Sr Principal Software Engineer

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

Sr Principal Software Engineer

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 Engineering
Who is Mastercard?

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

Overview:
Customer Access Team is a dedicated collection of self-organizing, high performing, interdependent, co-located individuals representing different functional roles with all the necessary skills to create the foundational security capabilities for application teams. This team leads with mission to provide overall stewardship of enterprise grade application architecture & design within the context of holistic software development. This includes driving the architecture & design decisions and building consensus around it. The team leads the exploration in software architecture & technology innovations along with enabling excellence in overall team.

Are you a collaborator capable of communicating effectively with Business and IT stakeholders across all organizational levels?

Are you an innovator who embraces, adopts, and studies the latest technology to solve challenging business problems?

If this describes you, Mastercard wants to talk to you about an opportunity to work with our Customer Access team.

The Role:

What’s it all about and what we expect you to do day to day?

· At least 50% individual contributor with technical team leadership who is recognized as a departmental authority and technical expert within a discipline, and drives innovation and organizational growth through their contributions.

. Drive the architecture for Customer Access products using your expertise in microservices-based architectures for the fintech industry.

. Ensure that your solutions use 12-factor application design principles.

· Implement, monitor, and maintain compliance and security concerns in CI/CD pipelines to bring life to the principle of “Code is Design and Design is Code”.

· Domain driven design in their game. They code to enforce the contextual mappings and aggregates for each bounded context. They drive implementation of consumer driven contracts to allow for evolution and learning of the domain model with hyper speed while meeting our promises to other teams internally and customers alike.

· Polyglot engineering gurus. They bring cutting edge engineering practices to life in multiple evolving frameworks – Feature flags, fitness functions and whatever is required to reduce the cost and increase the lifecycle value of next feature delivered by engineering teams.

· Love for declarative paradigm and functional programming. No one can stop them in paying off technical debt and refactoring the code for better SDLC, performance and availability.

· 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

· Take ownership to improve the customer experience of an entire set of services/applications sold as products or bundled services

· Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy

· Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests

· Venture beyond comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of Software Engineering

· 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

· Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar

All About You and What you need to bring:

· Product engineering experience that demonstrates thought-leadership and cross-functional influence demonstrated by a successful track record of enabling business through engineering excellence and technical innovation.

. You have an exceptional foundation in Computer Science fundamentals, web applications & services, and microservices-based software architecture.

· Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages e.g., Java, .NET, JavaScript, SQL, secure coding standards e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT, and vulnerability management.

· Expert understanding and experience of DevOps best practices to guide developers and abstract application development from underlying hosting platforms and infrastructure. Infrastructure as code and cloud first software development knowledge experience preferred.

· Experience in the skills required to implement advanced test set ups in production environment such as A/B testing, canary releases, blue-green deployment, feature flags

· Experience in Continuous Integration and Delivery concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization

· Experience in leading the initiation and formation of large global projects including architecting, estimating, planning, implementing, and operating as well as selecting talent resources across multiple geographies and functions.

· Has skills to develop and evangelize on reference architecture and run principles to help teams adopt Engineering Principles from the start such as poison pill, active/active/active, auto-scaling, self-healing, others

· Has skills to promote and coach teams on take on full stack development and facilitate end-to-end service ownership

· Has skills to engage engineers across Technology organization to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services

· Has skills to drive trade-off discussions to set right development capacity based on value drivers such as regulatory, security, new business, market parity, technical debt

· Performance engineering experience to ensure applications are built to scale, run, and perform for varying demands

· Has skills to evaluate practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize SDLC methodologies and automate processes to improve lead time and quality

· Has skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders
Corporate Security Responsibility

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.