As the Staff Engineer of the team, you will have the chance to shape, transform, and create an exceptional experience for engineers at Marqeta. You will identify, develop, and lead strategic investments to accelerate development iterations, enhance productivity and promote developer happiness. You will boost developers' productivity through the successful adoption of AI-driven tools, and drive engagement by onboarding and expanding a world-class engineering org through learning and knowledge sharing. The successful candidate is a strong thought leader in the developer productivity space and an experienced software developer. You are a self-starter who will drive projects and lead junior engineers to achieve desired outcomes.
The Impact You'll Make
- Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment and craft of your team’s projects, ensuring the delivered solutions are highly relevant to developer productivity and happiness, something users cannot imagine life without.
- Promote and influence a data-driven culture across the organization. Use objective measurement as the primary means of communication, guiding project execution and decision making, and tracking progress.
- Build relationships across Engineering. Conduct regular DevEx surveys within Marqeta, use developers' feedback to build and prioritize a strategy and roadmap for your team, and for products that may span multiple teams and the entire company.
- Be able to articulate your projects, key results and product strategy in simple and clear narratives, easy to connect and comprehend by your team, the developer community and engineering leadership.
- Use your extensive technical expertise to mentor engineers, to promote developer productivity within your team and across Marqeta.
- Develop superior tooling and metrics to understand the health of our entire SDLC systems. Establish and foster a data-driven engineering culture.
- Solve problems for engineers by understanding their needs and devising both tactical and strategic solutions. Effectively reduce and minimize development latency across key product lines and the entire engineering organization at Marqeta.
- Establish objective measurement of Inner and Outer Loop Latency, pinpoint areas of friction and waste across SDLC and propose solutions to minimize latency. Leverage established metrics for evaluation, progress tracking and insight.
- To be successful, you need to be knowledgeable in a variety of technologies, tools and techniques:
- For example: VS code or IntelliJ, IDE plugins for linting, type-checking, testing framework, Static code analyses, SonarQube, Soargraphy, AI-assisted code review, and unit test generation tools, pre- and post- commit testing pipelines.
- Define DevEx survey questions and conduct DevEx surveys across the engineering organization in Marqeta, collect and analyze feedback and define areas of execution to achieve world-class developer experience for all Marqeta engineering teams.
- Provide practical, reliable self-service tools and Gen-AI apps to the engineering team. Improve how engineers develop, share, review, and merge code through best practices, automated testing, infrastructure, and processes.
- Work with developers to resolve their day-to-day issues, and direct junior engineers to build scalable and self-serviceable solutions to fix or mitigate these issues.
Who You Are
- 10+ years of solid programming experience in Java, Python, and C++ or similar programming languages to build large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with developing developer infra and service, including development and code collaboration environments, CI/CD platforms, and measuring software development productivity and quality. Deep understanding of the SDLC and related build and test systems.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with an ability to communicate technical strategy and roadmap in a clear, precise, and actionable manner, prior experience of creating and conducting new-hire training bootcamp with successful outcome.
- Experience with build systems such as Gradle, Maven, Bazel, or Make, and familiarity with continuous integration and deployment tools such as CodeBuild, Jenkins, CircleCI or Github Actions
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana.
- Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, understanding of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Ansible, experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure..
Nice-To-Have
- BA/BS Degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience
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. Compensation is aligned according to three tiers within the United States:
- National: A baseline tier that applies to most of the geographic territory of the United States.
- Premium: Slightly elevated from the National tier, and oriented toward a narrower set of higher cost-of-living areas, such as Los Angeles CA and Seattle WA
- Premium Plus: A tier for the most expensive working areas, like the San Francisco Bay area and New York City.
Visit this page or consult with a Recruiter to determine which tier would be applicable to you.
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 is:
- National: $165,300 - $206,600
- Premium: $179,000 - $223,700
- Premium Plus: $194,500 - 243,100
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 time off – take what you need
- Retirement savings program with company contribution and after tax contributions
- Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Family-forming benefits, fertility support, and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave
- Free therapy sessions, financial and professional coaching, and legal advice
- Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
- Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development
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). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.
Marqeta’s Values– Solve for the Customer: With a deep understanding of our customers' business and empathy for their needs, we deliver products and services that drive their success. Earning and keeping their trust guides everything we do.
– Do What's Right: Knowing businesses and livelihoods depend on us, we pursue solutions that disrupt responsibly and deliver high-quality results that our customers count on. We own our work from start to finish.
– Simplify and Innovate: We approach challenges with curiosity and take smart risks. Innovation comes from finding better, simpler ways to achieve extraordinary outcomes.
– Win as a Team: We succeed together by embracing diverse perspectives and pushing each other to raise the bar. We lead with humility and set aside hierarchy to work as a team.
– Make it Count: We drive forward with focus and agility. With a sense of urgency and purpose, we get the job done, and done right.
Equal Employment Opportunity, Accommodations and Privacy
Marqeta is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth, or related medical conditions), veteran status or uniformed service member status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Marqeta endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please submit this form with your specific accommodation request.
Personal data that is provided as part of the application and recruitment process is processed in accordance with the Applicant Privacy Notice. Additional information for California residents can be found here.
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