Software Engineer III

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 effectively leverage Cardlytics for maximum customer engagement and revenue. This team plays a crucial role in supporting smooth onboarding and continued success for these partners, creating the purchase channels that are core to the Cardlytics business.

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

About the Position

As an SWE III, you’ll build APIs, platforms, and data ingestion pipelines that enable integration with some of the world’s largest financial institutions, supporting 160 million monthly active users. This role lets you see the direct impact of your work on revenue and engagement, with opportunities for mentorship and growth within a supportive, innovative environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, world-class, customer-facing interfaces and API services within a modern, cloud-native architecture in AWS 

• 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

• Mentor other engineers

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science or a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience

• 2+ years building high-quality, distributed web applications, backend APIs, or full-stack applications in Java, Scala, C#, Python, or Golang

• Solid experience building software in a modular way for maximum reusability, scalability, and maintainability

• Experience with Cloud-based architectures, development, and deployment with providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or any other cloud provider

• Experience and deep knowledge of frameworks, tools/IDEs, testing, and documentation

• 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 RabbitM

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

• Commitment to continual learning of industry standards and trend

• Excellent communication skills in multiple team environment

• Comfortable in a culture of close collaboration and code review

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred 

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: $155,000 - $185,000

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.