Senior Software Engineer - Transaction Auditing

Senior Software Engineer - Transaction Auditing
Marqeta 25 March 2025

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Transaction Auditing team, you will design, build, and operate the systems that ensure penny-perfect accuracy, reliability, and compliance across Marqeta’s Transaction Domain. In this role, you will lead a small, high-impact scrum team responsible for the infrastructure, services, and APIs that guarantee the correctness of all financially-impacting transactions  are a team of diverse, agile-minded engineers who thrive on solving complex challenges and driving innovation  work directly enhances Marqeta’s ability to process transactions with unmatched precision, speed, and operational efficiency.
We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely within British Columbia or Ontario Canada. We’d love for you to join us!

The Impact You’ll Have
Design and implement high-performance solutions for large-scale, high-volume, and high-velocity financial data and complex compliance landscapes.
Develop the software and infrastructure to achieve repeatable and efficient high-quality releases with automation, seeking opportunities to replace redundant tasks and enhance engineering focus on strategic challenges.
Debug critical production issues across services and different stack levels.
Apply a detail-oriented mindset to analyze data, detect patterns, and create well-organized documentation for non-technical audiences.
Diagnose and resolve production issues across various services and system layers.
Meticulously evaluate data, identify patterns, and communicate complex information clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Who You Are
You have 5+ years of industry experience in software development in Java, service-oriented architectures, and cloud computing (AWS preferred).
Experience developing in Java and Relational Database/SQL, however we welcome experience in other languages.
Ability to develop and deliver clean, readable and error-free code with thorough documentation and testing.
Ability to understand existing designs and technology choices and make appropriate adjustments when necessary.
Ability to communicate in a clear, concise, and respectful manner both verbally and in writing.
Ability to share relevant information including if difficult task-level trade-offs that impact the product need to be made.
The ability to demonstrate humility, empathy, and to take constructive feedback positively.
A desire to grow in your career, learn, share ideas and help others grow and learn.
The capacity to work productively on cross-functional teams and take a collaborative, team oriented approach.

Nice-To-Haves

Experience with payments or the Fin Tech space

Experience with Java Spring Boot

Experience with Kubernetes and/or Docker

Experience with big data analytics tools (i.e.

- Snowflake) and stream processing architectures

Contributions to technical blogs, a public Github repo, or to open source projects

Application Submission

Recruiter phone call

Hiring manager video call

Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls

Offer!

Compensation and Benefits
Marqeta is a Flex First company which allows you to choose your best working environment, whether that be from home or at a company office. To support Flex First, we calibrate 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 position, reflected in CAD, is: 91,.
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 offers

Multiple health insurance options

Flexible time off – take what you need

Retirement savings program with company contribution

Equity in a publicly-traded company

Monthly stipend to support our remote work model

Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development

Family-forming benefits and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave

About Marqeta
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