Staff Software Engineer, Marqeta
Developer Experience
$174.7-246k
Salary is dependent on location. + Equity
Modern payment & card issuing solutions
Open for applications
Modern payment & card issuing solutions
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$174.7-246k
Salary is dependent on location. + Equity
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
- A successful candidate is a strong thought leader in the developer experience/productivity space and an experienced software developer. You are a self-starter who will drive projects and lead junior engineers to achieve desired outcomes
- 10+ years of solid programming experience in Java, Python, Go, or similar programming languages to build large-scale distributed systems
- BA/BS Degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience
- Experience and deep understanding of effective and efficient SDLC workflows, particularly developer-oriented workflows. Hands-on experience in developing developer infrastructure, services, and workflows
- Deep experience in driving vision, roadmap, and adoption of Developer Portal products such as Backstage
- Experience with build systems such as Gradle, Maven, or Make, and familiarity with continuous integration and deployment tools such as CodeBuild, Jenkins, CircleCI or Github Actions
- We primarily operate in the cloud and follow industry best practices for virtualization, and infrastructure-as-code tools. Understanding of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), and experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) is critical to this role
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana. Plus points for experience in measuring software development productivity and quality
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with an ability to communicate technical strategy and roadmap in a clear, precise, and actionable manner
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer in the team, you will have the opportunity to shape, transform, and create an exceptional experience for engineers at Marqeta. You will identify, develop, and lead strategic investments to accelerate development iterations, enhance productivity and promote developer happiness
- You will boost developers' productivity through the successful adoption of streamlined SDLC tools & services, AI-driven tools, and drive engagement across Marqeta engineering
- Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment and craft of your team’s projects, ensuring the delivered solutions are highly relevant to developer productivity and happiness, something our community cannot imagine life without
- Promote and influence a data-driven culture across the organization. Use objective measurement as the primary means of communication, guiding project execution and decision making, and tracking progress
- Advocate and articulate your vision, key results and product strategy in simple and clear narratives, easy to connect and comprehend by your team, the developer community and engineering leadership
- Build relationships across Engineering. Conduct regular DevEx surveys within Marqeta, use developers' feedback to build and prioritize a strategy and roadmap for your team, and for products that may span multiple teams and the entire company
- Use your extensive technical expertise to mentor engineers, to promote developer productivity within your team and across Marqeta
- You will drive both the tactical and strategic roadmap for Marqeta Engineering, using data and customer feedback to increase efficiency, improve effectiveness, and meaningfully reduce operational toil across the organization
- Establish and foster a data-driven engineering culture. Develop superior tooling and metrics to understand the health of our entire SDLC systems
- Engage with key stakeholders across engineering and leverage data to establish objective measurement of Inner and Outer Loop Latency
- Conduct DevEx surveys across the engineering organization in Marqeta, collect and analyze feedback and define areas of execution to achieve world-class developer experience for all Marqeta engineering teams
- Ship services and tools that delight our customers! Work with your direct and adjacent teams to deliver a delightful developer experience
- Mentor and direct junior engineers to build scalable and self-serviceable solutions
- Your Manager: Aldo Hadiwijaya, Senior Engineering Manager - SDLC / Developer Experience
Application process
- Recruiter for the Role: Kayla Osuna
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 8 rounds)
May 2020
$150m
LATE VC
May 2019
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $541.3m
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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