Remote Senior Core Platform Engineer – Issuing & Processing

Marqeta, Inc.

United States

Remote

USD 242,000 - 303,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance options
Flexible time off
Retirement savings with company match
Equity in company
Parental Leave (up to 20 weeks)
Free therapy sessions & coaching
Remote work stipend
Development dollars

Job summary

Marqeta is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Core Issuing & Processing team to drive high-impact initiatives and own the technical roadmap for the core platform. You will work across domains, optimize issuing and processing engines, and mentor engineers to achieve operational excellence.

This Flexible First role can be performed remotely in the United States within National locations. You’ll collaborate with Product Managers and cross-functional teams to design scalable systems

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
  • Demonstrated passion for software engineering excellence, including design principles, fault tolerance, scalability, cost, security & privacy considerations, and test-driven development.
  • Experience partnering with product teams to ideate and bring innovative solutions to market.
  • Experience developing and scaling microservices using modern cloud technologies, preferably AWS.
  • Experience working with high volume / low latency data infrastructures.
  • Solid understanding of security engineering best practices and demonstrable experience in designing solutions that adhere to those standards.
  • Passion for non-functional challenges, namely: Scale, Cost, Reliability, Performance, High Availability.
  • Experience building systems running in multiple regions.
  • Team-oriented approach – can effectively lead a project, participate as an influential team member, and work cross-functionally with other organizations.
  • Experience with our tech stack, namely Java, Springboot, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Kafka, JPOS, and AWS services.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical roadmap and author system designs that enable scalable, secure, and operationally efficient card issuing and payment processing products for our customers.
  • 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 the performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency of our 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 your software designs and implementations to increase the platform’s resiliency and scalability.

Skills

Java
Springboot
Kubernetes
Terraform
Helm
Kafka
JPOS
AWS services

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Master's degree in Software Engineering

Tools

AWS
Kubernetes
Terraform
Helm
Kafka
JPOS

Job description

Marqeta is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Core Issuing & Processing team to drive high-impact initiatives and own the technical roadmap for the core platform. You will work across domains, optimize issuing and processing engines, and mentor engineers to achieve operational excellence.

This Flexible First role can be performed remotely in the United States within National locations. You’ll collaborate with Product Managers and cross-functional teams to design scalable systems

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