Director of Software Engineering, Mastercard
Global payments technology company
Open for applications
Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- Expert in building highly resilient & scalable distributed systems. Has deep exposure to various database, messaging & caching technologies
- Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages (e.g., Java, .NET, JavaScript, SQL), secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management
- Has an expert understanding and experience of DevOps best practices to guide developers and abstract application development from underlying hosting platforms and infrastructure. Infrastructure as code and cloud first software development knowledge experience preferred
- Experienced in the skills required to implement advanced test set ups in production environment (e.g., A/B testing, canary releases, blue-green deployment, feature flags)
- Experience in Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization
- Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mainframe) to write interoperable and performant code
- Has skills to develop and evangelize on reference architecture and run principles to help teams adopt Engineering Principles from the start (poison pill, active/active/active, auto-scaling, self-healing, others)
- Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading, all from gang of four) to implement efficient code
- Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization
- Has skills to promote and coach teams on take on full stack development and facilitate end-to-end service ownership
- Has skills to engage engineers across Technology organization to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services
- Has experience in leading and coaching teams to perform software planning and estimation for large scale complex programs
- Has skills to drive trade-off discussions to set right development capacity based on value drivers (e.g., regulatory, security, new business, market parity, technical debt)
- Has experience in design and execution of automation across multiple business areas and provides guidance on best methods and tools
- Performance engineering experience to ensure applications are built to scale, run, and perform for varying demands
- Has skills to evaluate practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize SDLC methodologies and automate processes to improve lead time and quality
- Has skills to perform architecture and cost analysis for internal, hybrid, and public cloud environments
- Has skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders
- Has skills to define and drive advanced chaos and other operational testing practices to test points of failures, monitors, and system behaviors under adverse conditions (e.g., resource spikes, network congestion, component or infrastructure failure)
- Experienced in agile and modern SDLC practices (Scrum/Kanban/Continuous Delivery/DevOps/Quality engineering) and the delivery situations they are used for
What the job involves
- Mastercard is looking for a talented Principal Software Engineer to join the Mastercard Cross Border Services team in our New York City that’s focussed in building Cross Border Services (XBS) capabilities to financial services
- This role will be pivotal for XBS in the cloud transformation journey
- In this role you will be part of a highly agile team building exciting and innovative products delivered at scale to global markets
- Technology leader who is hands-on & and can lead a team of engineers
- Expected to spend a significant % of time coding/on code related activities and remainder on coaching engineers on the team
- This person is recognized as a team’s authority and technical expert who drives innovation and organizational growth through their contributions
- They implement, monitor and maintain compliance and security concerns in CI/CD pipelines to bring life to the principle of “Code is Design and Design is Code”
- Domain driven design in their game
- They code to enforce the contextual mappings and aggregates for each bounded context
- They drive implementation of consumer driven contracts to allow for evolution and learning of the domain model with hyper speed while meeting our promises to other teams internally and customers alike
- They are polyglot engineering gurus
- They bring cutting edge engineering practices to life in multiple evolving frameworks – Feature flags, fitness functions and whatever is required to reduce the cost and increase the lifecycle value of next feature delivered by engineering teams
- They love declarative paradigm and functional programming
- No one can stop them from paying off technical debt and refactoring the code for better SDLC, performance and availability
- Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drives resolution
- Work with business/product owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles
- Participate and contribute to team’s agile process and decisions
- Understand and contribute to Prioritization
- Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners
- Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies
- Take ownership to improve the customer experience of an entire set of services/applications sold as products or bundled services
- Contribute and lead Guild initiatives by engaging and mentoring Engineers at all levels to improve the craftmanship of Software Engineering
- Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy
- Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests
- Venture beyond comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of Software Engineering
- Participate and contribute to Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs
- Write recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one's accomplishments
- Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar
- Identify and raise awareness to Silo-ed behaviors within the organization and teams
Application process
- End Date: February 28, 2025
Our take
Mastercard is in the global payments business, and operates the world's fastest payments processing network. Its products and solutions have become central to everyday commerce across the world, in activities ranging from shopping and travelling to running businesses.
As the economy has become more and more digitised, Mastercard has been a leading player in helping businesses and individuals across the globe embrace card payments and digital banking. One of the world's largest companies, its revenue has seen consistent gain in the last 20 years.
The challenge for modern payments companies is that payments are always changing, as seen in the astronomical rise of contactless payments over the last decade. Mastercard's acquisition of blockchain systems, and an overall focus on leveraging its technology towards a digital economy, has placed the company in good stead to keep up to date with current trends, like cryptocurrency, in the digitised payments world.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Trust - integrity, respect, openness
- Agility - urgency and value through innovation
- Partnership - working as one team for the benefit of all
- Initiative - taking bold and thoughtful actions
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
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Leadership
Michael Miebach
(CEO, not founder)Has served in a variety of roles at the company, including President and CPO. Currently Board Member at IBM, Accion, the World Resources Institute, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, and the Metropolitan Opera. They are also a Trustee of USCIB.
People progressing
Joined as VP in 2008, promoted 4 times in 11 years to their current position of Executive Vice President.
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