Staff Software Engineer – Banking and Money Movement

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $174.7k - $218.4k / year

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Marqeta

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2010

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-06

Fintech • B2B • Payments

Marqeta is a leading modern card issuing platform that empowers businesses to integrate comprehensive credit and payment solutions seamlessly into their processes. Specializing in debit, credit, prepaid, and virtual cards, Marqeta provides dynamic spend controls, Just-in-Time (JIT) funding, and ensures compliance and risk management. The platform supports digital wallets, tokenization, and embedded finance, catering to industries such as digital banking, expense management, and on-demand services. With its open APIs, Marqeta facilitates the creation and management of card products, offering scalability and flexibility for enterprises ranging from startups to global companies.

📋 Description

• Lead the design and architecture of large-scale, complex systems and components, making decisions that impact both short-term and long-term product strategy. • Take ownership of major technical initiatives, providing direction to teams while ensuring alignment with customer needs and business goals. • Drive architectural improvements, optimizing for scalability, performance, and maintainability, while addressing both current and future system requirements. • Mentor and guide other engineers, providing technical leadership and fostering an environment of growth, learning, and excellence across the team. • Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including product, design, and other engineering teams, to define and deliver high-impact solutions. • Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the product, business needs, and user experience, ensuring that engineering decisions align with company goals. • Independently drive the design and implementation of high-impact features and systems, ensuring high-quality deliverables with minimal supervision. • Drive innovation and champion the adoption of best practices across the engineering team, while challenging the status quo to continuously improve processes. • Be an advocate for software craftsmanship, ensuring code is clean, efficient, and aligned with the organization's architectural vision. • Participate in setting the technical vision and long-term roadmap for your area of the product and ensure that the team is aligned with these goals. • Participate in on-call coverage.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in backend engineering, with a strong foundation in system design and architecture. • 3+ Experience with payments or the FinTech space. • Proven experience leading technical projects and teams, with the ability to make decisions that drive the overall success of the product. • Deep expertise in one or more backend technologies (e.g., Java, Python), relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server, Oracle, etc.), and significant experience with web services, microservices, and distributed systems. • Experience working with large-scale, high-performance, and reliable systems. • Ability to break down complex business problems into elegant, scalable technical solutions, working with multiple interacting components. • A strong track record of designing, building, and scaling maintainable, robust systems, ensuring high availability and minimal technical debt. • Experience in creating and maintaining technical roadmaps, and providing leadership to ensure successful delivery of projects. • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. • A strong focus on quality and a commitment to meeting deadlines, while maintaining a high level of accountability. • Experience in mentoring and guiding less-experienced engineers, fostering technical growth and fostering high-performing teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• Multiple health insurance options • Flexible time off – take what you need • Retirement savings program with company contribution and after tax contributions • 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 • Through Flex First, the freedom to live and work wherever you and your family thrive