Careers

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 Position

The Industry Lead at Cardlytics is responsible for developing and executing a cohesive industry strategy that adds value for our customers. This role involves building and managing VP+ client relationships with key accounts to drive growth, collaborating with cross-functional teams to secure new clients and expand existing relationships, and developing industry thought leadership based on our purchase insights and customer trends. The Industry Lead will also provide regular business reporting to stakeholders, hire and develop top talent, influence the product roadmap by highlighting client needs, and foster a collaborative and motivated team environment.

Experience

• 10 + years + successfully growing revenue through the development of strategic partnerships within digital advertisers w a heavy focus on retail

• Leading high performing enterprise sales teams; hiring, coaching, developing and retaining top talent 

• Revenue management experience- building industry plans, quotas, pipeline management and opex to achieve goals

• Experience in leading cross-functional teams to deliver against client problems (driving internal culture, alignment and accountability)

• Conducted annual (ideally multi-year) joint business planning & contracts with clients (and has a playbook) 

• Influencing decisions at the highest level with client (VP+) to create win-win outcomes 

• Partnered with Marketing & Enablement teams to create joint plans to support teams and deliver on client & revenue goals

• Understand financial metrics that drives their clients business, and the pipeline metrics that drives their own business and people 

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:

$210,000 - $265,000

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.       

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 Position

Cardlytics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Director of Engineering. The core data platform team is responsible for the data infrastructure that power the various products and offerings within Cardlytics.

Responsibilities:

• Developing new applications and features that provide data and data services to different teams within the enterprise, including engineering, data science, analysts, product, management/executives, and other business teams.

• Creating high-performance and scalable data platforms that can support multiple data pipelines to ingest and deliver data as quickly and reliably as possible.

• Writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code to ensure software quality.

• Building insights products using large amounts of financial data.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize software features.

• Participating in code reviews to ensure code quality and consistency.

• Conducting testing, debugging, and troubleshooting of software applications.

• Participating in the design and implementation of software architecture and infrastructure.

Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

• 6+ years of experience in software development

• Experience designing and building large scale distributed system

• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Scala, Java

• Backend software engineer with experience building large scale distributed systems

• Experience building reporting and scheduler systems

• Strong experience with Spark

• Experience working with Kafka, EMR, Airflow, Airflow, Hadoop or similar 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building Data Lake with Glue, Hudi, Druid, Flink is a plus 

You are:

• Able to express yourself and articulate your ideas clearly, thoroughly, and respectfully; you listen the same way, and you do both across all levels of the organization with confidence

• Able to offer opinions and make decisions with limited information; able to accept and manage risk and drive change

• Able to take abstract ideas, formulate an actionable strategy, and execute on time and on scope

• A self-starter: you drive projects forward with limited oversight

• Passionate: you have genuine interest and enthusiasm about data, data technologies, and solving data challenges

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:

$180,000 - $215,000

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.       

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 Ads Marketplace Optimization team focuses on delivering the best set of offers for every opportunity. By leveraging cutting edge machine learning techniques, the team is moving key metrics for the company and our customers through optimal offer selection/ranking, budget management, pricing.

About the Position
Cardlytics is seeking a Director of Engineering to join our team, reporting to the VP of Engineering.

Director of Engineering, Ads Marketplace Optimization set the vision for the team optimizing on Ads delivery for the Cardlytics Ads marketplace and lead the execution. This hands-on role requires someone with a proven track record in marketplace optimizations and strong experience in Machine Learning techniques used in AdTech. Proven impact on key metrics around user engagement, budget consumption and overall marketplace optimization will be highly valued. This is a critical responsibility which is at the heart of the core business for the company. The ideal candidate will also have strong influence and input on the general machine learning direction for the company.

Responsibilities:
You will:

• Work effectively with product and engineering teams to set the vision and shape the technical direction for the team and company.

