Senior Principal Software Engineer

Position Summary

Our Platform is built by developers for developers! Marqeta’s platform enables payment authorization decisioning, cardholder data security, instant card issuing, in-app provisioning directly to digital wallets, and real-time funding with our exclusive Just-in-Time (JIT) funding. 

As a Backend Engineer, you will help us scale the technology as our business continues to grow while staying focused on shipping software that matters to our customers. You will help to innovate on various aspects of the platform used by our engineering organization to deliver high quality, highly scalable, and highly secure products to our customers

Our teams work on challenges like:   

• Building and driving the technical vision for new development platforms used across Marqeta to deliver our software
• Card Fulfillment, Cases/Disputes Management, Tokenization, Commercial Payments, On-boarding, SDKs
• Building a modern credit-issuing service to power the next generation of payment innovators
• Multiplying the force of Marqeta’s product engineering by developing common foundational systems that are incorporated into all of Marqeta’s products
• Web applications & products around fraud

What You’ll Do

• Work with the organization and your product manager to build a long term technical vision for Marqeta’s software development platform.
• Bring a metrics-focused mindset to infrastructure development that helps focus the team on building tools that create meaningful, measurable velocity for Marqeta’s engineers.
• Build delightful platform tooling that helps Marqeta engineer’s focus on solving business problems, not infrastructure problems.
• Help the team prioritize and ship features in line with your team’s roadmap.
• Raise the skill sets of those around you and make Marqeta better through your presence. Mentor other engineers on the team, drawing on your experience to provide thoughtful direction.
• Apply and evangelize modern best practices in your software designs and implementations.

What We’re Looking For

• We are hiring Software Engineers with 10 years of engineering experience. 
• Infrastructure/ Cloud Engineering expertise
• We use Java, Python, & Go throughout the business but welcome experience in different programming languages.
• Experience in software delivery pipelines, CI/CD systems, and software deployment and orchestrations systems such as Kubernetes.
• Experience building scalable software platforms for medium-sized engineering organizations.
• A strong passion to write code with great quality and test coverage.
• Strong communication skills - including the ability to listen to the needs of others and comprehend complex matters, articulate issues in a clear and concise manner, and present effectively in both oral and written presentations to all levels in the organization.
• Team-oriented approach – can effectively lead a project or participate as an effective team member as well as work cross-functionally with other organizations.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of Amazon EKS, Terraform, and/or Bazel
• Experience with modern engineering and cloud tool
• Experience moving from monolith-based development to microservices-based development
• Experience with transactional RDBMS such as MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server, or Oracle
• Experience scaling large, transactional systems and data shading would be welcome.