Strategic thinking isn’t just the generative idea creation of a “strategy”. It’s also about savvy execution within a strategic context.
In every project a thousand decisions are made by “drooling labor” and the better each of those decisions ladders up to the strategy the more meaningful the impact of the work.
Watching people proclaim no impact on strategy but thinking they deserve tons of credit for their code is a failure mode I’ve seen with engineers. Watching people get frustrated not being promoted when “idiot peers” get credit was often more about their own idiocy.
Don’t dismiss the impact you have in every role, it’ll hurt your career and the actual impact you have.
I feel like we have phrases in software like bikeshedding particularly because these sorts of problems are common in teams. It’s not about being idiots it’s about software being more art than science and these things just being hard and people wanting to treat it more like science than art.
As a software engineer I think you need a good balance of both. Strategy that never sees the light of day isn’t that good. Part of the great joy of the art of being a software engineer is putting your stuff out into the world and showing it.
- Software engineers - we have a rails and react stack
- Product & Design
- Lifecycle & Copywriter & Content Marketing
We're also hiring OIRs & EIRs. Our OIR & EIR programs is for experienced professionals to take 6 - 12 month roles working with our community and writing blog posts, teaching classes, and running events. OIRs should have significant experience in tech and reached levels in product, engineering, and marketing like Staff SWE or Group PM or Director and EIRs should have experience as Principal, VP or C level in a unicorn or better tech company.
You can apply directly or talk to me (CTO: run product, eng, and design) matt (at) reforge (dot) com.
Reforge | Engineering, Strategy Leads, Product, Content Designers | Full Time | Remote (Prefer US) | https://www.reforge.com/careers
Reforge helps people in tech do the best work in their career. We have an awesome community of experts and learners who started with Growth related programs, moved to Product and Marketing proper, and will be launching Engineering this spring. Company is self funded and doing great and we're hiring again.
Engineering: Full stack react + ruby.
Product: Community focused product managers who love learning and teaching.
Strategy Leads: We have a team who works with experts in their field to turn their insights into actionable content (https://www.reforge.com/careers/strategy-lead). Must be a strong synthesizer and writer.
Content Designers: Work with strategy leads to create the visuals for the frameworks and story to tell.
If interested, reach out to me (no agencies please): matt (at) reforge (dot) com
I'm CTO and Head of Product & Design so will get you to the right place quickly.
Most of them do this. Like in the recent bashing of a bunch of senators for market insider trading a few of them had their money in blind trusts invalidating the criticism. One of them was Feinstein.
Credit Karma | almost all roles and levels (entry level jobs not available til next year) | SF, LA, Charlotte, London, Leeds | Full Time, On-site | https://creditkarma.com/careers
Credit Karma is a unicorn (4B+ valuation) personal finance product that champions financial progress for its members. I’ve been there for almost four years and seen it grow from startup to powerhouse and it’s been the best job I’ve ever had. We are hiring in each of our offices for SWEs and leaders and we’d love to have you. I’m particularly looking for folks who want to join our team in LA for an as yet unannounced business and in the UK in either Leeds or London to help us win our second international market. If you are interested in personal finance, machine learning, scala, react, kotlin, beam, swift, kafka, typescript, or Google cloud and have a growth mindset; boy do I have an amazing job for you.
I’m particularly looking for frontend / full stack web engineers in LA and platform engineers in the UK.
Apply online or email me directly at matt (at) creditkarma (dot) com. I’m one of our VPs of Engineering and lead international and other emerging verticals and I’d be jazzed to help you find a great team. I’ll apologize ahead of time if I don’t respond directly to everyone particularly new grads, the volume on these posts can be immense...
Credit Karma | almost all roles and levels | SF, LA, Charlotte, London, Leeds | Full Time, On-site | https://creditkarma.com/careers
Credit Karma is a unicorn (4B+ valuation) personal finance product that champions financial progress for its members. I’ve been there for almost four years and seen it grow from startup to powerhouse and it’s been the best job I’ve ever had. We are hiring in each of our offices for SWEs and leaders and we’d love to have you. I’m particularly looking for folks who want to join our team in the UK in either Leeds or London to help us win our second international market.
