Senior Software Engineer - Credit Rewards Team

MQ Referrals Only; Toronto; Remote; CAD 95,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Toronto is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Credit Rewards Team. This high-performing role requires technical leadership and a strong focus on delivering software solutions efficiently. The engineer will independently solve complex problems and work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure customer needs are met. Offering a flexible first approach to work, the company provides a competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for growth.

Benefits

Multiple health insurance options

Flexible time off

Retirement savings program with contribution

Equity in a publicly-traded company

Monthly stipend for remote work

Annual development funds

Up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave

Qualifications

• 5 years as a backend engineer or equivalent relevant experience.
• Ability to build maintainable software components.
• Experience at a SaaS based product company is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver well-scoped milestones for projects.
• Independently write clear and efficient code.
• Lead design for components/features and participate in on-call coverage.

Skills

Microservices

Distributed Systems

Quality Focus

Clear Communication

Problem Decomposition

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Job description

Marqeta is looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer to independently identify and deliver software solutions on our Credit Rewards Team through a set of milestones spanning a specific product focus or a multicomponent system. You will own and deliver projects in service of quarterly goals on the team and independently identify solutions to solve ambiguous openended problems. You will work in collaboration with your team and crossfunctional partners.

The Rewards team in Credit Engineering is responsible for accurate and timely accrual and redemption of credit rewards. This is a high performing team working on the highest initiative project within Credit the new rewards platform will allow our customers to customize every aspect of accrual conversion and redemption to match their loyalty goals.

We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely within the United States. Wed love for you to join us!

Learn more about our Product and Engineering team

The Impact Youll Have

• Define and deliver wellscoped 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 lessexperienced 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 smallmedium components / features and participate in design for larger components / features (moving from task level impact to smallmedium 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 oncall coverage

Who You Are

• 5 years of experience as a backend engineer with a Bachelors degree; or 3 years of experience with an advanced degree. In lieu of a degree 8 years of relevant experience may suffice.
• Experience with Microservices.
• Experience working with distributed systems.
• Experience working at a SaaS based product company.
• Ability to decompose business problems into solutions that may require designs with multiple interacting components.
• Ability to 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 tasklevel tradeoffs that impact the product need to be made.
• Ability to work with crossfunctional stakeholders to identify technical blindspots and clarify ambiguity.

Nice to haves

• Experience with payments or the FinTech space.
• Startup experience.
• Production experience with AWS.
• Experience building scalable software platforms.

Your Manager

• Maureen Long Senior Manager Software Engineering

Our (typical) process :

• Application submission
• Coding interview
• Virtual Onsite consisting of three 4560 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 newhire base salary range for this position reflected in CAD is : .

We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. Thats 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 publiclytraded company
• Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
• Annual development dollars to support our people growth and development
• Familyforming benefits and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave

Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

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