Principal Engineer, Software Engineering

Overview The Transfer Solutions group is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard’s next-generation payment applications—domestic, Cross–Border, and Bill Payments. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Dublin team, focusing on building and operating our Cross-Border payments platform, specifically in the Treasury Management domain. We build software that can be deployed on private or public cloud. In this role, you will design and build software that scales to global markets, enabling secure, seamless, always available Cross-Border payments. This is an exciting engineering leadership role working with a global team passionate about the solutions we deliver to our customers.
Responsibilities 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 outcomes iteratively.
Lead the architecture & design of software systems and applications.
Collaborate with product teams to understand the 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
Leading software development projects, especially at an early stage (PoC, Pilot).
You have working experience across a variety of languages and frameworks.
You love declarative paradigm and functional programming. You focus on continuous improvement.
Your solutions are secure by design.
You build great relationships with technical peers across the organization and actively participate in the Software Engineering Guild.
Skills & Qualifications 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 with 5 9’s availability.
In depth knowledge of Java, Spring framework, persistence and messaging technologies, and testing methodologies and tools.
In depth knowledge of Public Cloud platforms, containers and container orchestration.
Good working knowledge of cryptography functions and PKI infrastructure.
All About You Hands-on technical leader who consistently demonstrates leadership, builds trust, focuses on talent development and inspires the team.
Must be high-energy, detail-oriented and proactive with the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment.
Have a passion for continuous learning and enjoy challenging opportunities.
Strong communication skills – both verbal and written – with strong relationship building, collaborative skills and organizational skills.
Drives outcomes through strong commitment to timely delivery of key objectives.
Have strong decision-making skills, lead retrospection and continually improve as a result.
Must have expert level knowledge of software development processes and be an experienced user of one or more Application Lifecycle Management tools.
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.
Seniority level Mid-Senior level
Employment type Full-time
Job function Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Financial Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Technology, Information and Internet

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