Senior Software Engineer - Credit Rewards Team

Senior Software Engineer – Credit Rewards Team

Company	Marqeta
Location	Toronto, ON, Canada, Remote in USA, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Salary	$112000 – $140000
Type	Full-Time
Degrees	Bachelor’s, Master’s
Experience Level	Senior

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 developing in Java.
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 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.

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.