Principal, Software Engineering

requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices. • Set priorities, objectives, and drive deliverables within global technology domains and sub-domains and engage with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation and evaluate new solutions for future business platform system requirements. • Leverages input of partners and personal experience to make thoughtful decisions on technical direction and then has the ownership to see those decisions through • Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems, taking a holistic approach to problem-solving during production events. • Explain technical issues and solution strategies to stakeholders, ensure timely accomplishment of technical designs and delivery milestones and liaise with stakeholders to understand business needs. All About You • You’ve made your career in designing and building high performance, high transaction volume, and globally scalable platforms. • As an individual contributor you made your name by solving the hard problems that no one else could and as your career grew so did the complexity. You still love getting your hands dirty, but now look forward to working with your friends to solve the big stuff that no one person can solve on their own. • Designing and crafting the best software this world has ever seen might be your favorite thing, but you know that’s not the alpha and omega of your problem set. You relish your time with the SRE, Performance Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to ensure the architectures are correct and tuned and that your teams’ code is optimized for each system. • You know you are responsible for software that is critical financial infrastructure for multiple nation states, but you also know that you can’t be everyone all the time, so you’ve extended your ownership to ensure the SDLC and governance processes are both efficient and responsible. • You are intelligent and industrious, but people don’t know that because you tell them. Its because they see it in the way you lead. From ideation where you make everyone’s ideas feel heard and respected all the way through to production crisis where you stick with the engineers to overcome oversights not found until the last minute. Your personal culture sets the team culture. Proficiencies • Deep experience in financial services — particularly in payments industry and hands on experience designing for standard and regulatory compliance – PCI-DSS, GDPR, etc. • Data-intensive designing and architecture patterns – APIs, event-driven-services, batch-services, messaging systems, and big data. • Data-intensive programming – Java, REST API, Microservices, Kafka, Axon, MQ, and Spring. • Cloud and Dev Ops Architecture – Kubernetes, Docker, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry • Databases – Oracle, SQL server, Postgre SQL, Cassandra, Elastic Search • Tools – Eclipse or Intelli J, Sonar, GIT, Maven, SQL Developer, Jenkins, CI/CD, Gatling Education • Required undergraduate degree in Computer Science or in a STEM-intensive degree program with related experience in software engineering. • Preferred graduate degree in Computer Science or Business with related experience in fintech and payments. 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. Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them. Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along. Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights. People need financial access; we connect them. Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple. Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way. Governments need greater efficiencies; we help create them. Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers. Retailers want to fight fraud; we provide the tools.