About the position
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help us scale the technology as our business continues to grow, while staying focused on shipping software that matters to our customers and their end consumers. You will innovate on various aspects of the platform used by our engineering organization to deliver high quality, highly scalable, and highly secure products to our customers. Reporting to the Engineering Manager and working as part of the Risk Decisioning Engineering team, the Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing Marqeta’s risk engine and decisioning systems, helping Marqeta customers control their risk. Marqeta provides payment authorization decisioning, cardholder data security, instant card issuing, in-app provisioning directly to digital wallets, and real-time funding with our exclusive Just-in-Time (JIT) funding. 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 the United States. We’d love for you to join us!
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate experience leading the architecture, design and implementation for major complex distributed systems.
- Demonstrated experience/problems solved in the Fintech space.
- Build the engineering design and the scaffolding that junior and mid level engineers can take and do the in-fill.
- Create simple elegant solutions that scale and reduce complexity, including removing code.
- Lead from the front and own your system, including working with others.
- Articulate and define an architecture including diagraming, while presenting/debating with a diverse audience.
- Manage time effectively to delegate and provide opportunities for growth for others.
Requirements
- 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.
- Demonstrated software development (Java) and microservices architecture experience with real time event based processing.
- Java and Spring boot experience preferred but welcome experience in different programming languages.
- Platform engineering experience (AWS preferred) and Infrastructure as Code (we use Terraform).
- Demonstrated experience with deploying and maintaining distributed systems on AWS.
- Demonstrated passion to write code with great quality and test coverage.
- Demonstrated experience with Agile Scrum and TDD.
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
