Marqeta is looking for talented Senior Backend Software Engineers to join our Engineering team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop scalable software that powers Marqeta's backend services. You will create and review engineering design documentation, continuously improve our systems, infrastructure, and processes, create features, review code, and collaborate with a diverse set of stakeholders across the company. As a Backend Engineer, you'll ship products that matter and play an important role in helping Marqeta scale as the leader in modern card issuing. You'll innovate on architecture, write impactful software and spend time mentoring other engineers.
At Marqeta, participation in a rotational on-call pager duty is a required part of the software engineering role. The specifics of the rotation may vary by team, depending on team size and structure, and will be discussed further during the interview process.
We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within Ontario or British Columbia, Canada. We’d love for you to join us!
This posting is for multiple Senior Software Engineering roles across Marqeta.
The Impact You'll Have
Define and deliver well-scoped milestones for projects and may be a technical lead for projects on your team.
Actively keep customer needs in mind and leverage input from product stakeholders to determine the right technical solutions to deliver customer value quickly.
Actively level up less-experienced members of your team by helping them with their craft, providing guidance, and setting a good example.
Independently write code that is clear with minimal bugs that captures the essential nature of the solution and is appropriately flexible, reusable, efficient, and adaptable to changing requirements.
Identify gaps and propose plans towards addressing those gaps.
Challenge the status quo and come up with innovative ideas.
Lead design for small-medium components/features and participate in design for larger components/features (moving from task level impact to small-medium project level impact).
Have significant ownership of a component/feature of the system.
Independently design software components in well scoped scenarios, with simplicity and maintenance as key considerations, ensuring components are testable, debuggable and have logical APIs that are not easily misused.
Participate in on-call coverage
Who You Are
5+ years of experience as a backend engineer with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years of experience with an advanced degree. In lieu of a degree, 8+ years of relevant experience may suffice.
Experience building scalable software platforms.
Experience developing in Java.
Experience working within Cloud environments, AWS preferred.
Experience with SQL.
Experience with Microservices architecture.
Experience working with distributed systems.
Experience making technical trade offs and navigating technical complexities.
Experience troubleshooting production issues.
Ability to decompose business problems into solutions that may require designs with multiple interacting components.
Ability to to build correct, maintainable software components.
A focus on quality and meeting deadlines.
Ability to present clear and concise messages tailored to various audiences; able to communicate in a clear, concise, and respectful manner both verbally and in writing.
Ability to share relevant information including if difficult task-level trade-offs that impact the product need to be made.
Ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders to identify technical blindspots and clarify ambiguity.
Nice to haves
Experience with payments or the FinTech space
Experience with AWS technologies
Experience in software delivery pipelines, CI/CD systems, and software deployment and orchestration systems such as Kubernetes and/or Docker
Contributions to technical blogs, a public Github repo, or to open source projects
Experience with unit testing / functional testing / integration testing
Experience building scalable software platforms.
Experience in end-to-end service ownership model including maintenance of infrastructure and familiarity with IaC technologies, CI/CD and observability tools (ie DataDog)
Our (typical) process:
Application submission
Recruiter video call
Coding interview
45 min Hiring Manager video call
Virtual “Onsite” consisting of three 45-60 minute rounds
Offer!
This position is for an existing vacancy.
Compensation and Benefits
Marqeta is a Flex First company which allows you to choose your best working environment, whether that be from home or at a company office. To support Flex First, we calibrate pay to a competitive value according to working location.
When determining salaries, we consider several factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior experience, and work location. The new-hire base salary range for this position, reflected in CAD, is: 116,000 - 145,000.
We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. That's why we award annual bonuses to eligible employees, rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company.
Along with monetary compensation, Marqeta offers
Multiple health insurance options
Flexible vacation time
Retirement savings program with company contribution
Equity in a publicly-traded company
Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development
Family-forming benefits and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave
About Marqeta
Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time. Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.
Marqeta’s Values
– Solve for the Customer: With a deep understanding of our customers' business and empathy for their needs, we deliver products and services that drive their success. Earning and keeping their trust guides everything we do.
– Do What's Right: Knowing businesses and livelihoods depend on us, we pursue solutions that disrupt responsibly and deliver high-quality results that our customers count on. We own our work from start to finish.
– Simplify and Innovate: We approach challenges with curiosity and take smart risks. Innovation comes from finding better, simpler ways to achieve extraordinary outcomes.
– Win as a Team: We succeed together by embracing diverse perspectives and pushing each other to raise the bar. We lead with humility and set aside hierarchy to work as a team.
– Make it Count: We drive forward with focus and agility. With a sense of urgency and purpose, we get the job done, and done right.
Equal Employment Opportunity, Accommodations and Privacy
Marqeta is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth, or related medical conditions), veteran status or uniformed service member status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Marqeta endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please submit this form with your specific accommodation request.
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