Senior Fullstack Software Engineer

Summary

Join Marqeta's Customer & Cardholder Experiences team as a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, delivering innovative UIs and solutions. You will own and deliver projects, solve complex problems, and collaborate with cross-functional partners. This flexible role can be performed remotely in Vancouver or Ontario, Canada. Responsibilities include designing, building, and improving user interfaces and backend services, defining project milestones, and mentoring team members. The ideal candidate possesses extensive software engineering experience, expertise in Java and related technologies, and strong analytical and communication skills. Marqeta offers competitive compensation, including a base salary range of CAD 112,000-140,000, annual bonuses, multiple health insurance options, flexible time off, and various other benefits.

Requirements

• 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 with OAuth 2.0, JWTs, and user session management
• Experience in developing applications with modern Java backend stack using Spring Boot and Kubernetes on AWS
• Experience both building and consuming RESTful APIs
• Experience with Javascript and Node.js
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Domain experience in Payments or Fintech industry in general
• Experience with third party identity platforms like Auth0
• Experience in developing scalable applications with at least one modern frontend technology such as Web Components, React, React Native / Flutter and ecosystem
• Experience with highly-available distributed systems, including sharding, replication, load balancing, and caching
• Experience with multi-region and geo-replication
• Experience with Elasticsearch or other search technologies

Benefits

• Marqeta is a Flex First company which allows you to choose your best working environment, whether that be from home or at a company office
• To support Flex First, we calibrate pay to a competitive value according to working location
• The new-hire base salary range for this position, reflected in CAD,  is: 112,000 - 140,000
• We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. That's why we award annual bonuses to eligible employees, rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company
• Multiple health insurance options
• Flexible time off – take what you need
• Retirement savings program with company contribution
• Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
• Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development
• Family-forming benefits and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave