Principal Software Engineer, Marqeta
$242.4-303k
+ Equity
Modern payment & card issuing solutions
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Modern payment & card issuing solutions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$242.4-303k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the global standard for modern card issuing, empowering builders to bring the most innovative products to the world.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- Master's degree in Software Engineering
- Experience in payment processing, card issuing, or the payments industry
- Domain experience in authorization, clearing, settlement, tokenization, or ledger systems
What the job involves
- As Marqeta’s Principal Software Engineer on the Core Issuing & Processing team, you will work across the entire domain to stand up and drive high-impact projects for our customers from inception to completion
- You will take on highly technical initiatives that optimize our issuing and processing engines, own the technical roadmap for the core platform, and partner with engineering leaders to drive engineering and operational excellence throughout the organization
- The Core Issuing and Processing team owns the foundational stack that powers Marqeta's core business. We develop and maintain the systems that span six critical domains: Onboarding, Issuing, Digital Wallets, Authorization & Clearing, Transaction Controls, and Ledger. Together, these systems form the backbone of Marqeta's card issuing and payment processing platform
- 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
- Your Manager: Arash Afrooze, Sr Director, Software Engineering
Application process
- Application Submission
- Recruiter phone call
- Hiring manager video call
- Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls
Our take
Marqeta processes payments quickly, offering businesses a more straightforward way to take customer payments with its physical and virtual card solutions. The company has a string of major companies utilizing its flexible and scalable platform, including Uber, Doordash and Square.
The company is rapidly expanding in Europe, with strong growth in processing volumes and new partnerships, including major collaborations with firms like Trade Republic. It also partnered with Visa and Affirm to introduce the Visa Flexible Credential, allowing users to access multiple payment methods on one card.
With a focus on global growth and delivering innovative financial services, Marqeta is targeting new verticals and supporting underbanked businesses. With this aim, the company is on its way to deepening its impact in the fintech space and driving further innovation in payments.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
May 2020
$150m
LATE VC
May 2019
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $542.5m
Company benefits
- Praise: We believe in generously recognizing each other’s talents and contributions, and sharing the goodness we see
- Health and wellness: We cover your premiums for health, dental, and vision. Plus, your pet gets his/her/its own insurance, on us
- Flexible time off: We take time to relax and recharge when needed. We have unlimited time off for most employees and encourage an average of 5 weeks per year
- Marqeta paid family leave: We support all families. We offer 12 weeks of paid leave for all new parents and up to 20 for birthing parents. We also offer 4 weeks of caregiving leave
- 401k match: We invest in your future. We’ll match 50% of your contribution and up to 6% of your salary
- Meaningful equity: As owners of the company, we’re all in this together. Full-time employees will receive equity in Marqeta
- Giving back: We recognize we’re part of a larger community and encourage employees to donate their time and expertise to organizations they support
- Monthly stipend: You’ll get an additional monthly stipend on your paycheck to help fund your daily commute, cell phone, and/or internet connectivity
- Stock discount: The Employee Stock Purchase Program allows employees to buy discounted company stock
Company HQ
Northgate - Waverly, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Jason Gardner
(Founder & Board Member)Having studied at Arizona State University, worked in Management for Benettar Marble & Granite, NetManage and Gartner Group. Then founded PropertyBridge and spent 2 years at MoneyGram before founding Marqeta as CEO in 2010.
Mike Milotich
(CEO)Spent a decade at VISA, ultimately serving as SVP (Head of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations). Was also Commercial Analytics Lead for PayPal and a Senior Financial Analyst at Barclays Global Investors.
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