Staff Software Engineer - Banking and Money Movement
Marqeta is a card-issuing and payment-processing technology company. Its platform helps fintechs, financial institutions, and technology companies build and manage debit, credit, prepaid, and virtual card programs.
About Marqeta, Inc.
Marqeta provides a modern, API-driven card issuing platform for embedded payment and financial-service experiences. It offers card issuing and processing, virtual cards, Just-in-Time funding, dynamic spend controls, PCI-compliant widgets, fraud and risk tools, tokenization, data insights, and program management. Its customers use the platform for consumer and commercial payments, digital banking, credit, supplier payments, expense management, and commercial banking solutions.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead the architecture, design, and end-to-end delivery of complex banking and money movement systems. You will own major technical initiatives, solve ambiguous technical challenges, improve scalability and performance, mentor engineers, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, contribute to technical roadmaps, and participate in on-call coverage.
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience
- 3+ years of experience with payments or FinTech
- Experience leading technical projects and teams
- Expertise in backend technologies such as Java or Python
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, or Oracle
- Experience with web services, microservices, and distributed systems
- Experience with large-scale, high-performance, reliable systems
- Experience designing, building, and scaling maintainable systems
- Experience creating and maintaining technical roadmaps
- Communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience mentoring less-experienced engineers
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and architecture of large-scale, complex systems and components
- Own major technical initiatives and provide direction to teams
- Drive architectural improvements for scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Mentor and guide engineers
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering stakeholders to deliver solutions
- Independently design and implement high-impact features and systems
- Champion engineering best practices and process improvements
- Advocate for clean, efficient code aligned with the architectural vision
- Set the technical vision and long-term roadmap for your product area
- Participate in on-call coverage
Benefits
- Annual bonuses for eligible employees
- Multiple health insurance options
- Flexible vacation time
- Retirement savings program with company contribution
- Equity in a publicly traded company
- Monthly stipend to support remote work
- Annual development dollars
- Family-forming benefits
- Up to 20 weeks of parental leave
