Front End Software Engineer - All Levels

About Credit Karma

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. 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

Role Overview

As a front end software engineer on our product engineering team, you'll get to lead a growing team at Credit Karma that works across various verticals (home, auto, personal loans, and credit cards). You'll impact a platform that is responsible for handling millions of members accessing their Credit Karma accounts, including registration, login, SMS 2FA, and account recovery. Further, you’ll help build product experiences that guide our members through the most challenging financial decision of their lifetime: buying their dream home. From finding a realtor, understanding loan options, and applying to get pre-approved, we help our members every step of the way. There is an enormous opportunity to build things at scale, move fast, and have a high impact across many different products, including our Core product, Auto, Mortgage and Assets.

What You’ll Do

• Develop features and improvements for the various consumer facing products at Credit Karma using React and Typescript
• Develop, maintain and advocate Frontend code quality standards and best practices. Teach and reinforce these principles through code review
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity for the team. Serve as a technical leader, resource, and mentor for the other members of the Frontend Engineering team

What’s Great About the Role

• Impact: Our business is experiencing explosive growth and we are actively growing the team to improve and expand our product portfolio
• Solving BIG Problems: We are solving BIG problems that are fundamentally changing old industries
• Meaningful Improvement: Opportunity to meaningfully improve the lives of our members
• Fast-Paced Environment: Fast-paced environment that operates like a ‘start-up’ within Credit Karma

Minimum Basic Requirements

• Programming experience with a focus on front end development
• Experience in at least one relevant front-end framework (React, Typescript, Node, JavaScript)
• Experience in microservices architecture, messaging patterns, and deployment models
• Experience in API design and building robust and extendable client/server contracts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient in TypeScript
• Experience with GraphQL
• Ability to mentor, teach and coach early career team members
• Strong command of modern HTML and CSS
• A solid foundation in OOP, design patterns, algorithms, programming languages
• Experience with A/B testing
• Experience building highly integrated and testable systems
• Strong communication and leadership abilities.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum practices.
• Bachelor’s or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field or software development training program

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