Marqeta is looking for a talented Senior Staff Software Engineer to independently identify and deliver software solutions on our Banking and Money Movement Team through a set of milestones spanning a specific product focus or a multi-component system. You will own and deliver projects in service of quarterly goals on the team and independently identify solutions to ambiguous, open-ended problems. You will work in collaboration with your team and cross-functional partners.
The Banking and Money Movement engineering team develops and optimizes financial services, including account creation, transaction processing, payment systems, banking integrations, reporting, and reconciliation. We work collaboratively to ensure secure, efficient, and innovative solutions that meet regulatory standards and enhance user experiences in moving the money.
We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely within the Ontario or British Columbia areas. We’d love for you to join us!
Learn more about our Product and Engineering team
The Impact You'll Have
- Lead the design and architecture of large-scale, complex systems and components, making decisions that impact both short-term and long-term product strategy.
- Take ownership of major technical initiatives, providing direction to teams while ensuring alignment with customer needs and business goals.
- Drive architectural improvements, optimizing for scalability, performance, and maintainability, while addressing both current and future system requirements.
- Mentor and guide other engineers, providing technical leadership and fostering an environment of growth, learning, and excellence across the team.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including product, design, and other engineering teams, to define and deliver high-impact solutions.
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the product, business needs, and user experience, ensuring that engineering decisions align with company goals.
- Independently drive the design and implementation of high-impact features and systems, ensuring high-quality deliverables with minimal supervision.
- Drive innovation and champion the adoption of best practices across the engineering team, while challenging the status quo to continuously improve processes.
- Be an advocate for software craftsmanship, ensuring code is clean, efficient, and aligned with the organization's architectural vision.
- Participate in setting the technical vision and long-term roadmap for your area of the product and ensure that the team is aligned with these goals.
Who You Are
- 10+ years of experience in backend engineering, with a strong foundation in system design and architecture.
- 3+ Experience with payments or the FinTech space.
- Proven experience leading technical projects and teams, with the ability to make decisions that drive the overall success of the product.
- Deep expertise in one or more backend technologies (e.g., Java, Python), and significant experience with web services, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience working with large-scale, high-performance, and reliable systems.
- Ability to break down complex business problems into elegant, scalable technical solutions, working with multiple interacting components.
- A strong track record of designing, building, and scaling maintainable, robust systems, ensuring high availability and minimal technical debt.
- Experience in creating and maintaining technical roadmaps, and providing leadership to ensure successful delivery of projects.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- A strong focus on quality and a commitment to meeting deadlines, while maintaining a high level of accountability.
- Experience in mentoring and guiding less-experienced engineers, fostering technical growth and fostering high-performing teams.
Nice to haves
- Production experience with AWS, Kubernetes, or other cloud platforms.
- Experience with building scalable software platforms.
- Experience leading teams through significant technical challenges and driving organizational change.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker/Kubernetes.
- Experience with Python or other modern programming languages.
- Experience in developing cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform
Your Manager
Your Manager
- Kayla Osuna - Senior Recruiter
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. Compensation is aligned according to three tiers within the United States:
- National: A baseline tier that applies to most of the geographic territory of the United States.
- Premium: Slightly elevated from the National tier, and oriented toward a narrower set of higher cost-of-living areas, such as Los Angeles CA and Seattle WA
- Premium Plus: A tier for the most expensive working areas, like the San Francisco Bay area and New York City.
Visit this page or consult with a Recruiter to determine which tier would be applicable to you.
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 is:
- National: $182,000 - $227,500
- Premium: $197,000 - $246,200
- Premium Plus: $214,100 - $267,600
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 and after tax contributions
- Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Family-forming benefits, fertility support, and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave
- Free therapy sessions, financial and professional coaching, and legal advice
- Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
- Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development
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 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’s ESG Report to 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.
If you require reasonable accommodation for the application process and beyond (including due to a disability), please submit this form and we will be more than happy to assist you. Marqeta will make reasonable accommodations for candidates when needed in accordance with applicable law. The Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice applies to the personal data that you directly provide to us or that we collect during the application and candidate recruitment process.
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