Principal Software Engineer

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Title and Summary

Principal Software Engineer

Overview:

The Treasury Services Program is one of the key businesses of Mastercard. It provides vital systems and services to the Mastercard Treasury and Finance team to support global payments/customer funds movement, treasury operations, liquidity, foreign exchange, risk management, and capital management. As the engineering team of Treasury Service, we are directly responsible for moving billions of dollars in domestic and cross-border currencies worldwide daily between our customers. We are an agile development organization with teams distributed globally across technology hubs in the U.S., India, and Ireland.

We are looking for a Software Architect with strong well-rounded software architecting skills. This role provides technical leadership, drives innovation, and oversees complex software solutions development to support the Treasury Service organization worldwide. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including architects, developers, quality engineers, and product managers, to design, implement, and deliver high-quality software products. Your expertise and experience in these technologies will be instrumental in guiding technical decisions, ensuring scalability and performance, and mentoring the engineering team.

Roles:

All staff at Mastercard are expected to demonstrate 'Mastercard Way' cultural values daily - Create Value, Grow Together, Move Fast. As a Principal Software Engineer at Mastercard, you are expected to perform the following general duties:

• Mentor and guide software engineers and lead the team to improve engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance.
• Consult across teams and program lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities.
• Work on complex initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drive resolution.
• Set and exemplify software engineering standards with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence.
• Ensure software quality through code reviews, testing best practices, and continuous integration processes.

Responsibilities:

As a principal software engineer within the Treasury Service Program, you will be responsible for the following:

• Providing technical leadership and guidance to the engineering team throughout the software development lifecycle. Leading by example, demonstrating best practices, and fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.
• Collaborating with other architects and stakeholders to define the software architecture, system components, and integration points. Ensure the design aligns with business requirements, scalability, and performance objectives.
• Enforcement of the Opensource culture, identifying candidates to be promoted to common and reusable within the Treasury Service Program, and documenting the architecture developed via high- and lower-level design.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices.
• Evaluate new technologies, tools, and frameworks to improve the software development process, enhance system performance, and increase team productivity.


Qualifications:

• Broad understanding of coding and programming languages. such as Java, C++, and/or JavaScript.
• Broad understanding of frameworks, such as Spring Framework.
• Experience with database design and data modeling
• Extensive knowledge of designing distributed systems, especially global distribution.
• Extensive knowledge of messaging systems, including IBM-MQ, Apache Kafka, NATS
• Extensive knowledge of domain-driven design, microservice principles, and event-driven architecture.
• Excellent understanding of design patterns and architectural styles
• Proficient knowledge of the operation and development designs of agile software
• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, etc.)
• Experience with public cloud, such as Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• 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 the right development capacity based on value drivers (e.g., regulatory, security, new business, market parity, technical debt)
• Has skills to simplify deployment and eliminate software and infrastructure snowflakes using standardized platforms, ephemeral instances, and automation

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.