Senior Software Engineer - Credit Rewards Team
Marqeta is looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to independently identify and deliver software solutions on our Credit Rewards 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 solve ambiguous, open-ended problems. You will work in collaboration with your team and cross-functional partners.
The Rewards team in Credit Engineering is responsible for accurate and timely accrual and redemption of credit rewards. This is a high performing team working on the highest initiative project within Credit - the new rewards platform will allow our customers to customize every aspect of accrual, conversion, and redemption to match their loyalty goals.
We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely within the United States. 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 towards 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 Microservices.
- 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.
- 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 developing in Python.
- Experience building scalable software platforms.
Your Manager
Our (typical) process:
- Application submission
- Recruiter video call
- Coding interview
- Virtual “Onsite” consisting of three 45-60 minute rounds
- Offer!
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
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