Software Principal Engineer

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Client: Mastercard, Inc.

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: ffb38e77e8c8

Job Views: 3

Posted: 16.07.2025

Expiry Date: 30.08.2025

Software Principal Engineer (Architect)

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, 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

Software Principal Engineer (Architect)

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company specializing in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and empower an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by ensuring transactions are safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Utilizing secure data and networks, strategic partnerships, and passion, our innovations and solutions support individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses in realizing their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and influences everything we do both within and outside of our company. With connections spanning more than 210 countries and territories, we are committed to building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

The Virtual Card Management team is seeking a visionary and results-driven Principal Software Engineer (Architecture) to lead architecture for a service group in our critical virtual card platform for Corporate Solutions. This role is pivotal in driving engineering excellence, scaling delivery capabilities, and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. You will be responsible for aligning architecture and engineering strategy with business goals, mentoring high-performing teams, and ensuring the successful delivery of complex software. The Virtual Card Management group is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard's next-generation virtual card management platform.

In this role, you will design and build software that scales to global markets, enabling secure, seamless, and always-available virtual card platforms. This is an exciting engineering leadership role working with a global team passionate about delivering solutions to our customers.

Role

In this role, you will drive collaboration across engineering, product management, enterprise functions, and regional business teams. You will also lead by defining the technical strategy, architecture, design, and execution to achieve our objectives.

As a principal software engineer, you will:

• Drive business outcomes with the right technology solutions
• Lead the architecture & design of software systems and applications
• Collaborate with product teams to understand requirements, identify solutions, and provide technical thought leadership
• Have experience implementing Domain Driven Design methodology
• Ensure solutions meet corporate security standards and adhere to operability principles

Drive a culture of engineering excellence

• Lead software development projects, especially at an early stage (PoC, Pilot)
• Have experience across a variety of languages and frameworks
• Love declarative paradigms and functional programming
• Focus on continuous improvement
• Ensure solutions are secure by design
• Build strong relationships with technical peers across your organization

Skills

• Broad experience as a Software Engineer / Full Stack Developer
• Hands-on experience implementing design patterns and using multiple programming languages
• Experience building and operating scalable global platforms with high throughput and 5 nines availability
• In-depth knowledge of Java, Spring framework, persistence and messaging technologies, and testing methodologies and tools
• Knowledge of Public Cloud platforms, containers, and orchestration
• Good understanding of cryptography functions and PKI infrastructure

All About You

• Hands-on technical leader demonstrating leadership, trust-building, talent development, and inspiration
• High-energy, detail-oriented, proactive, able to work under pressure
• Passionate about continuous learning and challenging opportunities
• Strong communication skills, relationship building, collaboration, and organization
• Committed to timely delivery of objectives
• Strong decision-making skills, leading retrospection, and continuous improvement
• Expert in software development processes and familiar with Application Lifecycle Management tools

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks carry inherent risks. 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 confidentiality and integrity of accessed information
• Report suspected security violations or breaches
• Complete mandatory security trainings