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). Today nearly 8 out of 10 Americans use a product powered by Marqeta every week. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.
We are looking for Staff Software Engineers for the two teams below to own and deliver bi-annual/annual goals for the teams, 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 Customer Portfolio Enablement team would expect this individual to lead the Sandbox experience domain at Marqeta. This is an area where we are making big investments and are looking for an experienced and strong engineer with hands-on experience in building backend applications at scale.
The Core Platform team would expect this individual to autonomously deliver ongoing business impact across a team, product capability, or technical system. You will develop real time event based processing services
We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia, Canada preferably you residing in either Greater Toronto Area or Metro Vancouver. We’d love for you to join us!

WHAT YOU WILL DO?

• Design, develop, and maintain server-side applications and services using modern programming languages like Java
• Implement robust and scalable APIs, web services, and microservices that support various front-end applications and user interactions
• Help scale or rebuild world-class multi-tenant applications that our customers can rely on for their workflows
• Use hands-on experience with AWS (preferred) or other cloud infrastructure to build cloud native applications that scale and perform for the end users
• Optimize code and databases for performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Identify and resolve technical challenges and bottlenecks in the backend systems
• Work with large datasets, both structured and unstructured, and implement data storage and retrieval mechanisms
• Implement data security and privacy best practices to protect sensitive information
• Implement CI/CD pipelines in conformance with the existing frameworks and automate deployment processes to ensure smooth releases
• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems to ensure high availability and performance
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response when necessary
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for code, architecture, and data processes
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers and domain experts to deliver high-quality software solutions
• Mentor junior engineers in their short and long term growth and help the organization by improving its engineering efficiency