Principal Software Engineer

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 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?
At Mastercard technology, 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 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.

Technology at Mastercard
What we create today will define tomorrow. Revolutionary technologies that reshape the digital economy to be more connected and inclusive than ever before. Safer, faster, more sustainable.
And we need the best people to do it. Technologists who are energized by the challenges of a truly global network. With the talent and vision to create the critical systems and products that power global commerce and connect people everywhere to the vital goods and services they need every day.
Working at Mastercard means being part of a unique culture. Inclusive and diverse, a rich collaboration of ideas and perspectives. A place that celebrates your strengths, values your experiences, and offers you the flexibility to shape a career across disciplines and continents. And the opportunity to work alongside experts and leaders at every level of the business, improving what exists, and inventing what’s next.

About the Role
• Successfully lead multiple initiatives and complex assignments with broad scope and long-term business implications.
• Develop innovative solutions that meet specific business needs.
• Partner with TPMs, PMTs, and lead SDE across the initiatives to lead SDLC efforts.
• Assist and collaborate with solution architects and cross functional teams across the different regions.
• Create proof of concept applications
• Collaborate with business and technical partners
• Assist in the evaluation of 3rd parties and 3rd party products.
• Ensure adherence to established quality control practices.
• Create and maintain technology roadmaps.
• Ensure adherence to established software development process.
• Effectively communicate to management, business owners, and other stake holders.

All About You

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Seasoned tech lead having experienced technologists with technical breadth and depth coupled with strong interpersonal skills.
• An architect who loves to solve complex problems and passionate about designs, quality of deliverables, and collaborating with high performing teammates towards product delivery and support
• Contribute to the delivery of decoupling the existing platforms into smaller reusable services by maintain a technology roadmaps
• Hands on experience in Java/J2EE technologies with, REST APIs, JSON, Postgres, microservices architecture, Spring boot and web app design framework working experience
• Brings in cloud based architect experience and integrating vendor and open source products into an overall systems
• Experience on integration using external third party libraries and APIs, payment gateways, CI understanding
• Expertise and advanced skills in designing, analyzing, troubleshooting, implementing large-scale, robust solutions systems that perform faultlessly at scale, with high availability resilience
• Ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies, frameworks and tools and support & manage multiple concurrent initiative/projects under Strategic Growth and working as a