Remote Staff Software Engineer - Real-Time Payments & Security

marqeta-inc; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance options

Remote work stipend

Equity in company

Development stipend

Parental leave top-up

Job summary

Marqeta is seeking a staff-level software engineer to own the real-time routing and authorization of card transactions, with cryptographic infrastructure underpinning it. The role blends hands-on coding with technical leadership in a cloud-native, highly available environment.

You will mentor teams, influence system design, and drive reliability while shipping production code that directly affects transaction outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on production coding experience.
• Deep Java expertise with concurrency and performance.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production.
• Regulated, cloud-native, high-availability environment experience.
• Payment processing, card networks, or related protocols experience.

Responsibilities

• Ship and refine production code across routing and processing stack.
• Lead reliability, throughput, and cost-efficiency initiatives in production.
• Shape system designs with engineering leadership and peers.
• Own complex, mission-critical codebases and raise engineering standards.
• Mentor engineers and guide technical direction at Staff level.

Skills

Java programming

Distributed systems

System design

Production coding

Kubernetes

AWS

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Marqeta is seeking a staff-level software engineer to own the real-time routing and authorization of card transactions, with cryptographic infrastructure underpinning it. The role blends hands-on coding with technical leadership in a cloud-native, highly available environment.

You will mentor teams, influence system design, and drive reliability while shipping production code that directly affects transaction outcomes.