Staff Software Engineer, Marqeta

• 8+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years of experience with a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience. In lieu of a degree, 11+ years of relevant experience may suffice
• Experience building a deep understanding of business needs and translating them into scalable, efficient, and secure software architectures
• Expertise in at least one programming language- Java, Python, Go, with a strong awareness of the ecosystem of tools and libraries supporting it
• Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript and/or a front-end framework like React or Next.js
• Experience building strong relationships in a remote setting, ability to lead and mentor fellow engineers
• Experience maintaining and supporting a highly available and accurate cloud-based distributed system
• Strong 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
• May focus on DevOps and Infrastructure Engineering and provide expert guidance on operationalizing services and implementations of the cloud infrastructure necessary to meet goals, particularly as it relates to scaling, resilience, and global availability
• Build new interfaces within the existing Marqeta Dashboard to support new Global customers and integrate with new API endpoints in GraphQL
• Embedded in a Scrum team of backend and Full Stack Engineers

Desirable

• Marqeta is looking for a talented Staff Software Engineer to autonomously deliver ongoing business impact across a team, product capability, or technical system
• You will own and deliver bi-annual/annual goals for your team, be an expert at identifying the right solutions to solve ambiguous, open-ended problems that require tough prioritization, and define technical solutions or efficient operational processes that level up your team
• You will be a strong leader within your team with your impact beginning to extend outside your team and will increasingly optimize beyond just your team by driving cross-team or cross-discipline initiatives
• The Account Management Team in Credit Engineering is responsible for accurate and timely processing of transactions, maintaining the ledger, managing the account, calculating balances, and statements
• This is a high performing team working on the core platform within Credit
• The team is responsible for the end-to-end ownership of products from design, development, release, metrics, reporting, maintenance, and scaling
• Lead: Play a key role in setting strategy and provide technical leadership on high-impact projects
• Innovate: Building out-of-this-world backend experiences for our customers, internal and external
• Collaborate: Work closely with cross-functional peers and stakeholders to establish alignment and clarity around project goals, roadmaps and deliverables
• Grow: Influence, coach, and mentor a distributed team of engineers
• Build: Define, deliver, and maintain large projects, often involving cross-team dependencies

• Application submission
• Recruiter video call with Prashant
• Coding interview
• Virtual “Onsite” consisting of three 45-60 minute rounds
• Offer!