Marqeta

Marqeta is a pioneer in modern card issuing and payment solutions, offering businesses instant card issuance and payment processing through their innovative open API platform.

Diversified Financial Services

Financials

251-1K (958)

Founded 2010

9 open positions

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Principal Software Engineer

2 hours, 58 minutes ago

United States

Full-time

Lead

Software Engineer

Software Development

AWS Helm Java Kafka Kubernetes Microservices Spring Boot System Design Terraform

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Marqeta

Marqeta is a pioneer in modern card issuing and payment solutions, offering businesses instant card issuance and payment processing through their innovative open API platform.

Diversified Financial Services

251-1K

Founded 2010

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Description

Own the technical roadmap for the core platform and author system designs for scalable, secure, and operationally efficient products.
Write, review, and optimize code across the issuing and processing stack.
Lead high-impact technical initiatives that improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
Partner with Product Managers to analyze requirements and provide technical recommendations across core payment domains.
Mentor and guide technical leads while influencing stakeholders and driving organization-wide technical excellence.
Establish success metrics and promote modern engineering best practices to improve resiliency and scalability.
Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering leaders and other organizations to deliver projects from inception to completion.

Requirements

12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
Demonstrated expertise in software engineering principles, including fault tolerance, scalability, cost, security and privacy, and test-driven development.
Experience partnering with product teams to ideate and bring solutions to market.
Experience developing and scaling microservices using modern cloud technologies, preferably AWS.
Experience working with high-volume, low-latency data infrastructures.
Strong understanding of security engineering best practices and experience designing to those standards.
Experience building systems that run in multiple regions.
Ability to lead projects, contribute as an influential team member, and work cross-functionally.
Experience with Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Kafka, JPOS, and AWS services.
Master’s degree in Software Engineering is preferred.
Experience in payment processing, card issuing, or the payments industry is preferred.
Domain experience in authorization, clearing, settlement, tokenization, or ledger systems is preferred.

Benefits

Base salary range of $242,400-$303,000 for National, $247,500-$309,400 for Premium, and $252,600-$315,800 for Premium Plus locations.
Annual bonuses for eligible employees.
Multiple health insurance options.
Flexible time off.
Retirement savings program with company contribution and after-tax contributions.
Equity in a publicly traded company plus an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
Family-forming benefits, fertility support, and up to 20 weeks of parental leave.
Free therapy sessions, financial and professional coaching, and legal advice.
Monthly remote work stipend and annual development dollars.
Flexible First work model with the freedom to work remotely anywhere in the United States or from the Oakland office.

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