Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Principal Software Engineer 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.OverviewThe Cyber & Intelligence (C&I) team is looking for Principal Software Engineers to drive our strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. The Cyber & Intelligence (C&I) team is responsible for MasterCard s safety and security related product development efforts to protect the integrity of the electronic payment system as well as ensure payments are convenient yet secure. This position is to help develop new capabilities for MasterCards Dispute Platform, which serves as a single point where all issuer and acquires come together to mediate their disputed transactions, exposed via our Developer zone and web presence to 3000+ customers. Responsibilities: 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 ones 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 teamsExperiences 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)About you Education: Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field Experience architecting large and complex systems from the conceptual architecture level down through the application architecture level. Experience architecting high performance and highly scalable systems Experience providing technical thought leadership across an organization A wide breadth and depth of technical experience including Java, Linux, Oracle Experience with agile software development processes and architecture governance processes Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate to an audience at all levels within an organization Self-motivated with the ability to accomplish tasks with minimal direction Ability to multi task and meet deadlinesDesirable Knowledge/Experience Experience with fraud products and platforms Experience integrating with third party platforms Experience with web architecture and application development, including APIs Experience with high performance and highly scalable transaction processing and batch architectures Experience integrating with large volume data warehouse architectures Database experience including Oracle Experience integrating vendor and open source products into an overall system,

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