Principal Software Engineer, OLTP (Remote OK)

Company: Marqeta, Inc.
Location: Oakland
Posted on: February 22, 2021

Job Description:

Principal Software Engineer, OLTP (Remote OK) Named as a Forbes Fintech 50 the last two years in a row, Marqeta powers innovative payment solutions for many of the apps and services you enjoy daily. Our modern card issuing platform, open API, and advanced analytics provide unprecedented control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions and manage payment operations in real-time. We are a team of industry experts and technology innovators who take a dynamic approach to solving challenging problems. We power possibilities for our customers by bringing the best talent together in an open and collaborative work environment that rewards creativity and perseverance. Marqeta is proud of its Oakland roots and Denver growth plans and strives to build a global team as diverse as the markets we serve, staying true to our values: Connect the Customer, Everyone Belongs, Marqeta Cares, Lead Innovation, Deliver Results, Quality First and Build One Marqeta. We are not expecting any single candidate to meet all job requirements listed below, so please apply. It's an exciting time to join Marqeta. As we grow, your career and opportunities will grow as well. Position Summary Our Platform is built by developers for developers! Marqeta's platform enables payment authorization decisioning, cardholder data security, instant card issuing, in-app provisioning directly to digital wallets, and real-time funding with our exclusive Just-in-Time (JIT) funding.-- As a Principal Software Engineer in the Foundation Infrastructure team, you will help us scale the technology as our business continues to grow while staying focused on shipping software that matters to our customers. You will help to innovate on various aspects of the platform used by our engineering organization to deliver high quality, highly scalable, and highly secure products to our customers As a Principal Software Engineer, we have a number of teams that work on challenges like:

• Building a scalable, global, performant online data store system that can handle the needs of our high volume services and financial transactions
• Building and driving the technical vision for new development platforms used across Marqeta to deliver our software
• Building a modern credit-issuing service to power the next generation of payment innovators
• Multiplying the force of Marqeta's product engineering by developing common foundational systems that are incorporated into all of Marqeta's products
• Web applications & products around fraud -- Primary Responsibilities
  • Work with the organization and your product manager to build a long term technical vision for Marqeta's online transactional data systems.
  • Bring a metrics-focused mindset to OLTP system development that helps focus the team on building tools that create scalable, secure transaction storage and query systems for Marqeta engineers.
  • Build platform tooling that helps Marqeta engineer's focus on solving business problems, while abstracting OLTP scalability and connectivity problems.
  • Assist in planning to maximise data performance while minimizing cloud costs.
  • Help the team prioritize and ship features in line with your team's roadmap.
  • Raise the skill sets of those around you and make Marqeta better through your presence. Mentor other engineers on the team, drawing on your experience to provide thoughtful direction.
  • Apply and evangelize modern best practices in your software designs and implementations. Requirements
    • We are hiring Software Engineers with 8+ years of engineering experience.--
    • We use Java, Python, & Go throughout the business but welcome experience in different programming languages.
    • Experience with large scale, high performance, and secure online transaction processing systems.
    • Experience in modern OLTP connectivity patterns, data sharding and Java driver development for OLTP system connections.
    • Experience with transactional RDBMS such as MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server, or Oracle.
    • Experience building scalable software platforms for medium-sized engineering organizations.
    • A strong passion to write code with great quality and test coverage.
    • Strong communication skills - including the ability to listen to the needs of others and comprehend complex matters, articulate issues in a clear and concise manner, and present effectively in both oral and written presentations to all levels in the organization.
    • Team-oriented approach - can effectively lead a project or participate as an effective team member as well as work cross-functionally with other organizations.
    • Experience with payments and ledger systems.
    • Production experience with modern engineering and cloud tools, specifically around AWS
    • Rich suite of benefit plans; employee premiums paid 100%
    • Flexible Time Off--
    • Full paid Parental Leave
    • 401k plan with a Company match
    • Competitive pay
    • Meaningful equity
    • Monthly stipend--
    • Bi-annual "Hack Week" to support and reward innovation
    • Open, transparent culture that includes All Hands meetings, Lunch-and-Learns, all-company offsites, etc.
    • Access to corporate gym membership rates, other discounts and employee perks
    • Fully stocked kitchen, catered lunches twice a week, breakfast on Fridays and more! As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Marqeta is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, genetic information or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. If hired, can you provide evidence of legal eligibility to work in the U.S.? --*
      -- What is your experience with OLTP (Online Transactional Processing)? --*
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