Manager, Software Engineering - Core Edge Processing

Marqeta, Inc.; Toronto; Remote; CAD 148,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Engineering Manager, where you'll lead a dynamic team in developing cutting-edge cloud-first architecture for a leading cardholder-facing platform. This role involves not only technical oversight but also fostering a culture of continuous improvement and mentorship. With a focus on security, quality, and performance, you'll drive significant projects that impact customer experiences. The organization values its employees, offering flexible time off, health benefits, and opportunities for professional growth. If you're passionate about technology and leadership, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Multiple health insurance options

Flexible time off

Retirement savings program

Equity in a publicly-traded company

Monthly stipend for remote work

Annual development dollars

Family-forming benefits

Up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of software engineering experience with 2+ years in a leadership role.
• Strong understanding of secure software development and agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and scale a team of software engineers while driving project execution.
• Develop strategies to enhance the core payments edge platform.

Skills

Software Engineering

Leadership

Communication

Problem Solving

Agile Methodologies

Critical Thinking

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Java

Terraform

Job description

Manager, Software Engineering - Core Edge Processing

Toronto, Canada

As an Engineering Manager in Core Edge Processing, you will oversee, develop, and scale the team which runs our cardholder facing real-time serving stack. You will coach the team, provide technical constraints, give performance related evaluative feedback and participate in the design and building of the next generation cloud first architecture.

This role can be performed remotely within the Toronto, ON or Vancouver, BC Metro Areas. We’d love for you to join us!

What You’ll Do

• Develop a vision, strategy, and roadmap to meet business objectives with existing or emerging technologies with other stakeholders and partners.
• Work with team members and partners on analyzing technical and business problems (new or with existing systems) in the core payments edge platform, identifying opportunities, designing ways to build new systems or make existing systems scalable, reliable, and performant to well serve customers, considering both short term and long term needs.
• Join forces with others on implementations, all the way to production deployment and execution.
• Demonstrate strong leadership. Build and grow a healthy, highly performant and customer-centric team, attract high talents, provide effective coaching to team members.
• Advocate and practice engineering principles including Security/Privacy, Quality, Reliability, Usability, Scalability/Performance, Productivity/Efficiency, and Operability.
• Define success metrics and service level objectives, as well as track them toward agreed targets and contractual customer facing obligations.
• Operational Excellence: monitoring & operating production services including understanding user experience and ensuring happy customers.
• Contribute to building Marqeta’s technology brand through internal and external initiatives.

The Impact You'll Have

• Manage a team of software engineers, including task planning, oncall scheduling, and similar as needed by the team.
• Drive the execution and delivery of enhancements in collaboration with partner teams and peers across the organization including management, architecture owners, product owners, and developers.
• Foster an environment of continuous improvement and learning.
• Implement effective engineering processes and policies that emphasize quality and a culture of progress.
• Provide mentorship and career development to the team.

Who You Are

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and teaching skills.
• 5-7 years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of leadership experience in an engineering role.
• Strong understanding of secure software development life cycle and agile methodologies.
• Exemplary critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Proven experience in managing and delivering large-scale projects in a high throughput high availability environment.

Nice to Have

• Payments processing experience including ISO8583 standards.
• Expertise in TCP/IP or other network fundamentals.
• Experience in Java.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience.

Your Manager

• Andy Knapp, Director of Cloud Platform.

Compensation and Benefits

When determining salaries, we consider several factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior experience, and work location. The new-hire base salary range for this position, reflected in CAD, is: 148,900 - 186,100.

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.

Along with monetary compensation, Marqeta offers:

• 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.

About Marqeta

Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time. Marqeta is powering the most well-known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that.

Equal Employment Opportunity, Accommodations and Privacy

Marqeta is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that gives consideration to all qualified applicants regardless of race, ancestry, national origin, color, Indigenous, citizenship, religion/creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression marital status, family status, disability, veteran status, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.