Principal Software Engineer, 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
- You like to work on a team that is building industry leading solutions for fighting fraud
- You want to learn cutting edge technologies and help solve complex business problems
- You have creative problem-solving techniques
- Motivated to be a part of an organisation that is driving a world beyond cash
- 10+ years’ experience as a Software Engineer / Software Developer / Full Stack Developer
- Strong knowledge of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices
- In depth knowledge of JavaScript, Node.js, Express, React.js, and Angular.js
- In depth knowledge of Cloud provider (PCF, AWS, Azure), Container and Container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- In depth knowledge of Advance Java, Spring boot and Spring framework, Persistence framework, Performance tools, Apache Nifi, Apache Spark, Object storage, Messaging service, Testing framework
- Understanding of use cases for advanced design to implement efficient code
- 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
- Able to handle multiple high priority demands while driving consistent results
- Strong communication skills – both verbal and written – and strong relationship, collaborative, and customer service skills
- Able to work as a member of a diverse and geographically distributed team
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies, development tools, and frameworks and mentor junior team members
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering
What the job involves
- As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in leading the design, development, and implementation of our software solutions
- 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,
- Lead the end-to-end software development life cycle, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, and deployment
- Participate in designing highly scalable, fault tolerant, and performant systems on prem and in cloud
- Ensure project implementation(s) and technical delivery are compliant with solution architectural design and best practices
- Ensure that technical designs and deliveries are aligned with business needs, infrastructure capabilities and security & compliance requirements
- Evaluate current and emerging technologies via Proof of Concepts or similar
- Assist with project scoping, sizing, prioritizing, planning, and estimation
- Identify and mitigate existing business risk(s) associated with solution architecture and technical designs
- Analyse ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns
- Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews
- Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health
- Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless post-mortems
- Ensure that technical designs and deliveries milestones are accomplished on time
- Liaise with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements, ensuring alignment with overall company goals
- Find resilient and reliable solutions to integration challenges with vendors and /or acquired entities, that meet Mastercard's high security and quality standards
- Set priorities, objectives, and driving deliverables within global technology domains and sub-domains
- Engage with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation, often evaluating new solutions and recommending future business platform system requirements
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of software engineers, guiding them in best practices, code reviews, and problem-solving
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.
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Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Trust - integrity, respect, openness
- Agility - urgency and value through innovation
- Partnership - working as one team for the benefit of all
- Initiative - taking bold and thoughtful actions
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
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Founders
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.
People progressing
Joined as VP in 2008, promoted 4 times in 11 years to their current position of Executive Vice President.
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