Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Marqeta's Disputes Engineering Team as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to building and improving the services supporting Marqeta’s dispute management platform. You will design, build, test, and enhance services, define project milestones, and act as a technical lead. Collaborate with stakeholders, actively mentor junior engineers, and write clean, efficient code. This role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, proficiency in Java and backend development, and experience with modern software engineering ecosystems. The position offers flexible work arrangements (remote in Toronto or Vancouver), competitive salary (CAD 112,000-140,000), annual bonuses, multiple health insurance options, flexible time off, retirement savings, equity, parental leave, 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. In lieu of a degree, 8+ years of relevant experience may suffice
• 3+ years of backend experience in Java
• 3+ years of full stack/frontend experience
• 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 SQL, data modeling, and database technologies (MySQL preferred)
• Experience developing scalable microservices on cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP
• 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 the services that support Marqeta’s Dispute management platform
• 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

• Experience working with React.js
• Experience with payments or the FinTech space

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
• 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
• 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