Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack Remote Job

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join our Credit Engineering team. This team owns several key components like the operations platform, notifications service for customer communications and our embedded UI solutions for our fully managed Credit customers. You will own and deliver projects in service of quarterly goals on the team and independently identify solutions to solve ambiguous, open-ended problems. You will work in collaboration with your team and cross-functional partners.

We workFlexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within the US or Vancouver, Canada, or Ontario, Canada. We’d love for you to join us!

The Impact You'll Have

• Design, build, test, and continually improve Marqeta’s user interfaces and the backend services that support them.

• 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 medium components/features and participate in design for larger components/features (moving from task level impact to medium-size 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 hands-on software engineering with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 8 years experience. In lieu of a degree, 8+ years of relevant experience may suffice.

• 3+ years of backend experience in Java

• Experience in developing applications with modern Java backend stack using Spring Boot and Kubernetes on AWS.

• Experience with Javascript and Node.js

• Experience in developing scalable applications with at least one modern frontend technology such as Web Components, React, React Native / Flutter and ecosystem

• Experience both building and consuming RESTful APIs

• Experience with SQL, data modeling, and database technologies (MySQL preferred)

• Experience developing scalable microservices on cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail

• Strong collaboration and communication (verbal and written) skills. Can effectively work cross-functionally and deliver a project.

• Experience working in modern software engineering ecosystems that leverage frameworks, methodologies and technologies such as CI/CD, containerized apps, Agile (Scrum)

• 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

• Domain experience in Payments or Fintech industry in general

• Experience with authentication solutions such as OAuth

• Experience with Elasticsearch or other search technologies

• Experience building SDKs
  
  

Your Manager

• Rohan Ranade
  
  

Your Recruiter

• Lizzie LaPonsey
  
  

Typical Process

• Application Submission

• Recruiter phone call

• Coding Interview

• Hiring Manager video call

• Virtual "Onsite" consisting of 4, 45-60min calls
  
  

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-hirebase salaryrange for this position, reflected in CAD, is:103,000-137,000.

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 time off – take what you need

• 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

– Intentional Curiosity:We believe in asking the questions others shy away from. True progress comes from understanding today’s realities while challenging ourselves to do better and take on the status quo.

– Thoughtful Responsibility:We believe that every interaction with our technology and platforms matters. Businesses and livelihoods rely on our work, so we strive for excellence and accountability every day with the highest standards for failsafe technology and compliance.

– Innovative Simplicity:We believe that simplicity is powerful, especially in innovation—making a tool work better or finishing that feature that makes everyone smile. Our customers face a lot of complexity. We’re not here to add more.

– Shared Success:We believe the measure of our success is the success of our employees, customers, and communities. From local businesses to big corporations, our impact goes deep and wide. And we’ve got the results to prove it.

– Passion to Thrive:We believe anyone with a better idea should be able to change the game for our company and our customers. We solve big problems for our customers and draw energy from that challenge and opportunity.

Equal Employment Opportunity, Accommodations and Privacy

Marqeta is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that gives consideration to all qualified applicants regardless of race, ancestry, national origin, color, Indigenous, citizenship, religion/creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression marital status, family status, disability, veteran status, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Our dedication to diversity and inclusion extends beyond the categories above. Review Marqeta’sESG Reportto see that dedication in action. Fostering an environment where everyone feels valued and respected creates a stronger and more innovative team at Marqeta. We celebrate the unique contributions of each individual and empower all members of our organization. Join us in building a company where diversity thrives and everyone can be their authentic selves.

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