Senior Principal Software Engineer, R&D

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Senior Principal Software Engineer, R&D

Mastercard is looking for a talented Sr Principal Software Development Engineer to join the Mastercard Foundry Research and Development team in our Arlington, Virginia location. In this role you will be part of a highly agile team building exciting and innovative products delivered at scale to global markets.
Our team is built on a foundation of research and development, mining innovation internally, innovating new product lines with emerging technology, managing new products from inception to market validation and engaging strategically with start-ups to shape the future of commerce with and for our customers. At Mastercard you will help define the future of commerce globally.
This team will have a diverse focus both in terms of geography and variety of technology challenges driving hard to bring innovative payment solutions and services to market.

As a Senior Principal Software Engineer on the R&D team, you will be at the forefront of the design of complex, large-scale new product concepts spanning Mastercard’s business units.

Responsibilities of the role include:
• Design solution architectures for complex, early-stage product concepts in a rapidly changing environment
• Identify highest technical risks and design and lead experiments to mitigate them
• Leverage knowledge of technical and data assets across the enterprise to design efficient, elegant solutions to business problems
• Provide technical leadership on projects to architect, design, implement, deploy, and release highly complex applications, interfaces, and integrations
• Design highly scalable solutions across technology stacks, data platforms, and environments
• Define and lead the technical strategy and architecture for the Data Platforms in Foundry R&D
• Participate in defining best practices and engineering principles as part of the Principal community
• Partner closely and communicate effectively with cross-functional partners, and senior stakeholders, including executives across the organization
• Mentor, coach, and raise the technical performance of junior talent and peers in R&D and across enterprise technology teams
• Lead efforts to raise Mastercard’s external reputation as an innovator through applied research on emerging technology
• Speak internally and externally on innovative R&D work at Mastercard

Skills / Qualifications:
• Expertise leading the architecture, design, implementation, and release of complex products and applications
• Expertise in cloud platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, and Azure
• Deep experience in big data ecosystems and enterprise-scale data and AI products and applications (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of AI/ML, data analytics, and data product development with emphasis on data quality, data privacy, and localization
• Proficiency with Java, Spring Boot, React, Typescript, Postgres and other object-oriented languages, front-end frameworks, and database technologies
• Strong business acumen and ability to apply technology to solve business problems
• Excellent verbal and written communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Proven track record as a highly effective technical mentor


Location Requirements: This is a hybrid position available in Mastercard's Arlington, Virginia or O'Fallon, Missouri locations.

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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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

Arlington, Virginia: $200,000 - $320,000 USD

O'Fallon, Missouri: $174,000 - $278,000 USD