As an Engineering Manager in Core Edge Processing, you will oversee, develop, and scale the team which runs our cardholder facing real-time serving stack. You will coach the team, provide technical constraints, give performance related evaluative feedback and participate in the design and building of the next generation cloud first architecture.
This role can be performed remotely within the Toronto, ON or Vancouver, BC Metro Areas. We’d love for you to join us!
What You’ll Do
- Develop a vision, strategy, and roadmap to meet business objectives with existing or emerging technologies with other stakeholders and partners
- Work with team members and partners on analyzing technical and business problems (new or with existing systems) in the core payments edge platform identifying opportunities, designing ways to build new systems or make existing systems scalable, reliable, and performant to well serve customers, considering both short term and long term needs.
- Join forces with others on implementations, all the way to production deployment and execution.
- Demonstrate strong leadership. Build and grow a healthy, highly performant and customer-centric team, attract high talents, provide effective coaching to team members.
- Advocate and practice engineering principles including Security/Privacy, Quality, Reliability, Usability, Scalability/Performance, Productivity/Efficiency, and Operability.
- Define success metrics and service level objectives, as well as track them toward agreed targets and contractual customer facing obligations.
- Operational Excellence: monitoring & operating production services including understanding user experience and ensuring happy customers.
- Contribute to building Marqeta’s technology brand through internal and external initiatives.
The Impact You'll Have
- Manage a team of software engineers, including task planning, oncall scheduling, and similar as needed by the team
- Drive the execution and delivery of enhancements in collaboration with partner teams and peers across the organization including management, architecture owners, product owners, and developers
- Foster an environment of continuous improvement and learning
- Implement effective engineering processes and policies that emphasize quality and a culture of progress
- Provide mentorship and career development to the team
Who You Are
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and teaching skills
- 5-7 years of software engineering experience
- 2+ years of leadership experience in an engineering role
- Strong understanding of secure software development life cycle and agile methodologies
- Exemplary critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Proven experience in managing and delivering large-scale projects in a high throughput high availability environment
Nice to Have
- Payments processing experience including ISO8583 standards
- Expertise in TCP/IP or other network fundamentals
- Experience in Java
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience
Your Manager
- Andy Knapp, Director of Cloud Platform
Recruiter for the Role
- Kayla Osuna
Typical Process
- Application Submission
- Recruiter video call
- Hiring manager video call
- Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 5, 45-60 min calls
- Offer!
Compensation and Benefits
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: 148,900 - 186,100.
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
- 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
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
– Intentional Curiosity: We believe in asking the questions others shy away from. True progress comes from understanding today’s realities while challenging ourselves to do better and take on the status quo.
– Thoughtful Responsibility: We believe that every interaction with our technology and platforms matters. Businesses and livelihoods rely on our work, so we strive for excellence and accountability every day with the highest standards for failsafe technology and compliance.
– Innovative Simplicity: We believe that simplicity is powerful, especially in innovation—making a tool work better or finishing that feature that makes everyone smile. Our customers face a lot of complexity. We’re not here to add more.
– Shared Success: We believe the measure of our success is the success of our employees, customers, and communities. From local businesses to big corporations, our impact goes deep and wide. And we’ve got the results to prove it.
– Passion to Thrive: We believe anyone with a better idea should be able to change the game for our company and our customers. We solve big problems for our customers and draw energy from that challenge and opportunity.
Equal Employment Opportunity, Accommodations and Privacy
Marqeta is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that gives consideration to all qualified applicants regardless of race, ancestry, national origin, color, Indigenous, citizenship, religion/creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression marital status, family status, disability, veteran status, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Our dedication to diversity and inclusion extends beyond the categories above. Review Marqeta’s ESG Report to see that dedication in action. Fostering an environment where everyone feels valued and respected creates a stronger and more innovative team at Marqeta. We celebrate the unique contributions of each individual and empower all members of our organization. Join us in building a company where diversity thrives and everyone can be their authentic selves.
If you require reasonable accommodation for the application process and beyond (including due to a disability), please submit this form and we will be more than happy to assist you. Marqeta will make reasonable accommodations for candidates when needed in accordance with applicable law. The Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice applies to the personal data that you directly provide to us or that we collect during the application and candidate recruitment process.
