Staff Software Engineer

MQ Referrals Only; Toronto; Remote; CAD 148,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading flexible technology company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Toronto, Ontario. The role requires 8+ years of experience in software development, expertise in Java, Python, or Go, and a strong capability to lead and mentor teams. Responsibilities include setting strategy, building backend systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The position offers competitive compensation and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Multiple health insurance options

Flexible time off

Retirement savings program

Equity in a publicly-traded company

Monthly stipend for remote work

Annual development support

Family-forming benefits

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 6 years with a Master's degree.
• Experience translating business needs into scalable software architectures.
• Strong ability to present clear and concise messages to various audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy and provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Build backend experiences for customers internal and external.
• Mentor a distributed team of engineers.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

DevOps

Infrastructure Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Job description

Marqeta is looking for a talented Staff Software Engineer to autonomously deliver ongoing business impact across a team product capability or technical system. You will own and deliver bi-annual / annual goals for your team be an expert at identifying the right solutions to solve ambiguous open-ended problems that require tough prioritization and define technical solutions or efficient operational processes that level up your team. You will be a strong leader within your team with your impact beginning to extend outside your team and will increasingly optimize beyond just your team by driving cross-team or cross-discipline initiatives.

The Account Management Team in Credit Engineering is responsible for accurate and timely processing of transactions maintaining the ledger managing the account calculating balances and statements. This is a high performing team working on the core platform within Credit. The team is responsible for the end-to-end ownership of products from design development release metrics reporting maintenance and scaling.

We work Flexible First . This role can be performed remotely within the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia preferably your current location being either Greater Toronto Area or Vancouver Metropolitan Region.

Learn more about our Product and Engineering team

The Impact Youll Have

• Lead : Play a key role in setting strategy and provide technical leadership on high-impact projects
• Innovate : Building out-of-this-world backend experiences for our customers internal and external
• Collaborate : Work closely with cross-functional peers and stakeholders to establish alignment and clarity around project goals roadmaps and deliverables
• Grow : Influence coach and mentor a distributed team of engineers
• Build : Define deliver and maintain large projects often involving cross-team dependencies

Who You Are

• 8 years of relevant experience with a Bachelors degree; or 6 years of experience with a Masters degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience. In lieu of a degree 11 years of relevant experience may suffice.
• Experience building a deep understanding of business needs and translating them into scalable efficient and secure software architectures.
• Expertise in at least one programming language- Java Python Go with a strong awareness of the ecosystem of tools and libraries supporting it.
• Experience building strong relationships in a remote setting ability to lead and mentor fellow engineers.
• Experience maintaining and supporting a highly available and accurate cloud-based distributed system.
• Strong 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.
• May focus on DevOps and Infrastructure Engineering and provide expert guidance on operationalizing services and implementations of the cloud infrastructure necessary to meet goals particularly as it relates to scaling resilience and global availability.
• Build new interfaces within the existing Marqeta Dashboard to support new Global customers and integrate with new API endpoints in GraphQL
• Embedded in a Scrum team of backend and Full Stack Engineers

Nice to haves

• Experience with scaling large transactional systems
• Experience with payments or the Fintech space

Our (typical) process :

• Application submission
• Recruiter video call with Prashant
• 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 : $148900 to $186100

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 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

Required Experience :

Staff IC

Key Skills

Campaigns,JSP,Dhtml,Loans,Automobile

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 148900 - 186100

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Staff Software Engineer • Toronto, Ontario, Canada