Principal Software Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $242.4k - $303k / year

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Marqeta

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2010

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-06

Fintech • B2B • Payments

Marqeta is a leading modern card issuing platform that empowers businesses to integrate comprehensive credit and payment solutions seamlessly into their processes. Specializing in debit, credit, prepaid, and virtual cards, Marqeta provides dynamic spend controls, Just-in-Time (JIT) funding, and ensures compliance and risk management. The platform supports digital wallets, tokenization, and embedded finance, catering to industries such as digital banking, expense management, and on-demand services. With its open APIs, Marqeta facilitates the creation and management of card products, offering scalability and flexibility for enterprises ranging from startups to global companies.

📋 Description

• 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