Senior Staff Software Engineer - Credit Karma

Company Overview

Job Overview

• Develop features and improvements for the various consumer facing products at Credit Karma using React and Typescript

• Define and drive the long-term Frontend architecture strategy across multiple product surfaces, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability at scale.

• Lead cross-team initiatives to standardize patterns, tooling, testing strategy, and frontend best practices across the organization.

• Integrate AI-powered solutions into both our engineering workflows and member-facing experiences

• Partner with Product, Design, Backend, and Platform teams to influence roadmap decisions and shape technical direction early in the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities

• Elevate engineering rigor by improving development workflows, CI/CD practices, observability, and operational excellence for frontend systems.

• Drive the evolution of our design system and component architecture to enable rapid, consistent product development across verticals.

• Proactively identify technical debt and organizational bottlenecks, and lead structured efforts to address them.

• Serve as a multiplier for the team — raising the bar through thoughtful code reviews, architectural guidance, and technical decision-making frameworks.

Qualifications

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)

• Strong command of modern HTML and CSS

• A solid foundation in OOP, design patterns, algorithms, programming languages

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient in TypeScript

• Experience with GraphQL

• Experience in microservices architecture, messaging patterns, and deployment models

• Experience in API design and building robust and extendable client/server contracts.

• Excitement for leveraging AI-assisted development tools to enhance developer productivity and championing their adoption across the frontend organization.

• Experience scaling frontend teams and processes in high-growth environments.

• Proven ability to mentor senior engineers and develop future technical leaders.

• Demonstrated impact beyond individual contributions — influencing standards, architecture, and engineering culture.

• Strong track record of driving alignment across multiple teams and managing competing priorities.

• Experience balancing product velocity with long-term platform sustainability.

• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building clarity where none exists.

• Ability to connect frontend architecture decisions to business outcomes and member experience.

• 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

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.