Mastercard

PrincipalSoftwareEngineer

₹45–70L ~AI est. Pune, India FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Principal Software Engineer at Mastercard. Skills: Software engineering, Platform development, Technical leadership. Serve as technical authority. Provide leadership”

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Solve toughest problems; Address monumental challenges; Resolve last-minute issues

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Profound experience developing scalable, high performing systems, Design and Architecture patterns, Programming experience, Cloud and DevOps Architecture experience, Databases experience, Tools experience

Nice to Have

Kubernetes experience a plus, Docker experience a plus, Chef experience a plus, Azure experience a plus, AWS experience a plus, PostgreSQL experience a plus, Oracle experience a plus, MSSQL experience a plus, Eclipse experience a plus, IntelliJ experience a plus, Sonar experience a plus, GIT experience a plus, Maven experience a plus, SQL Developer experience a plus, Jenkins experience a plus, CI/CD experience a plus

What You'll Do.

Serve as technical authority

Guide critical decisions

Collaborate with partners

Develop creative solutions

Experiment with technology

Build software solutions

Mentor engineering teams

Act as technical team leader

Act as individual contributor

Lead enterprise-wide initiatives

Implement new services

Engage with technical community

Evaluate new solutions

Make decisions on technical direction

Explain technical issues

Explain solution strategies

Ensure accomplishment of technical designs

Ensure delivery milestones

Liaise with stakeholders

Understand business needs

Design high-performance platforms

Develop high-performance platforms

Design globally scalable platforms

Develop globally scalable platforms

Collaborate with SRE teams

Collaborate with Engineering teams

Collaborate with Infrastructure teams

Ensure architectures are robust

Balance hands-on leadership

Focus on SDLC processes

Focus on governance processes

Foster inclusive ideation sessions

Resolve production issues

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Across organizational boundaries; With architects; With product managers; With analysts; With managers; With engineers; With business owners; With product owners; With SRE teams; With Engineering teams; With Infrastructure teams

Communication Scope

Explain technical issues; Explain solution strategies

Full Job Description

**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 ### Overview: • Customer Connectivity is a global Mastercard team that designs, builds and supports service platforms that provide Identity and certificate management functions utilized by global Mastercard application teams. • As a Principal Software Engineer for Employee Access Management, you serve as a technical authority, providing comprehensive leadership and guiding critical decisions across our program and its technology and product partners. You act as a pathfinder, collaborating across organizational boundaries with architects, product managers, analysts, managers, and engineers to develop creative solutions for evolving our growing platform. As an enabler, you take a hands-on approach—experimenting, building, and mentoring engineering teams to successfully implement and deliver these solutions into production. Role: • Acts as a technical team leader and individual contributor, devoting a substantial portion of their time to hands-on work. Recognized as a subject matter expert and authority in their field, they promote innovation and propel organizational growth through their impactful contributions • Lead complex, enterprise-wide initiatives that span multiple services and programs, collaborating with business and product owners, engineers, and architects to design and implement new services that enable the introduction of innovative products and bundles • Responsible for the analysis, design, dev

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