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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.\nWe workFlexible 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!\nThe Impact You'll Have\nShip and refine production code across our routing and processing stack, where every millisecond and every line counts\n\nLead initiatives that make our platform more reliable, faster, and more cost-efficient\n\nShape system design alongside your EM and fellow engineers, from data model changes to failure and degradation strategy to blast-radius containment\n\nTake on complex, mission-critical codebases and lift the engineering standard for everyone around you\n\nMentor engineers and guide technical direction at the Staff level\n\nWho You Are\nAn engineer with 8+ years of experience who is still deep in the code every day\n\nA Java expert with strong fundamentals in concurrency, performance, and building reliable systems at scale\n\nSomeone who writes system designs, defends them in review, and runs what you build in production\n\nAt home in a regulated, cloud-native, high-availability environment\n\nExperienced in payment processing, card issuing, or network integration (JPOS, ISO 8583, or similar)\n\nNice-To-Haves\nCryptography or key management experience (HSM, AWS Payment Cryptography, KMS)\n\nExperience running systems across multiple regions, including tested failover\n\nHands-on experience with Kubernetes and AWS\n\nRecruiter For This Role\nKayla Osuna\n\nTypical Process\nApplication Submission\n\nRecruiter phone call\n\nHiring manager video call\n\nVirtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls\n\nOffer!\n\nCompensation and Benefits\nMarqeta 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: $156,800 - $196,000\nWe 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.\nAlong with monetary compensation, Marqeta currently offers:\nMultiple health insurance options\n\nFlexible vacation time with additional floating holidays\n\nRetirement savings program with company contribution\n\nEquity in a publicly-traded company\n\nMonthly stipend to support our remote work model\n\nAnnual development stipend to support our people growth and development\n\nFamily-forming benefits and generous parental leave base salary top-up\n\nAbout Marqeta\nMarqeta 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.\nMarqeta’s Values\n- 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.\n- 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.\n- Simplify and Innovate: We approach challenges with curiosity and take smart risks. Innovation comes from finding better, simpler ways to achieve extraordinary outcomes.\n- 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.\n- 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.\nEqual Employment Opportunity, Accommodations and Privacy\nMarqeta is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth, or related medical conditions), veteran status or uniformed service member status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.\nMarqeta endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please submit this form with your specific accommodation request.\nMarqeta cares about your privacy. Personal data that is provided as part of the application and recruitment process is processed in accordance with the Applicant Privacy Notice. Additional information for California residents can be found here.\nTo keep our interview process fair and consistent, we ask that all candidates join video interviews with their camera on.\nNotice on Use of AI in Recruitment\nWe may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in our recruitment processing consistent with the requirements of applicable laws. 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