Lead architecture and design for large-scale, distributed software systems at Mastercard Foundry. Influence technical decisions across teams, collaborate with product organizations, ensure security and operability, and drive engineering excellence. The role requires designing highly available systems supporting millions of transactions, applying resiliency and scalability patterns, and providing hands-on technical leadership across complex engineering initiatives.
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
Job Description Summary
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
Mastercard is looking for a talented Principal Software Engineer to join the Mastercard Foundry Research and Development team in Nairobi. In this role you will be working with a highly agile development team building innovative large-scale software platforms and solutions from ideation to release.
Our team is built on a foundation of research and development, mining innovation internally, innovating new product lines with emerging technology, managing new products from inception to market validation and engaging strategically with start-ups to shape the future of commerce with and for our customers.
At Mastercard Foundry you will help define the future of commerce through new product development, emerging technology research and thought leadership.
About the Role:
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will:
- Lead the architecture & design of software systems and applications
- Influence architecture decisions across multiple teams
- Collaborate with product teams to understand requirements, identify solutions, and provide technical thought leadership
- Ensure solutions meet corporate security standards and adhere to operability principles.
- Drive a culture of engineering excellence
- Build great relationships with technical peers across the organization
All About You
- Broad experience as a Software Engineer / Full Stack Developer
- Working experience across a variety of languages and frameworks
- Experience designing distributed, mission-critical, highly available systems supporting millions of transactions daily
- Deep understanding of resiliency, fault tolerance and scalability patterns
- In depth knowledge of Public Cloud platforms, containers and container orchestration
- Hands-on technical leader who consistently demonstrates leadership, builds trust, develops talent and inspires the team
- High-energy, detail-oriented and proactive with the ability to function under pressure with minimal supervision
- 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
- Demonstrates strong decision-making skills
Required Experience
- 12 plus years of software engineering experience in enterprise-scale environments.
- 5 plus years of experience in technical leadership, architecture, or principal engineering roles.
- Proven track record designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience leading complex engineering initiatives across multiple teams.
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:
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
Job Description Summary
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
Mastercard is looking for a talented Principal Software Engineer to join the Mastercard Foundry Research and Development team in Nairobi. In this role you will be working with a highly agile development team building innovative large-scale software platforms and solutions from ideation to release.
Our team is built on a foundation of research and development, mining innovation internally, innovating new product lines with emerging technology, managing new products from inception to market validation and engaging strategically with start-ups to shape the future of commerce with and for our customers.
At Mastercard Foundry you will help define the future of commerce through new product development, emerging technology research and thought leadership.
About the Role:
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will:
- Lead the architecture & design of software systems and applications
- Influence architecture decisions across multiple teams
- Collaborate with product teams to understand requirements, identify solutions, and provide technical thought leadership
- Ensure solutions meet corporate security standards and adhere to operability principles.
- Drive a culture of engineering excellence
- Build great relationships with technical peers across the organization
All About You
- Broad experience as a Software Engineer / Full Stack Developer
- Working experience across a variety of languages and frameworks
- Experience designing distributed, mission-critical, highly available systems supporting millions of transactions daily
- Deep understanding of resiliency, fault tolerance and scalability patterns
- In depth knowledge of Public Cloud platforms, containers and container orchestration
- Hands-on technical leader who consistently demonstrates leadership, builds trust, develops talent and inspires the team
- High-energy, detail-oriented and proactive with the ability to function under pressure with minimal supervision
- 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
- Demonstrates strong decision-making skills
Required Experience
- 12 plus years of software engineering experience in enterprise-scale environments.
- 5 plus years of experience in technical leadership, architecture, or principal engineering roles.
- Proven track record designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience leading complex engineering initiatives across multiple teams.
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.
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