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.). 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.This role can be performed remotely within the Toronto, ON or Vancouver, BC Metro Areas. We'd love for you to join us!Reporting to the Director of Data Platform, the Manager will be responsible for the Marqeta Parser Team. The Marqeta Parser 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 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.What You'll DoDevelop 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 Marqeta Parsing Service, 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.What We're Looking For 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, KubernetesProven 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 solutionsStrong 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 ManagerKe Xu - Director, Data EngineeringRecruiter For This RoleSteve Pestorich - Senior Staff RecruiterTypical ProcessApplication submissionRecruiter phone callHiring manager video callVirtual "Onsite" consisting of 4-5, 45 min callsOffer!Compensation and BenefitsWhen determining salaries, we consider several factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior experience, and work location. The new-hire base salaryrange for this position, reflected in CAD, is: 126,000 - 167,000We 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 offersMultiple health insurance optionsFlexible time off – take what you needRetirement savings program with company contributionEquity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase ProgramMonthly stipend to support our remote work modelAnnual "development dollars" to support our people growth and developmentFamily-forming benefits and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave
