Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

The Builders Hub Team, part of the Mastercard Software Builders Experience program, owns and drives developer experience for the company. The team has a unique opportunity to create a unified internal developer portal supporting and helping to drive a new internal developer platform (IDP). This portal and platform will assist all development teams across Mastercard and its M&A's, with golden paths and automation that reduces toil and cognitive load for developers. The Builders Hub team has a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of an evolving landscape of technology at Mastercard and help shape the future of development, deployment and more!

Role

• Lead the design and implementation of the Internal Developer Portal and Platform
• Drive patterns and standards for Internal Developer Platform integration and automation
• Create mechanisms to ensure alignment to those standards and best practices in an automated fashion
• Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence
• Mentor and guide software engineers and lead the team to improve engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance
• Identify opportunities for reuse and improved efficiency
• Engage with IT and Business partners, product owners and stakeholders to create meaningful roadmaps to ensure the most important work is prioritized
• Champion all Mastercard engineering principles
• Actively participate as a member of the Software Engineering Guild sharing your knowledge, best practices, ideas, and passion for technology
• Help identify and drive meaningful behavior changing metrics

All About You

• 12+ years of lead software engineering experience
• Deep, applied knowledge of designing, implementing and supporting internal development platforms in a multi cloud environment
• Deep understanding of cloud providers including AWS and Azure (services, access controls, integration and automation…etc)
• Solid understanding of cloud security in highly regulated market segments and countries.
• Solid experience with site reliability engineering mindset and creating solutions that are resilient, supportable and observable at all layers of the stack
• Deep understanding of automation using various tools
• Deep understanding of observability in a cloud environment
• Solid understanding of pure Kubernetes and cloud provider based managed services Kubernetes
• Proficient in web service design, standards, best practices and implementation
• Deep understanding of containerization and designing ephemeral solutions
• Proven track record of delivering solutions to complex, multi-domain environments
• Ability to articulate complex designs and solutions to people with varying levels of technical aptitude
• Experienced in guiding less experienced engineers with the use of pair programming, code reviews, design reviews, etc.
• Deep knowledge in migration from legacy technologies and mindset to the best in class solutions for the cloud
• Self-driven and able to navigate complex organizational environments
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to gain alignment / buy-in on any solutions that will require cross functional support
• Strong understanding of different project management methodologies including waterfall and Agile/Scrum
• Strong understanding of all phases of the SDLC process from design to deployment.
• Enthusiastically engages engineers across technology organizations to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services with experience leading open-source development efforts
• Leads by example in establishing enterprise-wide standards for application integration and identifies/anticipates future requirements to support business needs
• Champions performance engineering practices to ensure that performance meets (or exceeds) expectations; educates stakeholders on performance testing processes, methodology, performance and scalability metrics, capacity modeling techniques, and testing approaches
• Understands software development productivity metrics (e.g., code churn, commit size, commits/story) and help teams to remove blockers and continuously improve code velocity, quality, and release frequency
• Experienced with NodeJS, Java, C# and other programming languages

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