Staff Software Engineer - Transaction Engine

February 21

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Marqeta

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Marqeta is a modern card issuing platform that enables businesses to create and manage debit and credit card solutions seamlessly. It provides flexible payment processing solutions, including digital wallets and tokenization, along with dynamic spend controls and real-time decisioning capabilities. Marqeta is tailored for enterprises across various industries such as digital banking, expense management, and online marketplaces, helping them enhance customer loyalty through innovative financial experiences.

Virtual and Physical Cards • Tokenization • On Demand Delivery • API • Alternative Lending

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2010

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

🛍️ eCommerce

📋 Description

• Marqeta is looking for a talented Staff Software Engineer to autonomously deliver ongoing business impact across a team, product capability, or technical system. • You will own and deliver bi-annual/annual goals for your team, be an expert at identifying the right solutions to solve ambiguous, open-ended problems that require tough prioritization, and define technical solutions or efficient operational processes that level up your team. • You will be a strong leader within your team with your impact beginning to extend outside your team and will increasingly optimize beyond just your team by driving cross-team or cross-discipline initiatives. • You’ll be joining the Transaction Engine Foundation team, who are responsible for the automation, operation and innovation of Marqeta’s card issuing platform. • You’ll be able to straddle the application/infrastructure divide, and be right in the heart of our journey from a EC2-based platform to one that is completely running on Kubernetes. • This team operates at the center of everything Marqeta does, and there is endless opportunity to make a sizable impact across your team and the whole business.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years of experience with a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience. In lieu of a degree, 11+ years of relevant experience may suffice. • Ability to write clean code that captures the essential nature of the solution and is appropriately flexible, reusable, efficient, and adaptable to changing requirements. • Ability to ensure high code quality in code reviews and actively look for scalability and/or resiliency gaps, and security vulnerabilities. • Strong awareness of the ecosystem of tools and libraries supporting your primary programming language and development environment and a strong grasp of the idioms and patterns of your language. • Ability to effectively and quickly debug cross-module issues. • Ability to create coherent designs with multiple components interacting across API or system boundaries. • Capability to roll out a component or major feature (and deprecating an existing system or feature) reliably. • Experience developing in Java and/or Python, however we welcome experience in other programming languages. • Experience with the automation and operation of large-scale Kubernetes/Docker deployments • Experience with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server, Oracle, etc.). • Production experience with modern engineering and cloud tools. (We use AWS, but welcome other cloud experience) • Ability to build relationships and drive coordination across teams. • 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. • Experience making technical trade offs and navigating technical complexities. • Experience mentoring other Engineers.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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