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?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview

Real-Time Payments (RTP) offer immediate transfer and detailed messaging options for A2A (Account to Account) payments and are critical on Mastercard’s journey for Multi-Rail Payments. Real Time Payments are categorized as Critical National Infrastructure for respective countries’ and requires high benchmark of resilience, availability, quality, and scalability.

The Real Time Payments team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer with proven experience in Software Engineering. Are you:
• The one who can provide architectural direction to the department aligning to Matercard Engineering Principles and meeting busieness requirements
• Able Conceptualize, rationalize, and drive multiple simultaneous projects to deliver engineering work across the portfolio.
Role
All staff at Mastercard are expected to demonstrate 'Mastercard Way' every day – create value for our customers, partners and colleagues; grow together to achieve our goals and move faston what matters most for our customers and Mastercard

• We demonstrate 'Mastercard values every day – create value, grow together, move fast, & do the right thing. As a Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard, you are expected to carry out the following general duties:
• 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
• Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies
• 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
• Take on organization-wide and public speaking engagements and publishes white papers and blogs on relevant and emerging technical topics
• Participate and contribute to Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs
• Own complex problems which have dependencies across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution.
• Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements.
• Drive innovation to make our engineering teams more effective and efficient optimizing the SDLC.
• Identify opportunities for automation in tasks and software delivery.
• Provide development and architecture guidance to team members. Introduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines.
• Help drive our engineering culture through mentoring, assisting peers and a relentless focus on developer experience. Participate in the Software Engineering Guild and special interest groups.
• Lead and participate in architectural design reviews, troubleshooting, pair programming and supporting related teams.
• Write recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one's accomplishments
• Utilise internal IaaS, PaaS, & SaaS tooling and contribute improvements.
• Work in a Scrum team with internal customers and stakeholders distributed globally.


Experience and Skillsets
• Strong experience across the full SDLC.
• Has experience providing technical leadership and delivering global projects across multiple locations and functions.
• Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages, secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management.
• Strong experience with scripting languages such as Python, Groovy and Bash and an appreciation of Object-oriented programming (OOP).
• Strong experience in a cloud-based environment (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Strong knowledge of configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
• Strong experience & hands on knowledge of Unix/Linux.
• 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)
• Strong experience with Git version control, branching strategies, dependency management (e.g. Maven).
• 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
• 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).
• Strong experience using critical thinking to solve a range of technical challenges.


Experiences & Skills - Essential

• Experience with static code analysis & security scanning pipelines and associated tooling.
• Experience designing and implementing centralised monitoring solutions including logging, monitoring, alerting.
• Experience with advance Java and Spring frameworks.
• Experience in building low-latency, high-throughput real-time transaction applications.
• Knowledge of at least one RDBMS (e.g. Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and messaging middleware (Kafka, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ).

Work Schedules
• We currently operate a hybrid working pattern which allows colleagues to gain a work life balance with the requriement to work from the office and home for part of the week
• Open to working flexible hours that overlap with European time zones

Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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.