Marqeta - Manager, Software Engineering - Identity Platform
Requirements
• Experienced engineering leader (8–10+ years in engineering, 3+ years managing senior and staff engineers). • Deep backend engineering expertise, you have a strong foundation in building and scaling backend systems, and you can credibly engage with your engineers on architecture, performance, and design trade-offs. • Breadth across the stack, you've led teams delivering across multiple product lines and paradigms: from synchronous API services (Java/Spring Boot) to batch and event-driven ETL pipelines (Python/Airflow), and you know how to apply the right tool for each problem. • Operational excellence and incident management, you hold a high bar for system reliability and on-call hygiene, drive blameless post-mortems, and ensure your team can detect, respond to, and learn from incidents quickly. • Hands-on AI-first mindset: you embrace AI/ML to improve team velocity, drive automation, and reduce manual review rates. • Strong ownership mentality, you thrive in ambiguity and take full responsibility for outcomes. • Comfortable engaging directly with enterprise customers and compliance officers, translating technical decisions into clear narratives for non-technical stakeholders. • Excellent communicator who can lead cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders at all levels. • Nice-To-Haves • Deep understanding of identity verification, AML/BSA compliance, and regulatory obligations in the financial services or fintech space. • Experience integrating with identity verification vendors (e.g., Trulioo, LexisNexis, Socure, Alloy) or sanctions screening providers. • Background in fintech issuing platforms, core banking, or payments operations. • Prior ownership of KYC/KYB automation initiatives that materially reduced manual review rates or compliance risk. • Familiarity with AML/BSA regulatory obligations, OFAC screening, FinCEN CIP rules, or Red Flag program requirements. • Your Manager • Ashok Agrawal, Senior Director, Software Engineering • Recruiter For This Role • Prashant, Senior Technical Recruiter • Typical Process • Typical Process • Application Submission • Recruiter phone call • Hiring manager video call • Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls
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: $156,800 - $196,000. • 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 vacation time • 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 • 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. • Marqeta’s Values • Marqeta’s Values • – Solve for the Customer: With a deep understanding of our customers' business and empathy for their needs, we deliver products and services that drive their success. Earning and keeping their trust guides everything we do. • – Solve for the Customer: • – Do What's Right: Knowing businesses and livelihoods depend on us, we pursue solutions that disrupt responsibly and deliver high-quality results that our customers count on. We own our work from start to finish. • – Do What's Right: • – Simplify and Innovate: We approach challenges with curiosity and take smart risks. Innovation comes from finding better, simpler ways to achieve extraordinary outcomes. • – Simplify and Innovate: • – Win as a Team: We succeed together by embracing diverse perspectives and pushing each other to raise the bar. We lead with humility and set aside hierarchy to work as a team. • – Win as a Team: • – Make it Count: We drive forward with focus and agility. With a sense of urgency and purpose, we get the job done, and done right. • – Make it Count: • Equal Employment Opportunity, Accommodations and Privacy
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