• Build effective teams by leading, mentoring and growing a team of Machine Learning and Data engineers

• Lead design and develop of optimization concepts and workflows spanning from prototypes to operating at scale

• Deliver results by continually monitoring the day-to-day product development lifecycle.  

Minimum Qualifications

• Masters in Computer Science or equivalent

• 5+ years experience managing a team of experienced ICs comprising ML Scientists and Engineers

• 5+ years hands-on experience leveraging machine learning techniques and advancements in industry, with a proven impact on company metrics

• Demonstrated experience working with product leadership and others to drive a focused technical strategy, and driving positive changes while building trust and credibility across multiple areas of the business.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills 

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science or equivalent

• Proven track record in digital media and ad technology, including ads optimizations

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:

Salary Range: 260k - 285k

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.       

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 Position
The Partner Lead is an integral part of the Emerging sales team. Our team is in build and rebuild mode and this role has the opportunity to make a huge impact on the team’s success. They must be capable of developing strong relationships with their clients, deeply understanding their clients marketing objectives, creating and executing on strategic business plans to achieve those objectives, and ultimately maximizing the business opportunity for their clients and Cardlytics.

Cardlytics is seeking a Partner Lead to join our team, reporting to the VP, Industry Lead.

Responsibilities:

• Use your experience within the media or technology industry to secure new business wins, and drive growth from customers, that creates win-win situations

• Develop an industry relevant strategy driving new business,onboarding customers and being in-market (eg conferences & events) to exceed revenue goals and lead long-term growth for Cardlytics

• Create and deliver compelling sales presentations & story-telling with confidence

• Work with Cardlytics’ vast purchase data set as well as the analytics team to uncover insights and recommendations that will deepen our partnership with advertisers

• Partner with revenue operations, sales development, and customer success to strategically engage, onboard and grow customers by developing joint learning plans. 

• Foster existing customer relationships while engaging "upwards" and "out" with new stakeholders and decision makers 

Minimum Qualifications

• Digital advertising sales, with 3+ years of meeting and exceeding revenue targets
  primarily through hunting new business and developing long-term strategic partnerships

• Leveraging CRM tools to create and manage a pipeline that is consistently updated and accurate

• Data-driven selling, and you’re comfortable with business and media performance metrics

• Influencing decisions up and across an organization through excellent listening, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Results-oriented with a relentless focus on pipeline growth and revenue attainment

• A collaborator who can effectively partner across external and internal organizational teams

• Organized and able to coordinate multiple resources, priorities, and deadlines

• A strategic thinker who focuses on longer-term issues and opportunities to grow partnerships

• In love with data, and curious and passionate for any opportunity to prove the bottom-line profitability of advertising

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:

$100,000 - $125,000

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.       

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.

Location: Menlo Park, CA (Hybrid) or Remote - PST Time Zone

About the Team

At Data Infra, our goal is to streamline Cardlytics data consumption across the entire organization. We understand that accessible, reliable data underpins informed decision-making and innovative problem-solving. By partnering closely with teams, we tailor our solutions to fit their specific workflow needs and make strategic investments in our Data Infra platform to ensure swift access to data. Our approach is designed to not only simplify the way teams interact with data but also to accelerate time-to-insight, enabling Cardlytics teams to harness the full potential of their data for impactful outcomes.

About the Position
Cardlytics is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer, Data Infra to join our team, reporting to the Director Cloud & Data Infra.

As part of our growing team, you'll have the opportunity to work closely with cross-functional partners across the organization, leveraging your expertise to build innovative solutions that drive business impact. By joining us, you'll be at the forefront of shaping Cardlytics' data strategy and contributing to a culture of collaboration, experimentation, and continuous learning.

Responsibilities:

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with both data science and analytics functions to understand their current processes, identify workflow inefficiencies, and pinpoint areas where Data Infra investments could enhance self-service capabilities within Cardlytics.

