Job Description

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:

Architecture &Technology A&T is a team of specialists and senior engineers who reach across Programs and teams across Mastercard. We extend our reach by sponsoring and supporting the Software Engineering Guild. Our focus is reviewing, teaching, making rules when necessary, and leaning in to help teams solve hard problems. We are we are skilled in security, design for operability and customer experience, privacy, and regulatory compliance and experts on our Technology Policies. We are the stewards of several of these policies including the Engineering Principles, Software Development Lifecycle Process, External Cloud Policy, and others as needed. We maintain these and other documents using an open contribution model: anyone can propose changes and we carefully review those and incorporate them into our documents. Finally, we maintain several libraries of code that help our engineering teams move faster, avoid re-inventing wheels, and eliminate undifferentiated heavy lifting. These may be built by A&T team members, curated from best practices in other Mastercard teams, or co-developed by A&T and engineers from the Guild.

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 and technical problems?

Do you have the experience and range to speak at internal event, write and defend guidance on a distributed computing patterns such as consensus or observability, and conduct a hands-on R&D effort with open source, commercial products, and proprietary code?

The Role:

As an A&T Principal Software Engineer you will participate in numerous engagements with Mastercard engineering teams, as well as A&T deliverables such as patterns, frameworks, proof-of-concepts, incubated solutions, policy and standards updates, and shared libraries.

For some of these you will be spearheading the delivery personally or providing technical leadership to a group of contributors. For others you will be performing more of an advisory, mentoring role, coaching and providing feedback to help the engineering teams improve their designs, solve their problems, and become better engineers. You will spend a portion of your time coding as part of some of these internal activities and reviewing code on some of the engagements.

A&T assignments range broadly across all parts of the company, and all layers of the technology stack. On one assignment you may be participating in the Technical Due Diligence of a potential acquisition, on the next helping an engineering team for a mission critical payments application with their modernization roadmap, and on the one after that be down in the details of distributed computing platform services.

As part of your duties you will:

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

Distributed Computing Architecture including current hand-on coding

Strong Communications

Future Focus

Global Perspective

Business Acumen

Commercial Focus

Personal Influence

People Leadership

Innovation and Thought Leadership

Skills and 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.