Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200 countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, were helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Principal Software Engineer

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company specializing in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and empower an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by ensuring transactions are safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Utilizing secure data and networks, strategic partnerships, and passion, our innovations and solutions support individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses in realizing their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and influences everything we do both within and outside of our company. With connections spanning more than 210 countries and territories, we are committed to building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

The Transfer Solutions group is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercards next-generation payment applicationsdomestic, CrossBorder, and Bill Payments.

We are looking for a Principal, Software Engineering, to join the team, focused on building and running our Cross-Border payments platform. We build software that can be deployed on-premise or in public cloud. In this role, you will design and build software that scales to global markets, enabling secure, seamless, always available Cross-Border payments. This is an exciting engineering leadership role working with a global team that is passionate about the solutions we are delivering to our customers.

Role

In this role, you will drive collaboration across engineering, product management, enterprise functions and regional business teams and you will lead by defining the technical strategy, architecture, design, and execution to iteratively achieve outcomes.

As a principal software engineer you will: Drive business outcomes with the right technology solutions

• Lead the architecture & design of software systems and applications.
• Collaborate with product teams to understand the requirements, identify solutions, and provide technical thought leadership.
• Have experience implementing Domain Driven Design methodology.
• Ensure solutions meet corporate standards and adhere to operability principles.

Drive a culture of engineering excellence

• Lead software development projects, especially at the early stage (PoC, Pilot).
• Have working experience across a variety of languages and frameworks.
• Love the declarative paradigm and functional programming. Focus on continuous improvement.
• Ensure your solutions are secure by design.
• Build great relationships with technical peers across the organization and actively participate in the Software Engineering Guild.

Skills

• Broad experience as a Software Engineer / Full Stack Developer.
• Hands-on experience implementing design patterns and using multiple programming languages.
• Experience building and operating scalable global platforms with high throughput and 5 9s availability.
• In-depth knowledge of Java, Spring framework, persistence and messaging technologies, and testing methodologies and tools.
• In-depth knowledge of Public Cloud platforms, containers and container orchestration.
• Good working knowledge of cryptography functions and PKI infrastructure.

All About You

• Hands-on technical leader who consistently demonstrates leadership, builds trust, focuses on talent development and inspires the team.
• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented and proactive with the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment.
• Have a passion for continuous learning and enjoy challenging opportunities.
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written with strong relationship building, collaborative skills and organizational skills.
• Drive outcomes through a strong commitment to timely delivery of key objectives.
• Possess strong decision-making skills, lead retrospection and continually improve as a result.
• Must have expert-level knowledge of software development processes and be an experienced user of one or more Application Lifecycle Management tools.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercards security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach; and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercards guidelines.

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Location: Pune, India, 411006

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