Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Data Platform)

As Marqeta’s Senior Manager, Software Engineering you will be responsible for the Data Engineering Platform team and report directly to the Senior Director of Marqeta's Data Platform.

The Data Engineering Platform team is made up of diverse, agile-thinking, and highly-skilled professionals; we use our combined capabilities to enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability and efficiency. Bringing an innovative, high tech, modern and inspiring approach that helps to align employees with Marqeta’s vision, fun culture and business strategy is essential. 

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, and production, in addition to team building. Since we are in a fast-growth mode, at the same time as growing the team, hands-on development work is expected. 

If you are passionate about large-scale platforms, data engineering and processing, enriching, serving technology, and value-added data products in the fast-growing payment space, this is an ideal opportunity for you to lead, contribute, impact, and further grow your career. As a key leader in the Data team, you will have the opportunity to influence and contribute to our vision, direction, strategy, and also find effective ways to empower internal and external partners/customers to generate business values.

The Impact You'll Have

• Develop a vision, strategy, and roadmap to meet business objectives with existing or emerging technologies with other stakeholders and partners.
• Work with team members and partners on analyzing technical and business problems (new or with existing systems) in the Data Engineering Platform, identifying opportunities, designing ways to build new systems or make existing systems scalable, reliable, and performant to well serve customers, considering both short term and long term needs. Join forces with others on implementations, all the way to production deployment and execution.
• Demonstrate strong leadership. Build and grow a healthy, highly performant and customer-centric team, attract high talents, provide effective coaching to team members. 
• Advocate and practice engineering principles including Security/Privacy, Quality, Reliability, Usability, Scalability/Performance, Productivity/Efficiency, and Operability.
• Define success metrics and SLAs, as well as track them toward agreed targets.
• Operational Excellence: monitoring & operating production services including understanding user experience and ensuring happy customers.
• Contribute to building Marqeta’s technology brand through internal and external initiatives.

Who You Are

• 7+ years of industry experience in the data service and/or large-scale data applications. Experienced on a few of the production technologies we use including like AWS, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes
• 7+ years of industry experience in building Data Engineering services, including SQL-based cloud-native platforms like Snowflake, AWS Redshift and Spark on Kubernetes or EMR.
• Proven record of building and growing strong/productive teams, including attracting high talents. Caring for team members and inspiring/empowering them to deliver outstanding business results.
• Strong business and technical vision.
• Strong customer-centric mindset.
• Experience with agile development methodology.
• Strong at identifying problems, solving complex problems with simple solutions
• Strong 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.
• Exceptional collaboration and partnership 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.

Your Manager

• Zandro Gonzalez

Typical Process

• Application submission
• Recruiter phone call
• Hiring manager video call
• Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls
• 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. Compensation is aligned according to three tiers within the United States:

• National: A baseline tier that applies to most of the geographic te