Senior Principal Software Engineer, Marqeta
Equity and an Employee Stock Purchase Program
Modern payment & card issuing solutions
Job no longer available
Modern payment & card issuing solutions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Equity and an Employee Stock Purchase Program
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the global standard for modern card issuing, empowering builders to bring the most innovative products to the world.
Role
Who you are
- Ability to keep technology skills sharp, and keep up to date on novel industry happenings, issues and threats
- Experience developing in Java and/or Python
- Experience with Microservices
- Experience with Java Spring Boot
- Experience in software delivery pipelines, CI/CD systems, and software deployment and orchestration systems such as Kubernetes and/or Docker
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server, Oracle, etc.)
- Production experience with modern engineering and cloud tools. (We use AWS)
- Experience with scaling large, transactional systems and data sharding
- Ability to break down silos within and across functions and influence others to reach the best outcome
- Ability to build deep cross-functional relationships, facilitate the right conversations, and settle disagreements by managing different viewpoints
- Ability to get buy-in and influence stakeholders across a variety of audiences
- 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
- Experience making technical trade offs and navigating technical complexities
- Experience investing time to coach and mentor
- 18+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 15 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 8 years experience. In lieu of a degree, 20+ years of relevant experience may suffice
- Ability to consistently demonstrate imaginative problem-solving abilities and strong technical judgment
- Understanding of when to pivot away from long term initiatives that don't create value and how to escalate appropriately
- Demonstration of technical problem-solving and judgment as well as the ability build products and infrastructure that will serve Marqeta well into the future
- Strong operational and business understanding
- Ability to act thoughtfully and decisively in critical situations even when making challenging or unpopular decisions
- Ability to model transparency by articulating the why behind decisions in clear documented form
- Mastery of technical, business and Marqeta wide product knowledge
- Mastery of communication, negotiation and influencing skills, and use those skills
- Ability to decompose significant problems in more than one product into simple reusable frameworks across multiple languages and problem domains
- Understanding of the end-to-end picture in which organizations develop applications and can recommend architectural changes or spot potential pitfalls in new design early
Desirable
- Experience with payments or the FinTech space
- Contributions to technical blogs, a public Github repo, or to open source projects
What the job involves
- Marqeta is looking for a talented Senior Principal Software Engineer to advance Marqeta to the state-of-the-art in multiple functional areas, likely cross-feature
- You will deliver results against a collection of company-level strategic business objectives of high complexity and are considered a force multiplier for an entire large product area or several cross-functional areas
- Serve as technical leadership for multiple significant projects or a single project which is critical at the feature team level or higher
- Apply technical contributions to actively move the definition of the product forward
- Foster and develop new technical leaders inside and outside your organization through mentorship, training, exemplification or any other means
- Operate at a high level and strongly influence executive decisions,
- Be hands-on when required
- Take full responsibility for delivering your vision through launch and landing
- Communicate and realize the vision for the next 18-36 months of technological direction
- Anticipate problems and solve them before they become fires
- Develop solutions that are recognized as best-in-class within and, sometimes outside of the company
- Scale yourself by training people up
- Work on the company's most challenging and deepest technical projects
- Produce significant design documentation as comprehensive solutions to complex problems
- Develop and drive architectural roadmaps along the dimensions of Scale, Velocity, and Trust
- Be a champion of engineering excellence, and hold work to the highest standards of quality and simplicity
- Design software components for the entire organization to use over the course over the course of the next 18-36 months
Application process
- Application submission
- Recruiter video call
- Hiring Manager video call
- Coding interview
- Virtual “Onsite” consisting of four 45-60 minute rounds
- Offer
Our take
Marqeta processes payments quickly, offering businesses a more straightforward way to take customer payments with its physical and virtual card solutions. The company has a string of major companies utilizing its flexible and scalable platform, including Uber, Doordash and Square.
The company is rapidly expanding in Europe, with strong growth in processing volumes and new partnerships, including major collaborations with firms like Trade Republic. It also partnered with Visa and Affirm to introduce the Visa Flexible Credential, allowing users to access multiple payment methods on one card.
With a focus on global growth and delivering innovative financial services, Marqeta is targeting new verticals and supporting underbanked businesses. With this aim, the company is on its way to deepening its impact in the fintech space and driving further innovation in payments.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
May 2020
$150m
LATE VC
May 2019
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $542.5m
Company benefits
- Praise: We believe in generously recognizing each other’s talents and contributions, and sharing the goodness we see
- Health and wellness: We cover your premiums for health, dental, and vision. Plus, your pet gets his/her/its own insurance, on us
- Flexible time off: We take time to relax and recharge when needed. We have unlimited time off for most employees and encourage an average of 5 weeks per year
- Marqeta paid family leave: We support all families. We offer 12 weeks of paid leave for all new parents and up to 20 for birthing parents. We also offer 4 weeks of caregiving leave
- 401k match: We invest in your future. We’ll match 50% of your contribution and up to 6% of your salary
- Meaningful equity: As owners of the company, we’re all in this together. Full-time employees will receive equity in Marqeta
- Giving back: We recognize we’re part of a larger community and encourage employees to donate their time and expertise to organizations they support
- Monthly stipend: You’ll get an additional monthly stipend on your paycheck to help fund your daily commute, cell phone, and/or internet connectivity
- Stock discount: The Employee Stock Purchase Program allows employees to buy discounted company stock
Company HQ
Northgate - Waverly, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Jason Gardner
(Founder & Board Member)Having studied at Arizona State University, worked in Management for Benettar Marble & Granite, NetManage and Gartner Group. Then founded PropertyBridge and spent 2 years at MoneyGram before founding Marqeta as CEO in 2010.
Mike Milotich
(CEO)Spent a decade at VISA, ultimately serving as SVP (Head of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations). Was also Commercial Analytics Lead for PayPal and a Senior Financial Analyst at Barclays Global Investors.
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