
Principal Software Engineer
Marqeta
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $242,400 - $315,800 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- Demonstrated passion for software engineering excellence, including design principles, fault tolerance practices, 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.
Benefits
- Multiple health insurance options
- Flexible time off – take what you need
- Retirement savings program with company contribution and after tax contributions
- Equity in a publicly-traded company and 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 stipend to support our remote work model
- Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development
- Through Flex First, the freedom to live and work wherever you and your family thrive
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringsystem designmicroservicescloud technologiessecurity engineeringtest-driven developmentperformance optimizationfault tolerancescalabilityhigh availability
Soft Skills
mentoringcollaborationinfluencing stakeholdersteam-orientedtechnical excellencecommunicationproblem-solvingleadershipcross-functional teamworkpassion for engineering