Marqeta
Senior Fullstack Software Engineer - Customer & Cardholder Experiences
We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join our Customer & Cardholder Experiences team, delivering innovative UIs and embeddable solutions to transform the experience of Marqeta’s customers and their cardholders. 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.
We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within Vancouver, Canada, or Ontario, Canada. We’d love for you to join us!
What you'll do
- Design, build, test, and continually improve Marqeta’s user interfaces and the backend services that support them.
- 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 medium components/features and participate in design for larger components/features (moving from task level impact to medium-size 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 hands-on software engineering with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 8 years experience. In lieu of a degree, 8+ years of relevant experience may suffice.
- 3+ years of backend experience in Java
- Experience with OAuth 2.0, JWTs, and user session management
- Experience in developing applications with modern Java backend stack using Spring Boot and Kubernetes on AWS.
- Experience both building and consuming RESTful APIs
- Experience with Javascript and Node.js
- Experience developing scalable microservices on cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail
- Strong collaboration and communication (verbal and written) skills. Can effectively work cross-functionally and deliver a project.
- Experience working in modern software engineering ecosystems that leverage frameworks, methodologies and technologies such as CI/CD, containerized apps, Agile (Scrum)
- 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
- Domain experience in Payments or Fintech industry in general
- Experience with third party identity platforms like Auth0
- Experience in developing scalable applications with at least one modern frontend technology such as Web Components, React, React Native / Flutter and ecosystem
- Experience with highly-available distributed systems, including sharding, replication, load balancing, and caching
- Experience with multi-region and geo-replication
- Experience with Elasticsearch or other search technologies
Your Manager
- Jamie Guidry, Manager Software Engineering
Your Recruiter
- Kayla Osuna
Typical Process
- Application submission
- Recruiter phone call
- Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls
- Offer!
Compensation & 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 and an Employee Stock Purchase Program
- 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
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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer that gives consideration to all qualified applicants regardless of race, ancestry, national origin, color, Indigenous, citizenship, religion/creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression marital status, family status, disability, veteran status, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Our dedication to diversity and inclusion extends beyond the categories above. Review Marqeta’s ESG Report to see that dedication in action. Fostering an environment where everyone feels valued and respected creates a stronger and more innovative team at Marqeta. We celebrate the unique contributions of each individual and empower all members of our organization. Join us in building a company where diversity thrives and everyone can be their authentic selves.
If you require reasonable accommodation for the application process and beyond (including due to a disability), please submit this form and we will be more than happy to assist you. Marqeta will make reasonable accommodations for candidates when needed in accordance with applicable law. The Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice applies to the personal data that you directly provide to us or that we collect during the application and candidate recruitment process.