• Infrastructure Audit & Assessment: Conduct a comprehensive audit of existing Data Infra, with a focus on identifying gaps that hinder the creation of self-service data environments for analytics teams and evaluating opportunities to improve infrastructure components like storage, processing power, and access mechanisms.

• Proof of Concept (PoC) Development & Evaluation: Design, execute, and evaluate PoCs aimed at addressing identified inefficiencies within the data science and analytics workflows, ensuring that these solutions are scalable and can be effectively rolled out across the organization.

• Technology Assessment: Research and assess technology vendors to determine the most suitable infrastructure upgrades or services that support self-service data needs and facilitate creation of derivative datasets.

• Infrastructure Optimization & Maintenance: Oversee the performance of Data Infra, making continuous improvements to ensure speed, scalability, reliability, security, and efficiency in serving both data science and analytics teams' requirements.

• Process Improvement & Documentation: Streamline existing processes related to data access, model deployment, and dataset creation by implementing automation solutions where appropriate and maintaining comprehensive documentation for ease of understanding and adoption.

• Change Management & Training, Innovation & Future Planning: Lead the transition to new infrastructure components, providing training and support to both analytics teams and software developers. Keep abreast of emerging trends in data infrastructure and MLOps to drive innovation within Data Infra, ensuring that Cardlytics remains at the forefront of data-driven decision-making.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in a related field

• Data Infrastructure Landscape: In-depth knowledge of modern data infrastructure components, including cloud services, databases (SQL/NoSQL), big data processing frameworks (Spark, Trino or similar), and data management architectures (Hudi, Iceberg or similar).

• Building Data Infrastructure Systems: Proven experience in designing, implementing, and managing robust data infrastructure systems that support the needs of both analytics and machine learning workflows.

• Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): Strong background in MLOps practices, with experience in automating the end-to-end lifecycle of machine learning models—from data preparation and model training to deployment and monitoring.

• Experience with Self-Service Data Organizations: A solid understanding of self-service data environments, including the challenges and best practices for catering to diverse user groups within an organization. Familiarity with tools and platforms that enable non-technical users to access and analyze data independently.

• Hands-On Technical Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with the tools and technologies used for building and scaling data infrastructure systems, including SQL/NoSQL databases, ETL processes, data warehousing solutions, and cloud services platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Expertise in Cloud Data Platforms (Snowflake, Databricks or similar): Hands-on experience with these platforms, including their architecture, data storage capabilities, performance tuning, security features, and integration points with other tools in the ecosystem (e.g., Notebooks, MLflow etc.).

• Data Operations Automation: Proficiency in automating data operations to improve efficiency, reduce manual work, and ensure consistent delivery of services within the data infrastructure ecosystem.

• Bachelor's degree in related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree preferred in Computer Science or related field

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:

$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.       

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 Core Data Platform team at Cardlytics is responsible for the data infrastructure that powers the various products and offerings within the company. This team develops high-performance and scalable data platforms, supporting multiple data pipelines to ensure rapid and reliable data ingestion and delivery. The work of this team is critical in providing data services to different teams within the company, enhancing customer loyalty and deepening relationships with our financial institution partners.

About the Position:
Cardlytics is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Director of Engineering - Core Data Platform Team. In this role, you will develop new data feeds and features, create scalable data platforms, and contribute to building insights products using large amounts of financial data. Your work will directly impact the efficiency and reliability of our data services, supporting various business functions across the organization. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and solve complex data challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Provide Technical leadership and mentor junior engineers

• Architecting and developing new applications and features that provide data and data services to different teams within the enterprise, including engineering, data science, analysts, product, management/executives, and other business teams.

• Creating high-performance and scalable data platforms that can support multiple data pipelines to ingest and deliver data as quickly and reliably as possible.

• Writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code to ensure software quality.

• Building insights products using large amounts of financial data.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize software features.

• Participating in code reviews to ensure code quality and consistency.

• Conducting testing, debugging, and troubleshooting of software applications.

