Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Marqeta as a Staff Software Engineer and make a significant impact on our card issuing platform. You will lead the design of large components and features, spearhead the migration to Kubernetes, and champion operational excellence. This role requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and the ability to collaborate across teams. You will mentor junior engineers and make key technical decisions aligned with long-term goals. The position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to work in a flexible environment.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years of experience with a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience. In lieu of a degree, 11+ years of relevant experience may suffice
• Ability to write clean code that captures the essential nature of the solution and is appropriately flexible, reusable, efficient, and adaptable to changing requirements
• Ability to ensure high code quality in code reviews and actively look for scalability and/or resiliency gaps, and security vulnerabilities
• Strong awareness of the ecosystem of tools and libraries supporting your primary programming language and development environment and a strong grasp of the idioms and patterns of your language
• Ability to effectively and quickly debug cross-module issues
• Ability to create coherent designs with multiple components interacting across API or system boundaries
• Capability to roll out a component or major feature (and deprecating an existing system or feature) reliably
• Experience developing in Java and/or Python, however we welcome experience in other programming languages
• Experience with the automation and operation of large-scale Kubernetes/Docker deployments
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server, Oracle, etc.)
• Production experience with modern engineering and cloud tools. (We use AWS, but welcome other cloud experience)
• Ability to build relationships and drive coordination across teams
• 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
• Experience making technical trade offs and navigating technical complexities
• Experience mentoring other Engineers

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in setting medium-to-long term strategy for business-impacting projects
• Lead the design of large components and large features
• Lead the effort to migrate our transaction processing flagship to Kubernetes, responsible for handling more than 100B in processing volume
• Bring operational excellence to everything you do and lead by example in this area for the team
• Autonomously define and deliver technical roadmaps of larger projects, often involving cross-team dependencies
• Actively keep customer needs in mind and leverage input from product stakeholders as available to determine the right technical solutions to deliver customer value quickly
• Actively mentor and support the development of less-experienced team members
• Have end to end accountability (not just implementing but you will be the one driving change process and bringing people along)
• Make technical decisions aligned with longer term needs, not just immediate requirements
• Lead without authority and through others
• Raise the engineering bar across the team
• Participate in on-call coverage

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with scaling large, transactional systems and data sharding
• Experience with payments or the FinTech space
• Experience with Microservices
• Experience with Java Spring Boot
• Experience in software delivery pipelines, CI/CD systems, and software deployment
• Contributions to technical blogs, a public Github repo, or to open source projects

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
• 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
• Annual bonuses to eligible employees, rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company