Principal Engineer / Architect, 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
- We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Software Engineer to join our dynamic team
- Would you like to work on a team that is building industry leading solutions for fighting fraud?
- Do you want to learn cutting edge technologies and help solve complex business problems?
- Do you have creative problem-solving techniques?
- Are you motivated to be a part of an organisation that is driving a world beyond cash?
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering
- Several years of experience in software architecture and lead engineering positions
- Strong leadership and management skills
- Excellent problem-solving and technical skills
- Effective communication and teamwork abilities
- Proven ability to manage multiple high priority demands while driving consistent results
- Ability to work as a member of a diverse and geographically distributed team
- Expert knowledge of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices
- Expert knowledge of Advanced Java, Spring Framework, Persistence technologies, Performance tools, and Testing frameworks
- Strong knowledge of Cloud providers (PCF, AWS, Azure), Containers and Container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of Messaging technologies (e.g. Apache Kafka), high volume batch processing technologies (e.g. Apache Spark) a plus
- Understanding of Application Programming Interface (API) standards and experience cataloguing to drive API/service adoption and commercialization
- Proven track record of designing and developing large-scale, enterprise-grade software solutions
What the job involves
- Mastercard’s Dispute Management solutions aim to solve consumer disputes and improve the payment experiences for consumers, issuers and merchants
- With more digital transactions, the need to manage chargebacks is becoming increasingly important
- We aim to improve purchase transparency and simplify the dispute process to protect business revenues and grow customer satisfaction
- As a Principal Software Engineer in Disputes Management, you will play a critical role in leading the design, development, and implementation of our next generation regional and global platforms
- You will have the opportunity to work on complex and innovative projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive technical excellence and deliver high-quality, proactively adding scalability while continuing to add enhanced value to these products
- The Principal Software Engineering role will ensure these products continue to meet the high expectations from our customers by notably improving existing functionality, updating stale or outdated functions,
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of software engineers, guiding them in best practices, and problem-solving
- Designing and developing complex software architectures using Java and microservices
- Setting architectural goals, assigning tasks, and providing guidance and support to team members
- Overseeing the planning, execution, and completion of software architecture projects
- Designing highly scalable, fault tolerant, and performant systems On-Prem and in Cloud
- Supporting services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews
- Maintaining services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health
- Identifying and mitigating risk(s) associated with solution architecture and technical designs
- Practicing sustainable incident response and blameless post-mortems
- Ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget
- Creating technical specifications, conducting architectural reviews, and ensuring adherence to design principles and best practices
- Driving innovation by identifying new architectural patterns and methodologies to improve software systems
- Conducting experiments, simulations, and analyses to develop new architectural solutions
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product management, development, , corporate security, and operations, to align architectural efforts with business objectives
- Coordinating with external partners and stakeholders to leverage additional expertise and resources
- Testing and validating architectural designs to ensure they meet required standards and specifications
- Analyzing data, writing technical reports, and presenting findings to stakeholders
- Implementing process improvements and staying up-to-date with the latest advancements in Java, microservices, and software architecture
Application process
- End Date: May 6, 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.
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, 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.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 148 more jobs at Mastercard