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Senior Software Engineer - Banking and Money Movement Team

Toronto, Canada

Marqeta is looking for a talented Senior 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

  • 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 for addressing those gaps. 
  • Challenge the status quo and come up with innovative ideas.
  • Lead design for small-medium components/features and participate in design for larger components/features (moving from task level impact to small-medium 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 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.
  • Experience developing in Java.
  • Experience with Web Services and Microservices.
  • Experience with SQL.
  • Experience working with distributed systems.
  • Experience working at a SaaS based product company.
  • Ability to decompose business problems into solutions that may require designs with multiple interacting components. 
  • Ability to to build correct, maintainable software components.
  • A focus on quality and meeting deadlines.
  • A strong grasp of the libraries, platforms, and systems.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • Experience with payments or the FinTech space.
  • Startup experience.
  • Production experience with AWS. 
  • Experience with K8s  / Kubernetes. 
  • Experience developing in Python.
  • Experience building scalable software platforms.

Your Manager

Your Recruiter

  • Kayla Osuna

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 - 14,000.

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

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