Director of Engineering

at Cardlytics
Engineering Group
Menlo Park, CA
Austin, TX
Full time

About Cardlytics
Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us!

Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a product-driven company that cares about three things: our people, our customers, and our partners. Together, we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital channels.

About the Team


The Lead-to-Cash team is responsible for the business systems and integrations with Cardlytics’ products. These business systems support critical day-to-day business workflows such as customer relationship management (CRM), sales management (quote, opportunity, pipeline, order), contract, forecasting, billing, invoicing and revenue management. We are a team at Cardlytics that helps streamline the complete cycle of customer acquisition, from lead generation to final payment and delivery for services. Our modern infrastructure and architecture were born as micro services in AWS.

About the Position


As the leader of the Lead-to-Cash team, you will lead the team to continue to build out, refine, operate and support our business systems (including Salesforce, NetSuite integration, billing system integration, DocuSign integration and more). You will define the product and technical vision, strategy and drive the execution. You will lead the building of scalable business systems and processes to support the growth of Cardlytics’ businesses globally. Example critical projects include our billing initiative to further simplify and standardize our Salesforce and billing domain models so they can easily support new product lines and business initiatives, as well as to fully automate contract generation. Your contributions will help us deliver against our budgets more accurately, allow sales to be more efficient, bill more quickly, and complete accounting milestones more efficiently.

The position can be based out of our Menlo Park, CA office on a hybrid basis or Remotely out of Austin, TX.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop and communicate a clear vision and strategy for the Lead to Cash process, ensuring alignment with the company's overall goals.
  • Create and maintain a detailed roadmap for Salesforce and Billing systems, prioritizing initiatives based on business impact and resource availability.
  • Collaborate with senior leadership, sales, finance, and other key stakeholders to ensure the engineering team's work aligns with business needs and priorities.
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Allocate resources effectively, balancing short-term project demands with long-term strategic initiatives.
  • Set performance goals, conduct regular reviews, and provide feedback to team members to drive individual and team growth.
  • Provide technical guidance and oversight for the design and implementation of Salesforce and Billing solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
  • Establish and enforce coding standards, best practices, and quality assurance processes to maintain high-quality codebases.
  • Stay current with industry trends and technologies, identifying opportunities for innovation and process improvement within the Lead to Cash process.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering or IT, with a strong focus on Salesforce and billing systems.

  • 5+ years of experience in a leadership role, managing engineering teams.

  • Proven experience in overseeing Lead to Cash processes, including CRM and billing systems.

  • Deep understanding of Salesforce architecture, products, and ecosystem.

  • Hands-on experience with Salesforce development, including Apex, Visualforce, and Lightning components.

  • Knowledge of billing systems, financial management systems (NetSuite) and their integration with other business systems.

  • Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies.

  • Hands-on development of microservices and full stack applications and deployment and operations on AWS

  • Proven experience with AWS-based, microservices architectures including experience with Lambdas, SQS, RDS, etc.

  • Working knowledge of common AWS networking components such as WAF, ALB, NLB, etc.

  • Strong domain modeling and design experience

  • Proficiency in databases and SQL

Core Values

Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates who embody these values:

  • Customer and Partner-first

  • Act with Urgency and Focus

  • Integrity with our partners and data

  • Accountability even when challenged

  • Empowerment over hierarchy

  • Growth over comfort 


Compensation

At Cardlytics salary ranges are determined based on factors such as role, level, and location. Individual compensation may be determined by relevant skills, experience, education, training, and other role-specific criteria. This salary range will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of the aforementioned factors.The base salary range provided below does not include bonuses and additional benefits.


The annual US base salary range for this role is:

Range: $260,000-$285,000

Benefits and Perks      

  • Flexible paid time off plus company holidays

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day

  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option

  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan

  • Educational assistance for continuing education

  • Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, emotional, and financial wellness (like gym memberships, home down payments, art classes, park passes, and more!)

  • Complementary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health and wellbeing

As an equal opportunity employer, Cardlytics is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life, and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and you’re excited about growing with us as we scale our best-in-class advertising platform, we’d love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please email recruiting@cardlytics.com or inform your recruiter.       

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