Senior Principal, Software Development Engineer

Our Purpose

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.

Senior Principal, Software Development Engineer

Who is Mastercard?

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.

Mastercard is looking for a talented Senior Principal Software Development Engineer to join the Mastercard Foundry Research and Development team in our New York office. In this role you will be part of a highly agile team building exciting and innovative products delivered at scale to global markets.

Our team is built on a foundation of research and development, mining innovation internally, innovating new product lines with emerging technology, managing new products from inception to market validation and engaging strategically with start‑ups to shape the future of commerce with and for our customers. At Mastercard you will help define the future of commerce globally.

This team will have a diverse focus both in terms of geography and variety of technology challenges driving hard to bring innovative payment solutions to market.

• This role involves working with a team of talented developers to develop high performance Java based solutions.
• Responsible for the analysis, design, and development of software solutions
• Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes, and best practices
• Provides technical leadership to projects including architecting and creating a high‑level design, working with other technical leaders to drive out the detailed design and implementation of highly complex applications, interfaces, and integrations
• Applies technical capabilities within own discipline to coach and develop junior employees
• Integrates at an enterprise level using third‑party middleware or messaging products, or by designing and implementing custom interfaces and mapping for those interfaces
• Responsible for performance engineering of the enterprise software architecture, and providing functional guidance, advice, and/or training to other application developers
• Group‑wide and external public speaking and other communications conveying domain level directions
• Research and evaluates tools and acquisition opportunities to support cross‑domain needs

• Expertise with Java JDK 8 or greater.
• Strong background using Tomcat, Spring, Spring Boot, Shell Scripting, JSON.
• Professional experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or other container orchestration solutions.
• Expertise in Junit or other automated unit testing frameworks.
• Knowledge of CI/CD principles and tools such as Jenkins, Gradle, Maven.
• Knowledge of Source Control Management and working with code in a multi‑developer environment.
• Experience with a UI framework such as React.js a plus.
• Extensive professional experience with AWS

• Loves creating innovative solutions to problems in a collaborative fun environment
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of modern software engineering concepts and methodologies
• Passionate about software development and comfortable in a fluid environment
• Passionate about code quality and coding best practices
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