If you are interested in personal finance, machine learning, scala, react, kotlin, beam, swift, kafka, typescript, or Google cloud and have a growth mindset; boy do I have an amazing job for you.
I’m particularly looking for a couple frontend web engineers in LA and platform engineers in the UK.
Apply online or email me directly at matt (at) creditkarma (dot) com. I’m one of our VPs of Engineering and lead international and other emerging verticals and I’d be jazzed to help you find a great team. I’ll apologize ahead of time if I don’t respond directly to everyone particularly new grads, the volume on these posts can be immense...
Credit Karma | almost all roles and levels | SF, LA, Charlotte, London, Leeds | Full Time, On-site | https://creditkarma.com/careers
Credit Karma is a unicorn (4B+ valuation) personal finance product that champions financial progress for its members. I’ve been there for almost four years and seen it grow from startup to powerhouse and it’s been the best job I’ve ever had. We are hiring in each of our offices for SWEs and leaders and we’d love to have you. I’m particularly looking for folks who want to join our team in the UK in either Leeds or London to help us win our second international market.
If you are interested in personal finance, machine learning, scala, react, kotlin, beam, swift, kafka, typescript, or Google cloud and have a growth mindset; boy do I have an amazing job for you.
Apply online or email me directly at matt (at) creditkarma (dot) com. I’m one of our VPs of Engineering and lead international and other emerging verticals and I’d be jazzed to help you find a great team. I’ll apologize ahead of time if I don’t respond directly to everyone particularly new grads, the volume on these posts can be immense :)
Credit Karma | Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, Data Scientist, Director of Engineering, Native Engineers | San Francisco (SF), Charlotte, Los Angeles (LA) | Full Time
Credit Karma is the top finance app in both the iOS and Android app stores and has over 85M users in the US and Canada. We help people make progress on their finances focusing today on Credit/Debt and Taxes. We make a meaningful impact on people who are struggling today, it's worth looking into if you are somebody seeking a mission that isn't a first world problem.
We're a very successful company: valued over $4B, profitable, hit more than half a billion in revenue a few years ago, and we have a ton of technical problems to solve. We're hiring in basically every technical position, multiple roles. We run on a stack that's scala, typescript, react, swift, kotlin, php (legacy), kafka, google cloud, dataflow, kubernetes, finagle / thrift, and all sorts of fun stuff.
My name's Matt, I'm a VP of Engineering here at CK and I'd love to talk to you about our roles. Email me directly matt (at) creditkarma.com (dot) com.
Thanks!
P.S. we don’t have many open entry level roles and I’m sorry, maybe in 2018
Credit Karma | Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, Data Scientist, Director of Engineering, Native Engineers | San Francisco (SF), Charlotte, Los Angeles (LA) | Full Time
Credit Karma is the top finance app in both the iOS and Android app stores and has over 85M users in the US and Canada. We help people make progress on their finances focusing today on Credit/Debt and Taxes. We make a meaningful impact on people who are struggling today, it's worth looking into if you are somebody seeking a mission that isn't a first world problem.
We're a very successful company: valued over $4B, profitable, hit more than half a billion in revenue a few years ago, and we have a ton of technical problems to solve. We're hiring in basically every technical position, multiple roles. We run on a stack that's scala, typescript, react, swift, kotlin, php (legacy), kafka, google cloud, dataflow, kubernetes, finagle / thrift, and all sorts of fun stuff.
My name's Matt, I'm a VP of Engineering here at CK and I'd love to talk to you about our roles. Email me directly matt (at) creditkarma.com (dot) com.
Credit Karma | SF, Charlotte, LA (Onsite) potential for remote in Tahoe or Vegas | full time, many roles
CK is the top rated finance app in both app stores that helps people make financial progress. We started helping people with credit scores, getting them for free and improving their credit. We moved onto Free taxes and just did identity protection. So much more to come. We make money on referral fees for helping people get better financial products. It’s the best job I’ve ever had and I can’t recommend it more. It’s a highly successful unicorn (value over $4B) that has real revenue and challenging problems to solve. With over 80M US consumers we have a real shot to be _the_ financial app of the future. So much more to do with so much progress already.
