on scope

A self-starter: you drive projects forward with limited oversight

Passionate: you have genuine interest and enthusiasm about data, data technologies, and solving data challenges

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

Empowerment over hierarchy

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:

$180,000 - $215,000

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 [email protected] or inform your recruiter.