Credit Karma

Staff Architect AI Applications

Oakland, CA
Angular Android TypeScript Spring AWS GCP Python React Kotlin Java Node.js
Description
Intuit Credit Karma is a mission-driven company, focused on championing financial progress for our more than 140 million members globally. While we're best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for everything related to their financial goals, including identity monitoring, applying for credit cards, shopping for insurance and loans (car, home and personal) and savings accounts and checking accounts* – all for free. Credit Karma has grown significantly through the years: we now have more than 1,700 employees across our offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Culver City, San Diego, London, Bangalore, and New York City.

*Banking services provided by MVB Bank, Inc., Member FDIC

As our Staff Architect for AI Applications, you will join the senior architecture team at Credit Karma and lead a technology roadmap that matures our AI capabilities, working with product leadership to power intelligent experiences that make it easier for our members to achieve their financial goals.  This is a challenging role. It will require the ability to combine solid foundational engineering skills - the skills needed to build complex consumer scale applications - with the knowledge, experience, and agility to apply nascent and volatile technologies like generative AI. 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 and capabilities - at consumer scale - 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 apply AI to solving customer problems
  • Guide the applicability of AI to customer problems through a deep understanding of the value and limitations of AI technologies
  • Partner closely with senior product leadership to continuously connect business outcomes to our AI technology strategy
  • Be the technical expert, researching, evaluating, and implementing state-of-the-art technology in the AI space (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

What's great about the role:

  • AI Native thinking
  • Understands evaluation tools to validate and measure the accuracy of solutions
  • High-level understanding of how AI models work, the different types of AI models that exist, and their pros and cons
  • Understanding of the latest tools and technologies that apply AI to real-world applications

What we are looking for:

  • 10+ years of experience designing complex distributed systems, management products, or business applications
  • Full-stack development experience with AI technologies and tools; applying it to user experiences or backend solutions.
  • Experience with AI technologies like SageMaker, Vertex, LangChain, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, DialogFlow, Python
  • Experience with at least one of the following:
    • Front-end technologies like React, Angular, SwiftUI (iOS), Kotlin (Android)
    • Back-end technologies like Java, Typescript, Spring, Express (NodeJS)
  • Prior working experience in a cloud computing environment like AWS or GCP is highly desired
  • Prior experience working in teams that have built AI native applications for 1+ years
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or related area, or equivalent experience

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

Pay Transparency Notice: Credit Karma’s mission of championing financial progress for all starts from within. That’s why we implemented role-based compensation, which ensures people who are in the same role receive the same pay with variations for geographic location only. It’s all part of a more comprehensive DEI strategy that helps level the playing field. The base salary for this role is $402,578, plus equity and benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Credit Karma is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We welcome all candidates without regard to race, color, religion, age, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, veteran or military status, disability (physical or mental), genetic information or other protected characteristic. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and operate in compliance with applicable fair chance laws. 

Credit Karma is also  committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment because it is the right thing to do. We believe that such an environment advances long-term professional growth, creates a robust business, and supports our mission of championing financial progress for everyone. We offer generous benefits and perks with a single eye to nourishing an inclusive environment that recognizes the contributions of all and fosters diversity by supporting our internal Employee Resource Groups. We’ve worked hard to build an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and the opportunity for professional growth. As part of the Credit Karma team, your voice will be heard, your contributions will matter, and your unique background and experiences will be celebrated.

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