Principal 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 Engineer

Who 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.


The Disputes Lifecycle team develops new capabilities for Mastercard and its customers. We protect cardholders and card issuers and help them manage their daily spending patterns. To enable us to uphold the high standard of these applications we are looking for out-of-the-box thinkers to play a critical role in the upkeep and continual health of these products.


We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in leading the design, development, and implementation of our software solutions. You will have the opportunity to work on complex and innovative projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive technical excellence and deliver high-quality , proactively adding scalability while continuing to add enhanced value to these products.

The Principal Software Engineering role will ensure these products continue to meet the high expectations from our customers by notably improving existing functionality, updating stale or outdated functions,
• Would you like to work on a team that is building industry leading solutions for fighting fraud?
• Do you want to learn cutting edge technologies and help solve complex business problems?
• Do you have creative problem-solving techniques?
• Are you motivated to be a part of an organisation that is driving a world beyond cash?


Role:
Lead the end-to-end software development life cycle, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
Participate in designing highly scalable, fault tolerant, and performant systems on prem and in cloud.
Ensure project implementation(s) and technical delivery are compliant with solution architectural design and best practices.
Ensure that technical designs and deliveries are aligned with business needs, infrastructure capabilities and security & compliance requirements.
Evaluate current and emerging technologies via Proof of Concepts or similar.
Assist with project scoping, sizing, prioritizing, planning, and estimation.
Identify and mitigate existing business risk(s) associated with solution architecture and technical designs.
Analyse ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns.
Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless post-mortems
Ensure that technical designs and deliveries milestones are accomplished on time.
Liaise with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements, ensuring alignment with overall company goals.
Find resilient and reliable solutions to integration challenges with vendors and /or acquired entities, that meet Mastercard's high security and quality standards.
Set priorities, objectives, and driving deliverables within global technology domains and sub-domains.
Engage with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation, often evaluating new solutions and recommending future business platform system requirements.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of software engineers, guiding them in best practices, code reviews, and problem-solving.

All About You:
10+ years’ experience as a Software Engineer / Software Developer / Full Stack Developer
Strong knowledge of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices
In depth knowledge of JavaScript, Node.js, Express, React.js, and Angular.js
In depth knowledge of Cloud provider (PCF, AWS, Azure), Container and Container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
In depth knowledge of Advance Java, Spring boot and Spring framework, Persistence framework, Performance tools, Apache Nifi, Apache Spark, Object storage, Messaging service, Testing framework
Understanding of use cases for advanced design to implement efficient code.
Understanding of Application Programming Interface (API) standards and experience cataloguing to drive API/service adoption and commercialization.
Proven track record of designing and developing large-scale, enterprise-grade software solutions.
Able to handle multiple high priority demands while driving consistent results
Strong communication skills – both verbal and written – and strong relationship, collaborative, and customer service skills
Able to work as a member of a diverse and geographically distributed team.
Ability to quickly learn new technologies, development tools, and frameworks and mentor junior team members.
Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering

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.