Senior Software Engineer - Transaction Auditing

Senior Software Engineer - Transaction Auditing

Toronto, Canada

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Transaction Auditing team, you will design, build, and operate the systems that ensure penny-perfect accuracy, reliability, and compliance across Marqeta’s Transaction Domain. In this role, you will lead a small, high-impact scrum team responsible for the infrastructure, services, and APIs that guarantee the correctness of all financially-impacting transactions at Marqeta.

We are a team of diverse, agile-minded engineers who thrive on solving complex challenges and driving innovation at scale. Our work directly enhances Marqeta’s ability to process transactions with unmatched precision, speed, and operational efficiency.

We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely within British Columbia or Ontario Canada. We’d love for you to join us!

The Impact You’ll Have

• Design and implement high-performance solutions for large-scale, high-volume, and high-velocity financial data and complex compliance landscapes.
• Develop the software and infrastructure to achieve repeatable and efficient high-quality releases with automation, seeking opportunities to replace redundant tasks and enhance engineering focus on strategic challenges.
• Debug critical production issues across services and different stack levels.
• Apply a detail-oriented mindset to analyze data, detect patterns, and create well-organized documentation for non-technical audiences.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues across various services and system layers.
• Meticulously evaluate data, identify patterns, and communicate complex information clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Who You Are

• You have 5+ years of industry experience in software development in Java, service-oriented architectures, and cloud computing (AWS preferred).
• Experience developing in Java and Relational Database/SQL, however we welcome experience in other languages.
• Ability to develop and deliver clean, readable and error-free code with thorough documentation and testing.
• Ability to understand existing designs and technology choices and make appropriate adjustments when necessary.
• Ability 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.
• The ability to demonstrate humility, empathy, and to take constructive feedback positively.
• A desire to grow in your career, learn, share ideas and help others grow and learn.
• The capacity to work productively on cross-functional teams and take a collaborative, team-oriented approach.

Nice-To-Haves

• Experience with payments or the FinTech space
• Experience with Java Spring Boot
• Experience with Kubernetes and/or Docker
• Experience with big data analytics tools (i.e. - Snowflake) and stream processing architectures
• Contributions to technical blogs, a public Github repo, or to open source projects

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.

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: 91,500 - 114,400.

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

About Marqeta

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.

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.

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.

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