Manager, Software Engineering
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Posted on:
23-08-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. Were 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). Today nearly 8 out of 10 Americans use a product powered by Marqeta every week. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.
As an Engineering Manager on the Accounts team you will lead a group of talented engineers focused on enabling the lifecycle management of accounts businesses and users within our complex ecosystem. This team owns critical front-line APIs that empower our customers to shape precise lifecycle experiences for their end users and cardholders. You will coach and support your team drive technical direction and execution and partner cross-functionally to ensure our systems are robust scalable and flexible for future growth. The work is foundational to Marqetas architectural shift from a card-centric to an account-centric model unlocking future innovation across our money movement platform.
What you will do
- Develop a vision strategy and roadmap for the Accounts team in partnership with Product and other Engineering teams.
- Drive technical design implementation and operational excellence for the lifecycle management services and APIs owned by the team.
- Build and grow a high-performing inclusive team. Coach engineers in their careers and foster a culture of ownership innovation and collaboration.
- Collaborate across the organization to support key business initiatives and ensure alignment with company goals.
- Advocate and uphold engineering best practices with a focus on performance reliability maintainability and security.
- Define and track success metrics and SLAs ensuring the teams systems meet internal and external expectations.
- Participate in and guide production support incident response and continuous improvement efforts.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of software engineers including day-to-day execution career development performance management and hiring.
- Partner with engineering product and architecture stakeholders to define and execute on roadmap priorities.
- Implement and refine team processes that promote high-quality scalable software delivery.
- Lead and support technical planning and system design reviews.
- Drive accountability and excellence in system operations and service availability.
Qualifications
- Excellent communication collaboration and leadership skills.
- 7 years of software engineering experience.
- 2 years of experience managing technical teams.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex initiatives with multiple stakeholders.
- Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.
- Strong grasp of software design principles system architecture and operational excellence.
Nice to haves
- Domain experience in payments or fintech.
- Understanding of multi-tenant architecture and platform thinking.
- Experience with our tech stack including Java AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
Recruiter for This Role:
- Prashant S Senior Technical Recruiter
Our (typical) process:
- Application Submission
- Recruiter Video Call
- Engineering Leader Interview
- Virtual Onsite consisting of three 45-60 minute rounds
- Offer!
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 $148900 to $186100
We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. Thats 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
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Transform your business with Marqeta's modern card issuing platform. Our open API platform allows businesses to instantly issue cards and process payments.
