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

Principal Software Engineer

Overview:
Mastercard is recruiting a Principal Engineer to provide technical guidance to software engineering teams that will develop the next evolution of its external and internal customer-facing web platform, Mastercard Connect. Connect is our primary authenticated channel for customer interactions, with thousands of users across nearly 200 countries, representing numerous lines of business, and enabling billions in annual revenue.
This leader will be challenged with enhancing the Connect experience for both our customers and internal users. Their responsibilities will include spearheading complex initiatives, managing interdependencies, and architecting and delivering new services. They will also lead enterprise-wide projects and address regulatory challenges.
Our software engineering teams leverage Agile development principles, advanced development and design practices, and an obsession over security, reliability, and performance to deliver solutions that delight our customers.
- Are you passionate about software engineering?
- Are you fanatical about building large scale, distributed systems the right way?
- Do you want to help software engineers to build better quality software faster?
- Do you firmly believe that code talks, and just about anything else walks?
Job Description
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Consult across teams and across organization lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities
• Participate and contribute to Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs
• Write recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one's accomplishments
• Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar
• Identify and raise awareness to Silo-ed behaviors within the organization and teams
Competencies
Future Focus (Advanced); Global Perspective (Advanced); Business Acumen (Advanced); Commercial Focus (Advanced); Personal Influence (Advanced); People Leadership (Intermediate); Innovation and Thought Leadership (Advanced)
Experiences
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.
Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mainframe) to write interoperable and performant code.
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)
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
Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization
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 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 right development capacity based on value drivers (e.g., regulatory, security, new business, market parity, technical debt)
Has experience in design and execution of automation across multiple business areas and provides guidance on best methods and tools.
Has an expert understanding of DevOps best practices to guide developers and abstract application development from underlying hosting platforms and infrastructure
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 perform architecture and cost analysis for internal, hybrid, and public cloud environments
Has skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders
Has skills to define and drive advanced chaos and other operational testing practices to test points of failures, monitors, and system behaviors under adverse conditions (e.g., resource spikes, network congestion, component or infrastructure failure)
Has skills to implement advanced test set ups in production environment (e.g., A/B testing, canary releases, blue-green deployment, feature flags)

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.