• Participating in the design and implementation of software architecture and infrastructure.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s degree preferred in Computer Science or related field

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

• Proven track record in producing maintainable software implementations with highest quality

• 8+ years of experience in software development

• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Scala, Java or Python

• Experience in mentoring junior engineers and providing technical leadership

• Experience designing and building large scale distributed system

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skill

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Backend software engineer with experience building large scale distributed systems

• Experience building reporting and scheduler systems

• Experience working with AWS services, Kafka, EMR, Airflow, Spark, Spark on EKS, Hadoop or similar 

• Experience building Data Lake with Glue, Hudi, Druid or similar

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:

Posting Job Range: $240k - $275k base

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.       

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 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

Cardlytics has long-standing partnerships with some of the largest national banks as well as UK-based banks and neo-banks. We work closely with our bank and advertiser partners to align business goals, helping banks increase user engagement through our products and helping advertisers to increase sales. We drive internal products, self-serve products for multiple audiences, and external consumer experiences. The products are connected to facilitate functions such as creating and approving detailed campaigns, viewing insights and collecting offers. The Product Design team has a direct impact on all of these products and the experience of every one of our users.

As a Lead Product Designer, you will be part of the Product Team, working closely in cross-functional teams to create new and enhanced user experiences for our product platforms. 

About the Position
Location: US remote-friendly (Atlanta or EST time zone is preferred)
 

You will work on product designs, owning complex, high profile projects. Projects can include B2B management tools, data-aggregating dashboards with complex inputs and comparisons, or B2C shopping and reward interfaces that create a fun, easy experience for users. We are looking for someone who’s excited to delight users by simplifying complex flows into streamlined and rewarding experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and execution of product initiatives that simplify complex solutions in your product area

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, data analysts and business teams to iterate on new concepts and facilitate product execution

• Identify, research and drive strategic initiatives to advance your product area

• Periodically present your work to teams, stakeholders and clients; run research studies and feedback sessions

• Create versions of your product designs for presentations to clients and aid in the storytelling around the experiences

• Be the voice of users, balancing their needs with business objectives and client/partner goals

• Periodic travel to Menlo Park for Product team onsite planning meetings

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in UX or product design, leading impactful initiatives from ideation to execution 

• Well-versed in Figma (or a similar tool like Adobe Xd or Sketch), using auto-layout, component libraries, prototyping, etc

• A portfolio showcasing quality designs and problem-solving skills with a deep understanding of the user, business objectives and complex internal systems

• Knowledgeable of UX industry standards and trends, iOS, Android, responsive web

  Problem-solving skills, able to break down complex problems and transform into clean, intuitive user experiences

• Able to articulate strategic reasoning behind design decisions

• Shows organizational skills with strong attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• Independent worker, takes initiative with XFN team to keep work moving forward and find ways to enhance product with ongoing feedback, research and data

• Good listener, actionable with feedback

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

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.

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 Marketplace Ad Serving team is a crucial part of Cardlytics' technology infrastructure and business, responsible for powering the core platform—the Ads-Decisioning Engine (ADE). As the backbone of Cardlytics' advertising efforts, our mission is to build and maintain highly resilient, reliable serving systems that support 160 million monthly active users across 11 major U.S. banks and globally. We drive innovation throughout the ad-serving ecosystem using a modern, cloud-native, highly distributed AWS technology stack alongside other cutting-edge technologies. Our goal is to seamlessly accommodate our business’s exponential growth and ensure its long-term success.

About the Position:

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Marketplace Ad Serving team, you will play a pivotal role in the design and enhancement of the next-generation platform powering the Cardlytics Marketplace. This position offers extensive opportunities to work with advanced AWS technologies and collaborate with our Machine Learning scientists and engineers. You will work deeply with data orchestration, leveraging insights to drive impactful results as we navigate rapid growth. In this dynamic environment, you will help redefine ad delivery and optimize user engagement at scale, influencing millions of customers daily.

