Senior Software Engineer - Remote

Overview

Marqeta is looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to deliver resilient and sustainable software projects from design to implementation and rollout. You will execute on defined projects to achieve team-level goals and work on and own minor features in support of larger features. You will contribute heavily to test development and bug fixing and may mentor new hires, interns, or more junior engineers.

In Short

• Design, build, test, and continually improve the services that support Marqeta’s Dispute management platform.
• 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.
• 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 hands-on software engineering with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD. In lieu of a degree, 8+ years of relevant experience may suffice.
• 3+ years of backend experience in Java.
• 3+ years of full stack/frontend experience.
• 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 SQL, data modeling, and database technologies (MySQL preferred).
• 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 skills.
• Experience working in modern software engineering ecosystems that leverage frameworks, methodologies and technologies such as CI/CD, containerized apps, Agile (Scrum).
• Ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders to identify technical blindspots and clarify ambiguity.

Benefits

• 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.
• Family-forming benefits, fertility support, and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave.
• Free therapy sessions, financial and professional coaching, and legal advice.
• Monthly stipend to support our remote work model.
• Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development.