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Job Title

Principal Software Engineer

Overview

As a Principal Engineer at the Paved Path Framework (PPF) Organization, you will be responsible for driving the technical direction, architecture, design, and engineering practices of software frameworks. PPF is an organization within Mastercard that enables software engineering staff to focus on delivering customer value by providing software frameworks that eliminate undifferentiated heavy lifting and align with our Engineering Principles. Mastercard builds and operates large-scale, highly distributed systems that process over 1 billion transactions per day, and PPF plays a key role in enabling this.

This is an individual contributor role reporting directly to the leader of the PPF Organization. The ideal candidate should be passionate about technology and software development, hands-on, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possess strong technical leadership skills.

Role

The key responsibilities of this role are:

• Identifying synergies and reuse opportunities across teams and programs.
• Collaborating with business and product owners to architect and deliver new services and ensuring that these services meet customer needs.
• Leading the technical direction, architecture, design, and engineering practices for PPF.
• Developing, testing, and deploying software frameworks to enable software engineering teams to deliver business values for our customers.
• Engaging with external technical communities to extend our reach and benefit from the discovery outside of Mastercard and our industry.
• Balancing trade-offs between competing interests with judgment and experience.
• Prototyping and proving concepts for new technologies, application frameworks, and design patterns to improve software development practices.
• Assisting people managers in the talent management process, including hiring strong engineering talent and running performance evaluations.

All About You

The key qualifications of the candidate are:

• Strong knowledge in event-driven architecture, zero trust, or other related areas.
• Strong experience in software development using Java, Go, or other major programming languages to develop high-quality software frameworks.
• Comfortable taking thoughtful risks and acquiring expertise as needed.
• Current, deep, hands-on software engineering experience in architecture, design, and implementation of large-scale distributed systems.
• Able to foster a comfortable environment for tough technical discussions where everyone can be heard.
• Passionate about new technology and able to dive deep to form an objective evaluation and opinion on emerging technologies.
• Rich experience in Java programming language and Spring and other associated frameworks is highly desirable.
• Proven ability to mentor software engineers to improve their technical skills.
• Excellent communication and technical skills, making you a recognized technical leader with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Corporate Security Responsibility

Responsibilities

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

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
• 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