As Marqeta's Software Engineer II on the Core Edge Processing team, you will write and ship production code at the heart of our processing systems, learning alongside senior engineers on a team running real-time, always-on payment infrastructure. Core Edge Processing owns the systems that route and authorize transactions across card networks, along with the cryptographic infrastructure underneath them. This is a hands-on role where the quality of your code directly shapes whether transactions succeed.
We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within the province where you reside, whether that's Ontario or British Columbia, Canada. We'd love for you to join us!
The Impact You'll Have- Ship production code across our routing and processing stack, with senior engineers in your corner
- Own well-scoped features and bug fixes end-to-end, from design discussion all the way to production
- Join the on-call rotation and incident response, building real operational fluency on live payment systems
- Grow your Java, distributed systems, and payment processing skills through hands-on project work
- Work side by side with senior and staff engineers to steadily expand your technical scope
Who You Are- An engineer with 2+ years of professional experience, including deploying and operating mission-critical services in AWS
- Solid in Java fundamentals, with a real interest in going deeper
- Comfortable debugging and troubleshooting production issues, with teammates to back you up
- Eager to learn distributed systems and the world of payment processing
- A strong communicator who asks good questions and takes feedback well
Nice-To-Haves- Exposure to payment processing, card issuing, or network integration concepts
- Familiarity with cryptography or key management concepts
- Prior on-call or production-support experience
Recruiter For This RoleTypical Process- Application Submission
- Recruiter phone call
- Hiring manager video call
- Virtual "Onsite" consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls
- Offer!
Compensation and BenefitsMarqeta calibrates pay to a competitive value according to working location. When determining salaries, we consider several factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior experience, and work location. The new-hire
base salary range for this full-time position, reflected in CAD, is: $92,900 - $116,100
We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. That's why we award annual bonuses to eligible employees, rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company.
Along with monetary compensation, Marqeta currently offers:
- Multiple health insurance options
- Flexible vacation time with additional floating holidays
- Retirement savings program with company contribution
- Equity in a publicly-traded company
- Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
- Annual development stipend to support our people growth and development
- Family-forming benefits and generous parental leave base salary top-up
