Principal Software Engineer

Working at Mastercard means being part of a unique culture. Inclusive and diverse, a rich collaboration of ideas and perspectives. A place that celebrates your strengths, values your experiences, and offers you the flexibility to shape a career across disciplines and continents. And the opportunity to work alongside experts and leaders at every level of the business, improving what exists, and inventing what’s next.

Overview

This position is a member of the STRM - Security Threat and Response Management team which is responsible for security monitoring and response functions for Mastercard, accounting for both physical and cyber security events. Engineer would build new software capabilities, support existing solutions, provide technical oversight and lend its expertise to the program.

Role

• Design secure, reliable, and scalable solutions for globally distributed customer facing products.
• Collaborate closely with the global Solution Architecture & Engineering team to define principles and best practices
• Engage with wider Mastercard Architecture & Technology teams to ensure alignment on the wider technical strategies and policies within Mastercard
• Support development teams and work with stakeholders, promoting agile development
• Create a culture of technical excellence and innovation
• Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives for the business needs using current and upcoming technologies and frameworks
• They are hands on all the time and collaborate by writing interfaces, tests; unit or acceptance and architecture fitness functions, outside of meeting rooms.
• Work with business / product owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles
• Participate and contribute to team’s agile process and decisions. Understand and contribute to Prioritization. Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners
• 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 Squad 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
• 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

Technologies : -

1. Java, J2EE, micro services, RESTful APIs, Angular, Web Services, JavaScript, Docker

2. Framework - Spring (Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Batch, Spring REST, Spring Cloud, AOP), Hibernate

3. UI / UX frameworks and best practices (React, Angular)

4. API tooling and design best practices

5. Cloud and DevOps Architecture, especially via Pivotal Cloud Foundry

6. Databases – Oracle, SQL server, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, ElasticSearch

7. Tools - Eclipse or IntelliJ, Sonar, GIT, Maven, SQL Developer, Jenkins, CI / CD, Gatling

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