157K–196K CAD / year
Staff Software Engineer - Onboarding and Migrations
BackendRemote — Ontario or British Columbia, Canada
Published on 2026-10-19
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About this role
Build and scale Marqeta’s Customer Migration Platform, developing backend services and data pipelines. The role spans architecture, implementation, deployment, and production operations, with technical leadership and mentoring responsibilities.
About the company
Marqeta provides modern card issuing and payment infrastructure for fintechs and brands. It enables companies to create, control, and authorize card programs programmatically.
The team
Program Experience team; Core Platform Engineering
Stack
JavaPythonScalaAWSAmazon S3AWS GlueAmazon AthenaAmazon DynamoDB
What you'll do
- Design and maintain backend applications, APIs, web services, and microservices.
- Build data pipelines, ELT processes, and data integrations for analytics and reporting.
- Optimize backend code, databases, and systems for performance and scalability.
- Implement CI/CD and automate deployments.
- Monitor and troubleshoot production systems; participate in on-call and incident response.
- Collaborate across teams, document systems, and mentor junior engineers.
What we're looking for
- At least 8 years of experience in software engineering, data pipelines, data integration, and database management.
- Strong AWS experience and proficiency in Python, Java, or Scala.
- Experience with Fivetran, Airflow, and relational, non-relational, and warehouse databases.
- Hands-on experience building and operating containerized cloud workloads such as Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of data modeling, ELT, data warehousing, data quality, and governance.
- Ability to lead work from problem definition through design, deployment, and operations.
- Strong communication skills and experience working with distributed teams.
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; a master’s degree is a plus.
- AWS or other relevant certifications.
- Experience using AI tools responsibly in design, development, and operations.
Benefits
- Annual bonus for eligible employees.
- Equity in a publicly traded company.
- Flexible vacation time and floating holidays.
- Retirement savings program with company contribution.
- Remote-work stipend and annual development stipend.
- Family-forming benefits and parental leave salary top-up.