Senior Software Engineer, Marqeta

• 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 in developing applications with modern Java backend stack using Spring Boot and Kubernetes on AWS
• Experience with Javascript and Node.js
• Experience in developing scalable applications with at least one modern frontend technology such as Web Components, React, React Native / Flutter and ecosystem
• 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 (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

Desirable

• We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join our Credit Engineering team.
• This team owns several key components like the operations platform, notifications service for customer communications and our embedded UI solutions for our fully managed Credit customers.
• 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
• 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

• Application Submission
• Recruiter phone call
• Coding Interview
• Hiring Manager video call
• Virtual "Onsite" consisting of 4, 45-60min calls