Principal Software Engineer - Solution 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 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 - Solution Architect

Overview
Mastercard’s Commercial Solutions team is a rapidly growing organization with responsibilities to deliver innovative solutions to help our customers grow and expand their business. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this dynamic team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer – Solution Architect to lead a cross-functional development team within the Commercial Solutions organization.

Role:
- Build performant, scalable and secure web applications.
- Provide leadership, guidance and direction on systems and web application architecture and system design.
- Guide and coach less experienced engineers.
- Focus on user-centered design.
- Spearhead design, technical and code reviews.
- Implement coding standards and approaches.
- Promote an Agile approach to software development. Insist on a culture of continuous integration and delivery, automation and minimizing blast radius.
- Collaborate with teams across the organization to mitigate risk and resolve dependencies.
- Architect and develop cloud-native applications using Java Spring/Spring Boot.
- Design and implement scalable solutions on cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS.

All About You:
- Successfully designed and developed externally facing web applications utilizing modern single page application frameworks. Angular and React JS experience preferred.
- Deep understanding of JavaScript and its benefits and quirks.
- Successfully designed and developed cloud-ready REST APIs utilizing industry best practices.
- Deep understanding of Java Spring/Spring Boot frameworks for backend development.
- Proven experience with cloud-native architecture and deployment on Azure and/or AWS.
- Deep understanding of Messaging frameworks and event-based architecture and its benefits and quirks.
- Understanding of web application optimizations such as performance and memory optimizations, debugging memory leaks, caching, flame graphs.
- Experience and knowledge of authentication and authorization workflows using concepts like JWT.
- Have proficiency in Quality engineering and experience working with Quality leads to define processes and technologies.
- Passion for improving code quality using approaches such as unit and end-to-end testing.
- Deep knowledge of Continuous Integration and Delivery and toolsets that provide this ability.
- Understanding of agile principles and methodologies and experience implementing and adapting them to fit the team’s needs.
- Use and understand Git-based source control systems.
- Proven experience building ADA and WCAG compliant web applications.

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 [email protected] 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 and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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 of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 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; and many more.

Pay Ranges

Arlington, Virginia: $190,000 - $304,000 USD

O'Fallon, Missouri: $165,000 - $264,000 USD