Cardlytics is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Director of Engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and architecture of robust, scalable software systems supporting Marketplace Ad Serving.

• Serve as a Technical Leader, driving engineering projects and collaborating closely with technical leads, product managers, sales teams, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver solutions aligned with strategic business objectives.

• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to gather and translate product and engineering requirements into technical specifications and actionable engineering plans.

• Implement and enhance the Marketplace Ad Serving platform to scale with the growing needs of the business.

• Own the full lifecycle of production deployments and adhering to best practices for CI/CD.

• Influence the technical direction of the team through data-driven experimentation and best engineering practices, driving innovation and iteration of the technology stack.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical/STEM field.

• 8+ years of experience in software development.

• Hands-on experience with Go, Python or Java.

• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, Glue, RDS, DynamoDB, Kafka, MSK, EMR, and EKS.

• Proficiency in SQL/NoSQL databases and big data processing frameworks (Spark), along with data management architectures (Hudi).

• Strong experience in distributed systems, microservices, web applications, and database management.

• Proven ability to design and build highly scalable, low-latency ad-serving platforms, particularly within the advertising industry.

• Experience in developing big data systems with open-source frameworks and tools like Apache Spark, Apache Hudi, and Apache Airflow, with proficiency in PySpark.

• Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining large-scale parallel applications.

• Proficiency in using software development tools/IDEs, testing methodologies, and documentation best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the advertising technology industry or related fields.

• Knowledge or experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, MLOps systems is a plus.

• Experience with C#/.NET is a plus.

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: $240,000 - $275,000

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.       

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.

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:

$210,000 - $240,000

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.       

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 Publisher team is responsible for building and maintaining an API platform enabling the world’s largest financial institutions to integrate with the Cardlytics purchase incentive platform. Working closely with peer engineering and product teams, Publisher Engineering ensures these APIs are robust and comprehensive, empowering partners to effectively leverage Cardlytics for maximum customer engagement and revenue. This team plays a crucial role in supporting smooth onboarding and continued success for these partners, creating the purchase channels that are core to the Cardlytics business.

Cardlytics is seeking a Software Engineer III to join our team, reporting to the Director of Engineering.

About the Position

As an SWE III, you’ll build APIs, platforms, and data ingestion pipelines that enable integration with some of the world’s largest financial institutions, supporting 160 million monthly active users. This role lets you see the direct impact of your work on revenue and engagement, with opportunities for mentorship and growth within a supportive, innovative environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, world-class, customer-facing interfaces and API services within a modern, cloud-native architecture in AWS 

• Creating high-performance and scalable data platforms that can support multiple data pipelines to ingest and deliver data as quickly and reliably as possible.

• Writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code to ensure software quality.

• Collaborate closely and build rapport with product, research, and engineering teams   

• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, and software development tooling

• Influence the technical direction of the team through conviction and experimentation

• Mentor other engineers

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science or a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience

• 2+ years building high-quality, distributed web applications, backend APIs, or full-stack applications in Java, Scala, C#, Python, or Golang

• Solid experience building software in a modular way for maximum reusability, scalability, and maintainability

• Experience with Cloud-based architectures, development, and deployment with providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or any other cloud provider

• Experience and deep knowledge of frameworks, tools/IDEs, testing, and documentation

• A solid computer science foundation including programming languages, data structures and algorithms, SQL and NoSQL databases, event-driven architecture using platforms such as Kafka or RabbitM

• Experience working with Spark, Kafka, EMR, Airflow, Hadoop or similar

• Commitment to continual learning of industry standards and trend

• Excellent communication skills in multiple team environment

• Comfortable in a culture of close collaboration and code review

• Excellent at problem-solving through insightful data analysis and logical deduction

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred 

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: $155,000 - $185,000

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.       

