Principal Software Engineer

As a Software Architect for the Mastercard Commercial Solutions platform, you ll bring your expertise with modern software architecture designed for global scale, high-transaction volume, and cloud-native technologies. We re building a global business-to-business (B2B) technology platform to help businesses of all sizes streamline how they manage payments when buying or selling products & services. As a global business, the platform, and services that you architect will deliver software operating at-scale, requiring focus on performance, security, and reliability.

You will be a key contributor in how Mastercard transforms the Commercial B2B space to standardize, automate, and optimize digital payment efficiency for Buyers and Sellers.

Role:
Drive the overall architecture for the Mastercard Commercial Solutions platform using your expertise in microservices-based architectures for the fintech industry.
Ensure that your solutions use 12-factor application design principles.
Design enterprise-grade APIs for services that follow Mastercard best-practices.
Design and maintain technical blueprints and service descriptions for your solutions.
Incorporate high-availability and system resiliency into your solutions to maximize up-time and capacity.
Partner with senior technical and product leaders for the platform on how to deliver on your designs.
Perform reviews to ensure teams are following your designs.
Collaborate with fellow principal engineers, service architects, development teams, operations, and product owners.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to technical leads, and development teams.
Represent the Mastercard Commercial Solutions program group as a contributing architect and technical advocate with other groups within Mastercard.
Partner with the Architecture & Technology team to leverage best practices in global scale systems, including on-soil and cloud deployment scenarios.

All About You:
You have an exceptional foundation in Computer Science fundamentals, web applications & services, and microservices-based software architecture.
You have demonstrated experience architecting solutions based on platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and containers, including PCF, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies.
You have contributed to the design & implementation of high transaction volume, financial (banking, payment) systems that operate at global scale and extreme up-time requirements.
You have experience with web technologies including HTML5, CSS, Javascript, and front-end frameworks such as Angular.
You have extensive experience in designing and building global-scale, back-end micro services using Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Kafka, RabbitMQ
You have a deep understanding of storage technologies such as Oracle, PostgreSQL or SQL Server, and how to effectively leverage them at massive scale.
You have experience with automated testing and successfully releasing software in a continuous delivery model using Git.
You enjoy working in an Agile environment focused on continuous improvement.
You have a strong desire to collaborate and provide mentorship to technology teams.
You enjoy working with product leaders to inform and support options for delivering highly capable solutions that meet market demands.
You desire to be hands-on building prototypes to solve complex business problems.
You have excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical people.
You are a relentless self-starter who works quickly and efficiently to support product and technical objectives.
You advocate for what s technically important and doing the right thing.