Principal Software Engineer, Engineering Experience

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Job description

Named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in the World in 2021, Marqeta powers innovative payment solutions for many of the apps and services you enjoy daily. Our open API modern card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for industry-leading companies such as Square, Coinbase, J.P.Morgan, and Uber, to issue cards, authorize transactions and manage payment operations in real-time.

We are a team of industry experts and technology innovators who take a dynamic approach to solving challenging problems. Marqeta is certified as a 2 Fortune Great Place to Work, highlighting our company culture and open and collaborative work environment. We power possibilities for our customers and each other by bringing the brightest talent together to do the best work of our lives.

Marqeta strives to build a global team as diverse as the markets we serve, staying true to our values: Connect the Customer, Everyone Belongs, Marqeta Cares, Lead Innovation, Deliver Results, Quality First and Build One Marqeta. We are not expecting any single candidate to meet all job requirements listed below, so please apply. It's an exciting time to join Marqeta. As we grow, your career and opportunities will grow as well. Learn more about Marqeta on our Website, Twitter and LinkedIn

Position Summary

Our Platform is built by developers for developers! Marqeta's platform enables payment authorization decisioning, cardholder data security, instant card issuing, in-app provisioning directly to digital wallets, and real-time funding with our exclusive Just-in-Time (JIT) funding.

As a Backend Engineer, you will help us scale the technology as our business continues to grow while staying focused on shipping software that matters to our customers. You will help to innovate on various aspects of the platform used by our engineering organization to deliver high quality, highly scalable, and highly secure products to our customers

As a Principal Engineer, we have a number of teams that work on challenges like:

• Building and driving the technical vision for new development platforms used across Marqeta to deliver our software
• Card Fulfillment, Cases/Disputes Management, Tokenization, Commercial Payments, On-boarding, SDKs
• Building a modern credit-issuing service to power the next generation of payment innovators
• Multiplying the force of Marqeta's product engineering by developing common foundational systems that are incorporated into all of Marqeta's products
• Web applications & products around fraud
  

What You'll Do

• Work with the organization and your product manager to build a long term technical vision for Marqeta's software development platform.
• Bring a metrics-focused mindset to infrastructure development that helps focus the team on building tools that create meaningful, measurable velocity for Marqeta's engineers.
• Build delightful platform tooling that helps Marqeta engineer's focus on solving business problems, not infrastructure problems.
• Help the team prioritize and ship features in line with your team's roadmap.
• Raise the skill sets of those around you and make Marqeta better through your presence. Mentor other engineers on the team, drawing on your experience to provide thoughtful direction.
• Apply and evangelize modern best practices in your software designs and implementations.
  

What We're Looking For

• We are hiring Software Engineers with 10+ years of engineering experience.
• We use Java, Python, & Go throughout the business but welcome experience in different programming languages.
• Experience in software delivery pipelines, CI/CD systems, and software deployment and orchestrations systems such as Kubernetes.
• Experience building scalable software platforms
• Experience with transactional RDBMS such as MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server, or Oracle. Any experience with scaling large, transactional systems and data shading would be welcome.
• A strong passion to write code with great quality and test coverage.
• Strong communication skills - including the ability to listen to the needs of others and comprehend complex matters, articulate issues in a clear and concise manner, and present effectively in both oral and written presentations to all levels in the organization.
• Team-oriented approach - can effectively lead a project or participate as an effective team member as well as work cross-functionally with other organizations.
  

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Payments
• Production Experience with modern engineering and cloud tools
• Having previously guided the transition of an organization from monolith-based development to microservices-based development
  

Benefits And Perks

• Rich suite of benefit plans; employee premiums paid 100%
• Flexible Time Off
• Paid Medical, Pregnancy, Parental and Family Leaves
• Retirement savings program with Company contribution
• Competitive pay
• Meaningful equity
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Free perks programs that include, financial coaching, and ID theft protection
• Bi-annual "Hack Week" to support and reward innovation
• Open, transparent culture that includes Town Hall meetings, Lunch-and-Learns and more!
• Access to corporate gym membership rates, other discounts and employee perks
• And for select regions; a monthly stipend to support our hybrid work model, and pet insurance
  

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Marqeta is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant, candidate, or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.

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