Senior Back-end Software Engineer - Remote

Overview

Marqeta is looking for talented Senior Back-end Software Engineers to join our Engineering team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop scalable software that powers Marqeta's backend services. You will create and review engineering design documentation, continuously improve our systems, infrastructure, and processes, create features, review code, and collaborate with a diverse set of stakeholders across the company. As a Backend Engineer, you'll ship products that matter and play an important role in helping Marqeta scale as the leader in modern card issuing. You'll innovate on architecture, write impactful software and spend time mentoring other engineers.

In Short

• 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.
• Have significant ownership of a component/feature of the system.
• Independently design software components in well scoped scenarios, ensuring components are testable, debuggable and have logical APIs.
• Participate in on-call coverage.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years of experience with an advanced degree.
• Experience building scalable software platforms.
• Experience developing in Java.
• Experience working within Cloud environments, AWS preferred.
• Experience with SQL.
• Experience with Microservices architecture.
• Experience working with distributed systems.
• Experience making technical trade offs and navigating technical complexities.
• Experience troubleshooting production issues.
• Ability to decompose business problems into solutions that may require designs with multiple interacting components.

Benefits

• Multiple health insurance options.
• Flexible vacation time.
• 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.