[PIPELINE] Senior Software Engineer - Backend

MQ Referrals Only; Remote; CAD 112,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to develop scalable software and play a key role in backend services. This position offers a chance to innovate and mentor others in a flexible work environment that adjusts to your needs. Required qualifications include substantial experience in backend engineering, building cloud-based solutions, and proficiency in SQL and microservices. The role entails owning components of the system while ensuring quality and efficiency in code delivery.

Benefits

Health insurance options

Flexible vacation time

Retirement savings program

Equity options in a public company

Monthly stipend for remote work

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend engineering.
• Experience with Cloud environments, preferably AWS.
• Proficiency in SQL and microservices architecture.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable software that powers backend services.
• Mentor less-experienced team members.
• Independently write clear, efficient code.

Skills

Backend engineering

Scalable software development

Cloud environments (AWS)

SQL

Microservices architecture

Troubleshooting production issues

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Marqeta is looking for talented Senior Backend Software Engineers to join our Engineering team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop scalable software that powers Marqeta's backend services. You will create and review engineering design documentation, continuously improve our systems, infrastructure, and processes, create features, review code, and collaborate with a diverse set of stakeholders across the company. 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. You’ll innovate on architecture, write impactful software and spend time mentoring other engineers.

At Marqeta, participation in a rotational on-call pager duty is a required part of the software engineering role. The specifics of the rotation may vary by team, depending on team size and structure, and will be discussed further during the interview process.

We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within Vancouver, Canada or Ontario, Canada. We’d love for you to join us!

This posting is for multiple Senior Software Engineering roles across Marqeta.

The Impact You’ll Have

• 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 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

Who You Are

• 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 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.

Nice to haves

• Experience with payments or the FinTech space
• Experience with AWS technologies
• Experience in software delivery pipelines, CI/CD systems, and software deployment and orchestration systems such as Kubernetes and/or Docker
• Contributions to technical blogs, a public Github repo, or to open source projects
• Experience with unit testing / functional testing / integration testing
• Experience building scalable software platforms.
• Experience in end‑to‑end service ownership model including maintenance of infrastructure and familiarity with IaC technologies, CI/CD and observability tools (ie DataDog)

Our (typical) process

• Application submission
• Coding interview
• Virtual “Onsite” consisting of three 45-60 minute rounds
• Offer!

Compensation and 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. To support Flex First, we calibrate pay to a competitive value according to working location.

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: 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.

Along with monetary compensation, Marqeta offers

• Multiple health insurance options
• Flexible vacation time
• 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

MQ - EEOC Voluntary Questions

At Marqeta, we strive to live our value of “Win as a Team,” where we seek various opinions and experiences as we build opportunities around equity, inclusion, and belonging. We ask candidates to respond to the below self‑identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. As set forth in Marqeta’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

Any information that you do provide will be anonymized and reviewed, strictly in aggregate, to find ways to improve our recruiting processes. To learn more about our job applicant privacy policy, please visit our website.

We’re also providing additional information and resources as you complete the form:

• Veteran Status: If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection.
• A “disabled veteran”
• A “recently separated veteran”
• An “active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran”
• An “Armed forces service medal veteran”
• Disability Status: You are considered to have a disability if you have a physical or mental impairment or medical condition that substantially limits a major life activity, or if you have a history or record of such an impairment or medical condition.

PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.