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Austin based. Global reach.

From our headquarters in Austin, TX, we operate 20 websites in 7 countries. Our technology powers hundreds of others, including Yahoo!, Kiplinger, LendingTree and Nasdaq.

We love being part of the Austin community. Discover what makes Austin a great place to live!

Big-company stability. Start-up attitude.

Now part of Bankrate, Inc. (NYSE: RATE), we can offer the benefits and stability of a large, profitable organization. But we’ve maintained the entrepreneurial spirit, curiosity and focus that were foundational to our success.

Our culture and people

We’re a small but energetic team that truly values work/life balance. The 60 (-ish) of us enjoy regular outings together - happy hours, grown-up spelling bees, paint ball and even a little karaoke. All this, and a company-stocked kitchen.

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Current career opportunities

Listed below are the current positions open at CreditCards.com. Please send resumes to careers@creditcards.com, indicating the position you are applying for in the subject line.

1. Solutions Architect

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Solutions Architect

About the Opportunity:
As a Solutions Architect, you will have an opportunity to have a great impact in designing and driving development to enhance our current solutions and innovate our future solutions. The primary focus of this position is to identify the specific development requirements, hardware requirements, and processes necessary to optimize a solution and drive the changes or additions of the solution. Solutions optimized and developed will both benefit internal groups in working more effectively and external consumers by providing effective tools and resources.

General Description:
This position is responsible for gathering software requirements developed by the marketing, sales, business development, and finance teams and developing a high level product requirements report and a detailed software requirements document for the software development organization for additional design, development, and testing activities. The Solutions Architect is also responsible for creating user acceptance testing criteria, managing testing sessions with end-users, and ensuring that the product developed meets the specifications and is deployed successfully

A successful candidate will have prior experience with software solution architecture, software development and product management lifecycle of software products, preferably from a Business Analyst, Marketing, and/or Project Management perspective. The candidate must be comfortable building inter-company relationships, an excellent communicator both orally and written, enjoy working with others, is fast paced, and is extremely detail oriented.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ability to efficiently determine root cause of issues
• Provide solution fixes to existing code base
• Architect integrated solution with our current infrastructure
• Gather software requirements and generate the appropriate documentation
• Interface with other departments to define internal and external products and projects
• Develop and Documents testing criteria for products and processes developed
• Drive specifications and deployment

Experience:

• More than 5 year of experience in architecting solutions in a Linux environment
• Basic knowledge of social media.
• Basic understanding of how affiliate marketing works
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English are essential.
• Attention to detail, curiosity and sense of humor required.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university
• Degree in Electrical, Electronic, Computer Engineering or Computer Science