Job description
As a talented Senior Software Engineer, you will own the delivery of high-impact projects that advance our team’s strategic goals while maintaining exceptional quality standards. You’ll leverage your software design expertise to decompose complex business problems into well-designed solutions with multiple interacting components. You will mentor and elevate less-experienced engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and leading by example.
The mission of the Transaction Excellence team is to ensure every change to our Core Transactions platform meets the highest standards of quality and reliability, fostering an engineering culture of confidence over fear. Through a comprehensive and layered testing methodology that spans functional and performance testing, we balance rapid product delivery with rigorous quality standards, strengthening customer trust and accelerating Marqeta’s ability to enable strategic use cases.
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!
Learn more about our Product and Engineering team
The Impact You’ll Have
- Craft efficient, reusable code that solves complex problems independently
- Design maintainable components with clear, testable APIs
- Partner with stakeholders to resolve technical ambiguities, balancing details with the big picture
- Engage in team processes including agile ceremonies, code reviews, and on-call rotations
- Champion improvements to projects and processes
- Foster team community and mentor junior engineers
Who You Are
- Strong CS fundamentals with 5+ years backend engineering experience
- Proficiency in Object-Oriented languages like Java
- Ability to deliver clean, well-tested code with thorough documentation
- Skill in evaluating and adapting existing designs and technology choices
- Clear, concise communication skills both written and verbal
- Receptiveness to feedback with demonstrated humility and empathy
- Commitment to continuous learning in technology and payments domain expertise
- Quality-focused mindset with testing and performance engineering experience
- Collaborative approach to cross-functional teamwork
Nice to haves
- Payments or FinTech experience
- End-to-end service ownership experience including infrastructure maintenance, IaC, CI/CD, and observability tools like Datadog
Your Manager
- Janan Siam, Senior Manager. Core Platform Engineering
Our (typical) process:
- Application Submission
- Recruiter Video Call
- Coding Interview and Hiring Manager Interview
- Virtual “Onsite” consisting of three 45-60 minute rounds
- Offer!
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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: 112,000 - 140,000
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
– 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.
Personal data that is provided as part of the application and recruitment process is processed in accordance with the Applicant Privacy Notice. Additional information for California residents can be found here.
