Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Marqeta · Caroga, NY
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Jul 7, 2026
Caroga, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A leadership role managing an engineering team responsible for building and maintaining a credit onboarding platform within a fintech payments company. The work centers on platform reliability, scalability, and automation, while partnering with product, risk, and compliance stakeholders to shape technical direction. Suited to an experienced engineering manager with a background in distributed, cloud-native systems and comfort operating in regulated environments.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 47,400 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 28,400–71,000
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The compensation range is explicitly stated in CAD, suggesting this role may be based in Canada despite the posting saying it can be performed remotely anywhere in the United States. The US-based flag is set to true based on the explicit US remote language, but the CAD salary is a notable inconsistency.
8–12+ years in engineering and 4+ years managing senior engineers or managers are stated as requirements; the overall years minimum is set to 8 (the lower bound of the engineering experience range).
AWS is listed as 'preferably AWS' within the requirements section — it is a preferred cloud platform but the cloud-native distributed systems requirement itself is a hard gate; AWS alternatives are noted accordingly.
Masters in Computer Science appears under 'What Will Set You Apart,' a clearly secondary/aspirational section, so it is not treated as a hard degree requirement.
Fintech experience is listed as 'strongly preferred' and credit domain experience as 'a plus but not required' — both are preferred, not hard gates, and name no specific technology so they are omitted from the skills list per schema rules.
AI-first automation and multi-region architecture experience appear under 'What Will Set You Apart' (the nice-to-have section) and are not named technologies, so they are omitted.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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