Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Principal Software 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.

Overview

The Mastercard Builders Enablement Program empowers 6000+ Engineers around the globe. Our services enable engineers to focus on delivering business value from ideation to market. The ideal candidate will help Mastercard developers efficiently build, test, and deliver secure, quality code. Builders Enablement is reshaping the future of development tooling at Mastercard and we are looking for passionate Software Engineers like you to help us deliver on our commitments.

Role

In this role you will:

• Work on complex and engaging enterprise-wide technology-driven challenges that will have a meaningful impact on Mastercard and its development community

• Drive the delivery of best-of-breed architecture patterns, solutions, and engineering practices

• Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence

• Mentor and guide software engineers and lead the team to improve engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance

• Actively engage with business/product owners to plan, architect, and deliver new services, products, and bundles

• Take ownership to improve the customer experience of an entire set of services/applications sold as products or bundled services

• Advocate for Mastercard Engineering Principles, development standards, and Corporate Security guidelines

• Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests

• Consult across teams and across program lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities

• Engage in organization-wide and public speaking engagements and publish white papers and blogs on relevant and emerging technical topics

• Actively assist with hiring engineering talent and raising the performance bar

• Exercise your expertise and domain knowledge as the Architectural lead for the design, development, and adoption of state-of-the-art technology solutions in support of Mastercard's growing Software Development Community

• You will contribute as a Principal Engineer across multiple initiatives to deliver an efficient and secure SDLC in Mastercard from the initial ideation to production deployment

• Play a key role in shaping the future of software development in Builders Enablement and across Mastercard

• Actively participate as a member of the Software Engineering Guild sharing your knowledge, best practices, ideas, and passion for technology

All About You

• A passionate and experienced Architect with deep domain knowledge and expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Software Engineering – API's, frameworks

• Kubernetes and / or PCF

• Cloud Engineering

• Experience with Design Patterns and Enterprise Integration Patterns

• Demonstrated experience building scalable, high availability systems

• Proficiency in OOP/OOAD with Java JDK 8 or higher

• Knowledge of Tomcat, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate, REST microservices architecture.

• Experience with SQL, Multi-threading, Message Queuing & Distributed Systems

• Expertise in Junit or other automated unit testing frameworks

• Fluent in the use of Git, Jenkins

• Ability to define & implement best practices regarding Continuous Delivery / Deployment pipelines.

• Good working knowledge of container technologies

• Experience working in a regulated environment with secure software development practices (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR)

• Experience in performance testing with JMeter, Gatling and similar tools

• Experience with building upon and contributing to innersource projects (e.g. CI/CD, Shared libraries, reusable automation & monitoring)

• Experience automating processes to improve developer efficiency

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.