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 Publisher team is responsible for building and maintaining an API platform enabling the world’s largest financial institutions to integrate with the Cardlytics purchase incentive platform. Working closely with peer engineering and product teams, Publisher engineering ensures these APIs are robust and comprehensive, empowering partners to leverage Cardlytics for maximum customer engagement and revenue effectively. This team plays a crucial role in supporting smooth onboarding and continued success for these partners, creating the core purchase channels of the Cardlytics business.

Cardlytics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Director of Engineering.

About the Position

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll build APIs, platforms, and data ingestion pipelines to enable integration with some of the world’s largest financial institutions, supporting 160 million monthly active users. This role offers the chance to make a direct impact on revenue and engagement, along with opportunities for mentorship and growth within a supportive, innovative environment.
 

Responsibilities

• Design and develop world-class publisher-facing interfaces and API services deployed in AWS that are auto-scalable, self-contained, and modular

• Creating high-performance and scalable data platforms that can support multiple data pipelines to ingest and deliver data as quickly and reliably as possible.

• Writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code to ensure software quality.

• Collaborate closely and build rapport with product, research, and engineering teams   

• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, and software development tooling

• Influence the technical direction of the team through conviction and experimentation

• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience

• MS degree in Computer Science or a related field (or BS degree with 7+ years of relevant experience)

• 3+ years of experience leading and building distributed web applications, backend APIs or full stack applications in Java, Scala, C#, Python, or Golang

• 2+ years of experience with Cloud-based architectures, development, and deployment with providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or any other cloud provider

• 5+ years of experience and deep knowledge of frameworks, tools/IDEs, testing and documentation

• Solid experience leading and building projects E2E

• A solid computer science foundation including programming languages, data structures and algorithms, SQL and NoSQL databases, event-driven architecture using platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ

• Experience building reporting and scheduler systems

• Strong experience working with Spark, Kafka, EMR, Airflow, Airflow, Hadoop or similar

• Experience working with Identity providers and user access (authentication and authorization)

• Skilled and knowledgeable on high-performance, distributed data-intensive platforms

• Experience working in agile teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building Data Lake with Glue, Hudi, Druid, Flink is a plus

• Self-critical and constantly striving to improve on software design skills and coding skills

• Passionate about the ads ecosystem, with the willingness to learn about and adopt new concepts 

• Excellent at problem-solving through insightful data analysis and logical deduction

• Skilled and knowledgeable on high-performance, distributed data-intensive platforms

• A strong cross-functional team player, working with product and engineering counterparts to design and implement highly performant applications

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: $180,000 - $215,000

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.       

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 Platform Engineering team is responsible for the platforms that host production and development systems for Cardlytics. The team is responsible for CI/CD pipelines, software development process automation and production and test systems. This is a critical supporting function that powers all software development, data analytics, and AI/ML product teams at the company.
 

About the Position
This is a Principal Software Engineering role that will work on software development systems automation and infrastructure and platform as code. The position will be responsible for technical leadership in SDLC automation and IaC management in our AWS environment. This position also requires strong communication and interpersonal skills to coordinate with various internal customer teams.

Cardlytics is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our team reporting to the Director of Engineering, Developer Experience and Infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership in SDLC automation.

• Provide technical leadership in the design, implementation, and operation of infrastructure via IaC mechanisms.

• Coordinate with internal customer teams to understand requirements of new products and features.

• Lead the design of secure and cost-optimal SDLC systems.

• Participate in the evaluation of new technologies and products.

Minimum Qualifications:

• This position requires thorough knowledge of CI/CD processes, SDLC, expertise in GitHub automation (GitHub workflows and actions), and experience with AWS services. 

• Expertise with infrastructure as code products is required, preferably using Terraform HCL.

• Experience with managing Kubernetes clusters

Preferred Qualifications:

• GitHub experience with expertise in developing GitHub Actions and Workflows.

• IaC experience with Terraform.

• AWS experience, especially with EKS.

• Karpenter, and Helm experience.

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

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.