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

Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software 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.
Overview
Merchant Acceptance program is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. Responsible for the analysis, design, development, and delivery of software solutions. Defines requirements for new applications and customisations, adhering to standards, processes, and best practices
Role:
• Design, Code, document, test components / subsystems to a high standard
• Drive architecture roadmap of the product
• Ability to handle and work on time critical deliveries
• Should have strong experience in designing and architecting highly scalable solutions, propose best in class design and adhere to upto date security architecture
• Should have excellent knowledge of cryptography concepts
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent team player
• Must be solutions oriented – ultimately find and implement the ‘best fit’ solution to address the requirement on time.
• Assist defining processes and choice of development tools to be used across the group
• Interpret technical specifications to produce detailed design
• Design with future extension in mind
• Perform functional and performance testing of solutions
• Ensure code is easily maintainable and tracked in version control system
• Provide task estimates, level of complexity assessment
• Provide input to scheduling of projects
• Ensure tasks get executed on time and to required standards
• Pass on knowledge of various technologies to other team members and to other functions
Education (preferred):
Bachelor's degree Computer Science (or related discipline)
Knowledge/Experience (preferred):
• Java [J2EE, Grails, Spring, Hibernate]
• Mobile Application & Library Development [Android]
• Good to have - iOS Mobile Application Development [Android]
• Web [Angular, AngularJS, JQuery, CSS, HTML]
• Database [Oracle, Postgres]
• Expert in full stack development.
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Experience in implementing APIs and SDKs
• Discipline of working in a continuous integration, TDD environment.
• Experienced in delivering commercial grade software
• Has been pro-active in creating better user experience, consumer value proposition
• Understands gaps in knowledge and has ability to source training online
• Knowledge of payment protocols, NFC/EMV Technology and PCI DSS will be an advantage
Skills/Abilities:
• High energy, can-do attitude, strong desire to succeed
• Strong Analytical and skills
• Strong communication skills

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.