Staff Software Engineer - Banking and Money Movement

About Marqeta

Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time. Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.

Marqeta’s Values

• Solve for the Customer: With a deep understanding of our customers' business and empathy for their needs, we deliver products and services that drive their success. Earning and keeping their trust guides everything we do.
• Do What's Right: Knowing businesses and livelihoods depend on us, we pursue solutions that disrupt responsibly and deliver high-quality results that our customers count on. We own our work from start to finish.
• Simplify and Innovate: We approach challenges with curiosity and take smart risks. Innovation comes from finding better, simpler ways to achieve extraordinary outcomes.
• Win as a Team: We succeed together by embracing diverse perspectives and pushing each other to raise the bar. We lead with humility and set aside hierarchy to work as a team.
• Make it Count: We drive forward with focus and agility. With a sense of urgency and purpose, we get the job done, and done right.

Staff Software Engineer - Banking and Money Movement

Marqeta is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to independently drive the identification and delivery of complex software solutions on our Banking and Money Movement Team. In this role, you will lead end-to-end delivery across multi-component systems and multi-milestone initiatives, taking full ownership of projects aligned to quarterly team goals. You will navigate ambiguous, open-ended technical challenges with autonomy, defining the path forward where problems are not yet well-scoped. You will serve as a technical leader and trusted collaborator — partnering closely with your team and cross-functional stakeholders to align on priorities and deliver high-impact outcomes.

The Banking and Money Movement engineering team develops and optimizes financial services, including account creation, transaction processing, payment systems, banking integrations, reporting, and reconciliation. We work collaboratively to ensure secure, efficient, and innovative solutions that meet regulatory standards and enhance user experiences in moving the money.

We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely in the United States, only in one of our National locations, which you can review here. Learn more about our Product and Engineering team.

The Impact You'll Have

• Lead the design and architecture of large-scale, complex systems and components, making decisions that impact both short-term and long-term product strategy.
• Take ownership of major technical initiatives, providing direction to teams while ensuring alignment with customer needs and business goals.
• Drive architectural improvements, optimizing for scalability, performance, and maintainability, while addressing both current and future system requirements.
• Mentor and guide other engineers, providing technical leadership and fostering an environment of growth, learning, and excellence across the team.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including product, design, and other engineering teams, to define and deliver high-impact solutions.
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the product, business needs, and user experience, ensuring that engineering decisions align with company goals.
• Independently drive the design and implementation of high-impact features and systems, ensuring high-quality deliverables with minimal supervision.
• Drive innovation and champion the adoption of best practices across the engineering team, while challenging the status quo to continuously improve processes.
• Be an advocate for software craftsmanship, ensuring code is clean, efficient, and aligned with the organization's architectural vision.
• Participate in setting the technical vision and long-term roadmap for your area of the product and ensure that the team is aligned with these goals.
• Participate in on-call coverage.

Who You Are

• 8+ years of experience in backend engineering, with a strong foundation in system design and architecture.
• 3+ years of experience with payments or the FinTech space.
• Proven experience leading technical projects and teams, with the ability to make decisions that drive the overall success of the product.
• Deep expertise in one or more backend technologies (e.g., Java, Python), relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server, Oracle, etc.), and significant experience with web services, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience working with large-scale, high-performance, and reliable systems.
• Ability to break down complex business problems into elegant, scalable technical solutions, working with multiple interacting components.
• A strong track record of designing, building, and scaling maintainable, robust systems, ensuring high availability and minimal technical debt.
• Experience in creating and maintaining technical roadmaps, and providing leadership to ensure successful delivery of projects.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A strong focus on quality and a commitment to meeting deadlines, while maintaining a high level of accountability.
• Experience in mentoring and guiding less-experienced engineers, fostering technical growth and fostering high-performing teams.

Nice to haves

• Production experience with AWS, Kubernetes, or other cloud platforms.
• Experience with building scalable software platforms.
• Experience leading teams through significant technical challenges and driving organizational change.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker/Kubernetes.
• Experience with Python or other modern programming languages.
• Experience in developing cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform.

Key skills/competency

• Staff Software Engineer
• Backend Engineering
• System Design
• Architecture
• Payments
• FinTech
• Microservices
• Distributed Systems
• AWS
• Kubernetes