Principal Software Engineer, Mastercard
Global payments technology company
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Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
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
- You’ve made your career in designing and building high performance, high transaction volume, and globally scalable platforms
- As an individual contributor you made your name by solving the hard problems that no one else could and as your career grew so did the complexity
- Designing and building exceptional software may be one of your greatest strengths, but you understand it’s only part of the broader challenge. You actively collaborate with SRE, Performance Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to ensure architectures are sound, properly tuned, and that your teams’ code is optimized for each environment
- You lead by example—your intelligence and work ethic are evident. From early ideation, where you ensure everyone’s ideas are heard and respected, to production crises, where you stay alongside the engineers to resolve last‑minute issues, your leadership is consistently visible. The culture you embody becomes the culture the team follows
- Extensive experience in software engineering, including secure solution delivery in complex, globally distributed environments
- Deep understanding of software engineering concepts, methodologies, and modern delivery practices
- Experience working with real time, scalable, cloud native systems and CI/CD practices
- Data-intensive designing and architecture patterns – APIs, event-driven-services, batch-services, messaging systems, and big data
- Strong analytical skills with experience developing metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting
- Data-intensive programming – Java, gRPC, REST API, Microservices, Kafka, MQ, and Spring
- Cloud and DevOps Architecture – Kubernetes, Docker, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry
- Databases – Oracle, Apache Druid, In-memory distributed data grid, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, ElasticSearch
- Tools – Eclipse or IntelliJ, Sonar, GIT, Maven, SQL Developer, Jenkins, CI/CD, Gatling
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence without authority
- Preferred: Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering with related experience in fintech and payments
What the job involves
- As a Principal Software Engineer for Authorization Decisioning, you will provide both technical and strategic leadership
- You will play a key role in driving architectural direction and making technical decisions across the program, collaborating closely with our technology and product partners
- You are working across organizational lines to partner with architects, product managers, analysts, managers, and engineers to collaboratively and creatively find solutions to evolving our growing platform
- You are hands-on experimenting, building, creating, guiding, and mentoring engineering teams through to seeing the realization of these solutions into production
- Between 20-40% individual contributor with technical team leadership. Who is recognised as a team/s authority and technical expert within a discipline and drives innovation and organisational growth through their contributions
- Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drives resolution by collaborating with business/product owners, engineers, and architects to design and deliver on new services to introduce new products
- Has skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders
- Own and drive technology roadmaps aligned to departmental strategy and long term business vision for Authorisation Decisioning
- Set priorities, objectives, and drive deliverables within global technology domains and sub-domains and engage with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation and evaluate new solutions for future business platform system requirements
- Leverages input of partners and personal experience to make thoughtful decisions on technical direction and then has the ownership to see those decisions through
- Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems, taking a holistic approach to problem-solving during production events
- Explain technical issues and solution strategies to stakeholders, ensure timely accomplishment of technical designs and delivery milestones and liaise with stakeholders to understand business needs
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
Leadership
Michael Miebach
(CEO)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.
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