Principal Software Engineer

Are you a collaborator capable of communicating effectively with Business and IT stakeholders across all organizational levels?

Are you an innovator who embraces, adopts, and studies the latest technology to solve challenging business problems?

If this describes you, Mastercard wants to talk to you about an opportunity to work with our Connect (User-Access) team.

Role Needs

• Partner with stakeholders and product leaders to provide innovative solutions for continuously evolving application security, Connect (User-Access) and localization requirements.
• Drive the architecture for Connect (User-Access) products using your expertise in microservices-based architectures for the fintech industry.
• Ensure that your solutions use 12-factor application design principles.
• Design enterprise-grade APIs for services that follow Mastercard best-practices.
• Design and maintain technical blueprints and service descriptions for your solutions.
• Incorporate high-availability and system resiliency into your solutions to maximize up-time and capacity.
• Partner with senior technical and product leaders for the platform on how to deliver on your designs.
• Perform reviews to ensure teams are following your designs.
• Collaborate with fellow principal engineers, service architects, development teams, operations, and product owners.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to technical leads, and development teams.
• Represent the Connect (User-Access) program group as a contributing architect and technical advocate with other groups within Mastercard.
• Partner with the Architecture & Technology team to leverage best practices in global scale systems, including on-soil and cloud deployment scenarios.

Key Skills

• Java (Core, Concurrency, Multithreading, Spring Framework, Hibernate)
• Microservices, REST APIs, MOM, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Kafka, Apache Pulsar
• JUnit, Mockito, Integration Testing
• PCF, Kubernetes, EC2, ECS, NLB, ELB, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS (or similar experience around any cloud platform).
• Distributed Systems Architecture & Design (large-scale, low-latency systems)
• Optimization Performance Profiling & Tuning, Design Patterns & Best Practices
• Team & Technical Leadership, Mentoring Junior Engineers, Cross-Functional Team Collaboration, Stakeholder Engagement & Requirement Analysis, Strategic Planning & Execution

All About You

• You have an exceptional foundation in Computer Science fundamentals, web applications & services, and microservices-based software architecture.
• You have demonstrated experience architecting solutions based on platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and containers.
• You have contributed to the design & implementation of high transaction volume, systems that operate at global scale and extreme up-time requirements.
• You have extensive experience in designing and building global-scale, back-end micro services using Java, Spring, Spring Boot, and event-based systems like Kafka.
• You have a deep understanding of No-SQL storage technologies such as MongoDB.
• You have experience with automated testing and successfully releasing software in a continuous delivery model using Git, Jenkins, Chef etc.
• You enjoy working in an Agile environment focused on continuous improvement.
• You have a strong desire to collaborate and provide mentorship to technology teams.
• You enjoy working with product leaders to inform and support options for delivering highly capable solutions that meet market demands.
• You desire to be hands-on building prototypes to solve complex business problems.
• You have excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical people.
• You are a relentless self-starter who works quickly and efficiently to support product and technical objectives.
• You advocate for what's technically important and doing the right thing.

Education

• BS/MS degree or foreign equivalent in computer science, engineering, or related field.

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.