Sr Principal Software Engineer

Position Summary

Marqeta is the originator and market leader of Modern Card Issuing. A key part of what differentiates Modern Card Issuing from Legacy Issuing is our best in class customer / developer experience. Our offerings include a suite of apps to manage payment infrastructure, a robust Platform which offers a comprehensive set of APIs aimed at developers and a full-featured Developer Portal.

As a Sr. Principal Engineer, you will be the key technical leader for our entire customer / developer experience suite of product offerings. You will be a key thought partner with our product and engineer teams to bring innovative solutions to market. You will help drive engineering and operational excellence throughout our engineering organization.

What You’ll Do

• Create technical roadmaps, author designs and build key portions of the systems that enable delivery of high quality, highly scalable, highly secure and operationally efficient products to our customers.


• Partner with product teams to contribute to the development of innovative product experiences by incorporating insights from technical engagements and working closely with key customers and partners.


• Drive organization wide technical changes through authoring designs, mentoring and guiding technical leads, influencing stakeholders and establishing success metrics.


• 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

• 15 years of hands-on engineering experience. 


• Demonstrated passion for software engineering excellence including design principles, fault tolerance practices, scalability, cost, security & privacy considerations and test driven development.


• Excellent collaboration, communication and leadership skills. Can effectively lead a project and work cross-functionally with other organizations.


• Experience partnering with product teams to ideate and bring innovative solutions to market.


• Experience developing and scaling microservices using modern cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, or GCP

Nice-to-haves

• Experience developing solutions in the customer / developer experience space


• Experience working in Payments in either issuing or acquirer domain.


• Hands-on experience with AWS


• Exposure to our modern Java backend stack using Spring Boot, Kubernetes on AWS and Javascript with React and GraphQL on the frontend


• Experience with transactional RDBMS such as MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server, or Oracle