Remote Software Engineer II - Payments & DS

marqeta-inc; United States; Remote; USD 65,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance options

Flexible vacation + floating holidays

Retirement savings program with EMPLOY

Job summary

marqeta-inc is seeking a Software Engineer II for its Core Edge Processing group. This remote-first role in Canada focuses on transaction routing, authorization, and cryptographic infrastructure for real-time payments.

Ideal for engineers with 2+ years of experience eager to deepen distributed-systems and payments expertise. You will ship production code on an always-on payment platform, collaborate with senior engineers, and participate in on-call incident response.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional engineering experience
• Solid grasp of Java fundamentals and distributed systems
• Comfort debugging production issues and collaborating in a team

Responsibilities

• Ship production code across routing and processing stack
• Own well-scoped features end-to-end from design to release
• Join on-call rotation and respond to incidents on live payment systems
• Grow Java, distributed systems and payments knowledge through hands-on projects
• Collaborate with senior and staff engineers to expand technical scope

Skills

Java fundamentals

Distributed systems

AWS experience

Production debugging

Communication skills

Tools

AWS

Job description

marqeta-inc is seeking a Software Engineer II for its Core Edge Processing group. This remote-first role in Canada focuses on transaction routing, authorization, and cryptographic infrastructure for real-time payments.

Ideal for engineers with 2+ years of experience eager to deepen distributed-systems and payments expertise. You will ship production code on an always-on payment platform, collaborate with senior engineers, and participate in on-call incident response.