Distinguished Software Engineer
Company: Marqeta, Inc.
Location: Oakland
Posted on: January 20, 2023
Job Description:
Position Summary
The payment industry is innovating faster than ever, and the trend
will continue thanks to extreme demands from everywhere in the
world and incredible technological advancements. Big data and
Machine Learning (ML)/AI technology are critical to this success.
Marqeta created the world's first modern card-issuing platform that
empowers innovators to change the world. With this API-based
platform, Marqeta partners/customers can instantly issue cards of
all types and process payments in real time. To make the Marqeta
platform and ecosystem serve customers well and continue to grow,
the Data team is responsible for developing Big data-related
technology/services and value-added data products. One product
example is our global Risk product, covering KYC/B, fraud risk
prevention & management, and disputes. Our technologies include
large-scale, reliable, and secure Data platforms in the cloud for
data acquisition, processing, enriching, serving, consumption, and
governance. Our payment data is one of the most valuable assets for
Marqeta and our customers. We invest in ML/AI, data processing,
analytics technology, and products to derive deep and actionable
insights and values from data to empower Marqeta internal teams and
external customers to grow faster and more effectively.
We are looking for a very strong, hands-on, and experienced
technical leader to lead the development in the areas mentioned
above. These will include architecture design, implementation,
production, and team building. This position reports to the SVP of
Data.
Suppose you are passionate about big data, large-scale platforms,
ML/AI, data processing, enriching, serving technology, and
value-added data products in the fast-growing payment space. In
that case, this is an ideal opportunity for you to lead,
contribute, impact, and further grow your career. As a key player
in our Data team, you will have the chance to influence and
contribute to our vision, direction, and strategy. You will be a
part of a motivated team, and develop our data platforms, including
ML/AI, and data assets, create value-added data products, and find
effective ways to empower internal and external partners/customers
to generate business values.
What You'll Do
- Demonstrated experience leading the architecture and design for
significant complex distributed data systems.
- Significant experience/problems solved in Fintech, preferably
in card issuing and payment processing and digital banking using
big data, large-scale data platforms, and ML/AI
technologies.
- You are in the code - no "PowerPoint architects." You will not
write all of the code, but you should be able to build the
scaffolding that mid-level engineers can take and do the
in-fill.
- Simple and scalable - you thrive on creating simple, elegant
solutions that scale and reduce complexity, including removing
code. Your solutions keep human toil/support to a minimum.
- Proven/demonstrable expert - people (from entry-level engineers
to business leaders) go to you for your experience, credibility,
and approachability. Your name comes up often because of your
capabilities and impact. At the same time, you teach people to fish
rather than fish for them.
- Excellent verbal and written communication - you must be able
to articulately define architecture & methodology, including
diagrams, while being able to present/debate with a diverse
audience.
- Time management - you will be in demand. How you manage your
time and ensure you can delegate/provide opportunities for growth
for others vs. getting involved where you have to is
imperative.
- Be an outstanding leader for the Data organization, and
represent the Data organization, especially on the technical
side.
- Provide technical leadership to the Data org to generate deep
and broad business impacts to Marqeta and Marqeta customers at
scale.
- Help the entire company build a robust data-driven culture, so
the company leverages the power of data for its faster
growth.
- You will work with team members and partners on analyzing
technical and new or existing business problems in a broad
range.
- Identify opportunities and design ways to build new systems or
make existing systems scalable, reliable, and performant to serve
customers well, considering both short-term and long-term needs.
Join forces with others on implementations, all the way to
production deployment and execution.
- Develop a vision, strategy, and roadmap to meet business
objectives with existing or emerging technologies related to big
data and insights, including data platforms and data products, by
partnering with other stakeholders and partners.
- Foster learning, innovation, leveraging and building on new
technologies, and a solid customer-centric service
mindset.
- Apply creative thinking/approach to determine technical
solutions that further business goals and align with company
strategies. Advocate and practice engineering principles, including
Security/Privacy, Quality, Reliability, Usability,
Scalability/Performance, Productivity/Efficiency, and
Operability.
- Guide and support team members on architecture design, problem
diagnostics/solving, and engineering/science best practices,
including automation.
- Demonstrate strong leadership by supporting the building and
growth of healthy and highly performant Data teams-aid in
attracting high-quality talent and providing effective coaching to
team members.
- Define success metrics and SLAs and track them toward agreed
targets.
- Operational Excellence: guide teams monitoring & operating
production services, including understanding user experience and
ensuring happy customers.
- Build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders/partners
across the company and external customers.
- Contribute to building Marqeta's technology brand through
internal and external initiatives.
What We're Looking For
- You have a Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as
computer science and computer engineering or equivalent years of
experience. A higher degree is a bonus.
- Experience demonstrating strong leadership, self-motivation,
accountability, and team player.
- You have 20+ years of industry experience in big data,
large-scale data platforms, and data science, including
ML/AI.
- Demonstrated ability to craft and deliver large complex
projects
- Strong experience and skills in hands-on IC
contributions/impacts helped companies move the needle
significantly.
- You possess a strong business and technical vision.
- Strong customer-centric mindset.
- Experience with agile development methodology.
- Strong at identifying problems, solving complex problems with
simple solutions
- You have solid experience in the architecture design of
large-scale, reliable, and performant systems/platforms and deep
expertise in using ML/AI technologies to solve challenging business
problems.
- Deep expertise and hands-on experience in big data platform
technology, especially the commonly used open-source packages,
including Spark, HBase, Kafka, Kubernetes, and ML/AI packages.
Experience with cloud technology.
- Technical background in big data with a deep understanding of
issues in multiple areas such as data management, data analysis,
data processing, data serving, query processing, distributed
processing, high availability, statistics, data mining, machine
learning, AI, and operational excellence of production
systems
- Vital at technical goal setting for a project with measurable
and actionable success metrics. Good knowledge and experience in
measuring and monitoring service from a user experience
angle.
- You are an exceptional collaborator and have strong building
partnerships skills.
- Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills. A
demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and
business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels
internally and externally.
Keywords: Marqeta, Inc., Oakland , Distinguished Software Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , Oakland, California
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