Senior Software Engineer

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 Publisher team is responsible for building and maintaining an API platform enabling the world’s largest financial institutions to integrate with the Cardlytics purchase incentive platform. Working closely with peer engineering and product teams, Publisher engineering ensures these APIs are robust and comprehensive, empowering partners to leverage Cardlytics for maximum customer engagement and revenue effectively. This team plays a crucial role in supporting smooth onboarding and continued success for these partners, creating the core purchase channels of the Cardlytics business.

Cardlytics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Director of Engineering.

About the Position

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll build APIs, platforms, and data ingestion pipelines to enable integration with some of the world’s largest financial institutions, supporting 160 million monthly active users. This role offers the chance to make a direct impact on revenue and engagement, along with opportunities for mentorship and growth within a supportive, innovative environment.
 

Responsibilities

• Design and develop world-class publisher-facing interfaces and API services deployed in AWS that are auto-scalable, self-contained, and modular

• 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.

• Collaborate closely and build rapport with product, research, and engineering teams   

• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, and software development tooling

• Influence the technical direction of the team through conviction and experimentation

• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience

• MS degree in Computer Science or a related field (or BS degree with 7+ years of relevant experience)

• 3+ years of experience leading and building distributed web applications, backend APIs or full stack applications in Java, Scala, C#, Python, or Golang

• 2+ years of experience with Cloud-based architectures, development, and deployment with providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or any other cloud provider

• 5+ years of experience and deep knowledge of frameworks, tools/IDEs, testing and documentation

• Solid experience leading and building projects E2E

• A solid computer science foundation including programming languages, data structures and algorithms, SQL and NoSQL databases, event-driven architecture using platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ

• Experience building reporting and scheduler systems

• Strong experience working with Spark, Kafka, EMR, Airflow, Airflow, Hadoop or similar

• Experience working with Identity providers and user access (authentication and authorization)

• Skilled and knowledgeable on high-performance, distributed data-intensive platforms

• Experience working in agile teams

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Self-critical and constantly striving to improve on software design skills and coding skills

• Passionate about the ads ecosystem, with the willingness to learn about and adopt new concepts 

• Excellent at problem-solving through insightful data analysis and logical deduction

• Skilled and knowledgeable on high-performance, distributed data-intensive platforms

• A strong cross-functional team player, working with product and engineering counterparts to design and implement highly performant applications

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:

Range: $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.