Marqeta · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$175K/yr - $246K/yr
10+ years expMarqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to enhance the developer experience. This role involves overseeing project design and development, promoting a data-driven culture, and mentoring junior engineers to improve productivity and developer happiness.
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Responsibilities
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 our community 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
Advocate and articulate your vision, key results and product strategy in simple and clear narratives, easy to connect and comprehend by your team, the developer community and engineering leadership
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
Use your extensive technical expertise to mentor engineers, to promote developer productivity within your team and across Marqeta
You will drive both the tactical and strategic roadmap for Marqeta Engineering, using data and customer feedback to increase efficiency, improve effectiveness, and meaningfully reduce operational toil across the organization
Establish and foster a data-driven engineering culture. Develop superior tooling and metrics to understand the health of our entire SDLC systems
Engage with key stakeholders across engineering and leverage data to establish objective measurement of Inner and Outer Loop Latency
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
Ship services and tools that delight our customers! Work with your direct and adjacent teams to deliver a delightful developer experience
Mentor and direct junior engineers to build scalable and self-serviceable solutions
Qualification
Required
10+ years of solid programming experience in Java, Python, Go, or similar programming languages to build large-scale distributed systems
BA/BS Degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience
Experience and deep understanding of effective and efficient SDLC workflows, particularly developer-oriented workflows. Hands-on experience in developing developer infrastructure, services, and workflows
Deep experience in driving vision, roadmap, and adoption of Developer Portal products such as Backstage
Experience with build systems such as Gradle, Maven, or Make, and familiarity with continuous integration and deployment tools such as CodeBuild, Jenkins, CircleCI or Github Actions
Understanding of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), and experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) is critical to this role
Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana. Plus points for experience in measuring software development productivity and quality
Excellent communication and presentation skills with an ability to communicate technical strategy and roadmap in a clear, precise, and actionable manner
Benefits
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
Through Flex First, the freedom to live and work wherever you and your family thrive
Company
Marqeta
Marqeta is a card issuing platform that provides infrastructure and tools to help companies build and manage payment programs.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (57)
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2023 (44)
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$530.11MKey Investors
MastercardCoatueICONIQ Growth
2021-06-09Post Ipo Equity
2021-06-09IPO
2021-04-23Series Unknown· $2.11M
Leadership Team
Mike Milotich
Chief Executive Officer
Heather Gantt-Evans
Chief Information Security Officer, SVP of Cybersecurity
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