We have over 450 engineers across security, native, web, data, product, and platform engineering. We are currently hiring across all of those disciplines.
Mid career, senior, staff, and principle engineers in all disciplines
backend engineers (our stack is google cloud based, services primarily in typescript and scala, Kafka, thrift/finagle rpc, bigtable, MySQL, big query, spark and Apache beam)
Frontend or full stack (the above plus react, redux)
Native (swift and react native on iOS, kotlin and react native on android)
Platform (kubernetes, google cloud, splunk, grafana, kafka, thrift / finagle, MySQL, bigtable, circle ci, git, developer efficiency)
Credit Karma - SF, LA, and Charlotte, NC | Onsite only
I'm a VP of engineering at Credit Karma. We offer people free taxes, credit scores, credit reports, and help find people the best loans and credit products they can get. We have over 80M consumers on our platform in the US and over 1M in Canada. I love the company, it's the best job I've ever had, and if you want to work for a mission positive company with a product people love that is on the road to greatness there is no better place to work.
We have positions across all sorts of roles and levels, feel free to reach out if you are curious and don't see a role posted.
* Mid, Senior and Staff Software Engineer
* Eng Manager
* Eng Director (both Product and Platform)
* Data Science
* iOS Engineer
* Android Engineer
* FrontEnd Engineer
* Full Stack Engineer
- We've generally filled our entry level positions, you can reach out if you want but its likely not for an opening we have immediately
Credit Karma | creditkarma.com | SF, LA/Venice, Charlotte | Onsite
CK is a highly successful unicorn ($3.5B) that’s passed product market fit (80M members) and is working to ascend to the next level. It’s an awesome place to grow your craft and at the right size to still feel your impact while having real reasons to deal with scale. Tech stack is Scala, typescript, php, react, kotlin, swift.
We are hiring for most things including a bunch of specialty positions:
Native (Android and iOS)
Security engineers
Data scientists
Web FE, fullstack, BE
I also am personally looking for a pair of engineering managers (one will likely be filled internally) and a director of engineering.
If interested reach out to me: matt at creditkarma.com
Disclaimer: we’ve already filled most of our entry level positions for the new year and won’t have a lot of positions for those looking.
Awesome to get all the attention. We've been working on this product for a bit, with everybody worried about this in a timely way we thought we'd push it out soon, and some social attention is great as launch is right around the corner. CK brought some evolution to free credit score years ago, last year we brought it to tax, and this year we start on the ID monitoring space. The hope is the same credit karma promise and package (always free, monitor the data, notify you if an issue comes up, give context on how to fix it, and try to help people make progress) works in this space. We're hiring a few more senior full stack engineers for the team and if you are interested in identity monitoring, dark web monitoring, data security, batch processing, and helping people we'd love to have you. Feel free to hit me up via email matt _at_ creditkarma.com.
Credit Karma | scala, node, react, swift, kotlin, graphql, spark, kafka, kubernetes, docker dozens of engineers being hired | full time | San Francisco and Charlotte, NC onsite only (relo provided) | https://engineering.creditkarma.com/
CK is a growing unicorn trying to make financial progress possible for everyone with free credit support and free taxes. With more than 70M users and hundreds of million dollars in revenue we are well into product market fit and are trying to evolve and scale our company for the future. There are a ton of interesting and innovative problems to solve and impact to have.
If interested email me, matt (at) creditkarma (dot) com.
I think if you can't get statistical significance than the growth team model is probably too early. You mostly need to be in the "invest" stage and not the "test" stage. That's not to say you can't try to hack merely that measuring through multivariate tests is a waste of time and effort.
It all comes down to knowing how a company makes decisions. What's the thing that sells. At most companies it is revenue, so you basically run experiments that correlate to revenue strongly and then use that causation to adopt new metrics. People like metrics that lead to their higher order KPIs a lot.