Principal Software Engineer

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're 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 EngineerWho is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview
The Loyalty Offers team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to drive our architecture design & strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in leading the design of our next generation regional and global solutions. You will have the opportunity to work on complex and innovative projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive technical excellence & proactively adding scalability while continuing to add enhanced value to these products.

Role:

1.Hands on designing Code, document, components / subsystems to a high standard
2.Must be solutions oriented – ultimately find and implement the 'best fit' solution to address the requirement on time.
3.Assist defining processes and choice of development tools to be used across the group
4.Interpret technical specifications to produce detailed design with scalability aspects from future perspective
5.Pass on knowledge of various technologies to other team members and to other functions
6.Contribute to Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs
7.Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives for the business needs using current and upcoming technologies and frameworks
8.Maintaining services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.

All About You

1.Design and development experiences in Java, Springboot, Microservices, API, Distributed systems, event driven architecture, Postgres, secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management.
2.Implements Application Programming Interface (API) Golden standards to drive API/service adoption and commercialization
3.Knowledge of Messaging technologies (e.g. Apache Kafka), high volume batch processing technologies (e.g. Apache Spark) a plus
4.Promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services
5.Strong knowledge of Cloud providers (PCF, AWS, Azure)
6.Proven experience designing, developing, and deploying microservices architectures.
7.Experience with Big Data frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, or Scala is a plus
8.Familiarity with AI/ML models and into backend systems.
9.Evaluate emerging technologies through Proof of Concepts & actively participate in innovations
10.Familiarity with performance tuning, designing for failure & automation

Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position must:

• Abide by Mastercard's 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 Mastercard's guidelines.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes 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 Mastercard's 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 Mastercard's guidelines.

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