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Title: Sr Software Engineer
Work Location: Charlotte, NC (Client prefers candidate to be in office for at least 3 days. Read that as a Charlotte preferred candidate.
Department: Engineering
Start Date: 1/5/2026
Here are the details of the JD. There will be a coding test and a compatibility interview before they can confirm. The domain knowledge of Fintech is a big plus. Microservices and Security knowledge is a big plus.
Job Description.
Proficient in Scala
Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS or similar data messaging platform
Experience building highly integrated, large-scale, high-volume, and testable systems
Experience with Kubernetes and containers technologies
Ability to mentor and coach other team members
A solid foundation in OOP, design patterns, algorithms, programming languages, networking and Linux operating systems.
Expert understanding of web application internals and scalability at any tier.
Proficiency in SQL, relational database schema design, and ORM technologies & concepts.
Strong understanding of deployment strategies and production infrastructure needs.
Strong communication and leadership abilities.
Experience with Agile/Scrum practices.
5 years of industry experience working as a backend developer
What you’ll do:
Contribute to our core services and data aggregation layer, meeting our need for scale, quality, and rapid iteration
Build out high quality integrations with other internal services leveraging rich financial data set
Work closely with our external partners to acquire new data to enrich our core user experience
Develop automation throughout our stack; through our build & deployment processes, testing, monitoring, data pipeline, and beyond
Work with front-end developers to complete end-to-end solutions and iterate rapidly as we experiment and learn
Willingness to learn new skills as our product and technology footprint growsWhat’s great about the role:
Being the owner of the most critical piece of user experience
We are solving BIG problems that are fundamentally changing old industries
Opportunity to meaningfully improve the lives of our members
Fast-paced environment that operates like a ‘start-up’ within Credit Karma
What we are looking for:
Experience in Scala, Java, and/or any functional language. We code primarily in Scala, so you’ll be excited to either ramp or continue with such
Experience in microservices architecture, messaging patterns, and deployment models
Experience in API design and building robust and extendable client/server contracts