Remote Principal Software Engineer, Core Issuing

Marqeta, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 242,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible First

Remote work in US

Equity & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Health insurance options

Parental leave

Job summary

Marqeta seeks a Principal Software Engineer for the Core Issuing & Processing team. You will lead high-impact initiatives across issuing and processing engines, own the technical roadmap, and partner with engineering leaders to drive excellence.

This role offers Flexible First options with remote in the United States, national locations, and a focus on scalable, secure systems and multi-region deployments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Experience with microservices in cloud environments (AWS preferred).
• Ability to design scalable, secure, fault-tolerant systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap and author system designs that enable scalable card issuing and processing products.
• Spend significant time in the codebase – writing, reviewing, and optimizing code across the issuing and processing stack.
• Identify and drive high-impact technical initiatives that improve performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency of core processing engines.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to analyze requirements and provide technical recommendations across onboarding, issuing, digital wallets, authorization & clearing, transaction controls, and ledger.
• Mentor and guide technical leads, influence stakeholders, and establish success metrics to drive organization-wide technical excellence.
• Apply and evangelize modern best practices in software designs to increase resiliency and scalability.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud technologies (AWS)

Microservices

Security engineering

Code reviews

Leadership

Java

Springboot

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Kafka

JPOS

AWS services

Education

Master's degree in Software Engineering

Tools

Java

Springboot

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Kafka

JPOS

AWS

Job description

Marqeta seeks a Principal Software Engineer for the Core Issuing & Processing team. You will lead high-impact initiatives across issuing and processing engines, own the technical roadmap, and partner with engineering leaders to drive excellence.

This role offers Flexible First options with remote in the United States, national locations, and a focus on scalable, secure systems and multi-region deployments.