Principal Software Engineer-R-243819

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

Who Is Mastercard

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible.

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.

Overview

The Mastercard® Cross Border platform and services enable secure, near real-time payment transfers to and from billions of card, bank and digital accounts globally. Program Participants (banks, businesses, digital players and more) can modernize the way they send money cross-border, making funds available to recipients almost instantly. Mastercard Cross Border is proven to increase user spend and engagement, strengthening core business performance.

Do you like to be part of a team that is creating and executing strategic initiatives centered around digital payments?

Do you look forward to developing and engaging with high performant diverse teams around the globe?

Would you like to be part of a highly visible, strategically important global engineering organization?

Role

• Managing multiple scrum teams of Software developers and testers to develop quality software solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Successfully lead definition, development and delivery of major cross-department initiatives with broad scope and long-term business implications.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to software development teams in the development of services and capabilities for cross border platform.
• Work closely with product and architecture teams on product definition, technical design, and overall execution for the team.
• Ensure the project or effort is adequately staffed; trained and managed. Ensure personnel have appropriate skills and behaviours; and effectively communicate performance results; as necessary, managing each effort within approved manpower and budget guidelines
• Technically manage and drive deliveries from scrum teams that will be responsible for:
• design & development of microservices built using Sprintboot on Cloud.
• programming, testing, implementing, documenting, maintaining and supporting applications in adherence with MasterCard standards, processes and industry best practices.
• developing high quality, secure, scalable solutions based on technical requirements specifications and design artifacts within expected time and budget.
• developing enterprise solutions (standalone applications, services & SDK) using J2EE, JDBC (SQL & NoSQL) related technologies like Spring & Spring Framework.
• integrating content feeds via API, JSON, XML, and RSS from both internal and external sources.
• supporting internal and external users of the applications/systems, performing production incident management and participating in on-call escalation pager support rotation.
• documenting application components for support and training materials for MasterCard Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes.
  
  
  

About You

• Hands-on technical leader who brings considerable experience doing application development and managing teams by using a broad range of technologies.
• Hands-on, technical and people leader who regularly dives deep into everything team does.
• Demonstrate leadership, ethics and values to generate high trust with team, peers, and management.
• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented and proactive with the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment.
• Must provide the necessary skills to have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation with a willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities.
• Strong communication skills – both verbal and written – with strong relationship building, collaborative skills and organizational skills.
• Must be obsessed with results, and effectively communicate objectives and how success will be measured to the team and other stakeholders.
• Have strong decision-making skills, lead retrospection and continually improve as a result.
• Understands how to guide an engineer’s career including performance evaluation, coaching, and motivation.
• Must have expert level knowledge of software development processes, and be an experienced user of one or more Application Lifecycle Management tools (e.g., Rally, Jira).
• Enthusiastic, ambitious and confident
  
  
  

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.
  
  
  

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