Job Description
Title: Software Engineer III (Core Data Platform)
Location: United States
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 role
Reports to: VP, Engineering Data Products
You will:
- 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.
You have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 4+ years of experience in software development.
- Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems as a backend engineer.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Scala, Java or Python.
- Experience building reporting and scheduler systems.
- Experience working with Kafka, EMR, Airflow, Spark, Airflow, Hadoop or similar.
- Experience building Data Lake with Glue, Hudi, Druid is a plus.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
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, driving projects forward with limited oversight.
- Passionate, with a genuine interest and enthusiasm about data, data technologies, and solving data challenges.