Remote Senior Software Engineer - Backend
at Marqeta

Summary

Join Marqeta as a Senior Backend Software Engineer to develop scalable software, create engineering design documentation, improve systems and processes, and collaborate with stakeholders. As a Backend Engineer, you'll ship products that matter and play an important role in helping Marqeta scale as the leader in modern card issuing.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years of experience with an advanced degree. In lieu of a degree, 8+ years of relevant experience may suffice
• Experience building scalable software platforms
• Experience developing in Java
• Experience working within Cloud environments, AWS preferred
• Experience with SQL
• Experience with Microservices architecture
• Experience working with distributed systems
• Experience making technical trade offs and navigating technical complexities
• Experience troubleshooting production issues
• Ability to decompose business problems into solutions that may require designs with multiple interacting components
• Ability to build correct, maintainable software components
• A focus on quality and meeting deadlines
• 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
• 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

• Define and deliver well-scoped milestones for projects
• 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 small-medium components/features and participate in design for larger components/features (moving from task level impact to small-medium 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

Benefits

• Multiple health insurance options
• Flexible time off – take what you need
• Retirement savings program with company contribution
• Equity in a publicly-traded company
• 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