Marqeta

Principal Software Engineer

Marqeta

full-time

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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