Principal Software Engineer
Role Overview
Switching Gateway provides a single payment connection that supports Mastercard and non-Mastercard branded financial transactions.
It is a streamlined interface that enables transaction originators and receivers (e.g., merchants, financial institutions, and processors) to connect to other players in the payment ecosystem.
Our team of integrators, analysts, testers and subject matter experts work together to build four platforms that encompasses full lifecycle of payment processing.
We are looking for a Lead Product Manager-Technical to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving.
We are looking for
An engineer who can whiteboard a globally distributed architecture, dive into JVM internals, explain TCP retransmissions, optimize database access patterns, troubleshoot complex production performance issues, and still write production-quality Java code.
Someone who is deeply passionate about software engineering, innovation, and technology craftsmanship, thrives on solving the hardest scalability and distributed systems challenges, and influences the technical direction.
Key Skills for This Role
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Required Experience
- Designed and developed highly available, fault-tolerant, and geographically distributed systems.
- Solved complex consistency, replication, concurrency, caching, and data partitioning challenges.
- Designed and developed systems capable of operating at massive scale with near-zero downtime.
- Driven an architecture review for critical applications and infrastructure platforms.
- Led capacity planning, performance engineering, and resiliency initiatives.
- Demonstrated mastery across the technology stack
- Programming Language Java (preferred)/Go
- Layer 7 protocols (HTTP/REST/gRPC/API Gateway)
- Messaging systems (Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ, Solace)
- Kubernetes, Service Mesh and Microservices
- Databases (SQL/NoSQL/NewSQL/Datawarehouse)
- Operating Systems
- Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing)
- Storage Systems
- Compute, Memory and I/O subsystems
- Understand system behaviour from application requests through network, storage, and hardware layers.
- Role
- Lead architecture and design of large-scale distributed systems serving millions and billions of transactions.
- Design and build shared common reusable libraries and components.
- Drive engineering decisions across multiple products, services, and business domains.
- Define long-term technology strategy, architecture standards, and platform roadmaps.
- Evaluate trade-offs across scalability, resiliency, performance, security, maintainability, and cost.
- Establish engineering patterns, frameworks, and reference architectures for enterprise adoption.
- Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drives resolution.
- Work with business/product owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles.
- Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies.
- Take ownership to improve the customer experience of an entire set of services/applications sold as products or bundled services.
- Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy.
- Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests.
- Venture beyond comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of Software Engineering.
- Take on organization-wide and public speaking engagements and publishes white papers and blogs on relevant and emerging technical topics.
- Consult across teams and across program lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities.
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Programming Language Java (preferred)/Go
About Mastercard
Global payment processing and financial technology service provider.
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