Sr Principal Software Engineer

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

Sr 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.

The Role :

As an A&T Sr 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.

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.

Contribute and lead Guild initiatives to improve the craftmanship of Software Engineering

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.

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 program lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities.

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 of Silo-ed behaviors amongst teams within the program.

Mentor and guide software engineers and leads in the team to improve engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance

Engage with external technical communities to extend our reach and benefit from the discovery outside of Mastercard and our industry.

Run Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs.

Mentor and coach Principal Engineers across the enterprise.

Proactively participate in setting Guild agenda and facilitates Principal community meetings across Mastercard tech hubs.

Assist people managers in the talent management process in hiring strong engineering talent and running performance calibrations.

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

Experienced in leading the initiation and formation of large global projects including architecting, estimating, planning, implementing and operating as well as selecting talent resources across multiple geographies and functions

IT experience with demonstrated thought-leadership and cross-functional influence and partnership demonstrated by a successful track record of enabling business through these technical decisions

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.

Able to produce well written, polished internal and external communications ranging from blog posts to white papers to formal assessment findings.

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 traffic patterns

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

Experience in setting up test environments simulating production set ups, including high availability and monitoring; leverage automation and ephemeral architecture for test environments to drive down run costs

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include : insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri : $200,000 - $320,000 USD