Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform - Remote, USA

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.). Today nearly 8 out of 10 Americans use a product powered by Marqeta every week. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.

We are looking for a Sr. Software Engineer with passion for software engineering excellence to build large-scale platform that enable cross-product solutions.

The Data Platform team is a diverse, agile-thinking, and highly-skilled professionals. We use our combined capabilities to enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability and efficiency. Bringing an innovative, high tech, modern and inspiring approach that helps to align employees with Marqeta’s vision, fun culture and strategy is essential.

We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely within the United States. We’d love for you to join us!

Learn more about our Product and Engineering team

What you'll do

• Build an efficient, scalable data processing service using Java, Spark or Python.
• Contribute to the architecture design of the Data Platform while taking account of current data problems and following engineering best practices.
• Apply a creative thinking approach to determine technical solutions that further business goals and align with company strategies.
• You will monitor and operate production services and understand user needs while ensuring happy customers.
• Foster learning and innovation …