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