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About Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, processing transactions between financial institutions and merchants using its extensive network of credit, debit, and prepaid card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services
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Listed pay typically runs
$122,000–$207,000
across 142 roles with salary data.
The Principal Engineer (Architecture) joins the MDES team to lead the architecture and design of MDES services, specifically defining regional distribution and localization designs. This role involves leading platform and solution architecture to address non-functional requirements, developing critical components, creating proof of concepts, and conducting code reviews. The individual will mentor team members, manage SCM operations, and study emerging technologies to improve existing solutions. Key technical requirements include expertise in core Java, Spring Boot, Spring, SQL, Oracle, PostGRES, Cassandra, Kafka, Zookeeper, and web services using JSON and SOAP. Candidates must have experience with microservices on public clouds like AWS, Google, or Azure, alongside tools like Maven, GIT, and UML. The work focuses on building highly scalable, highly available enterprise-grade payment applications within the payments domain.
What does a Engineer earn?
Median $178175 from 251 postings across 54 companies.
Lead platform and solution architecture design to address all non-functional requirements.
Define regional distribution and localization designs for MDES services.
Develop critical components and create proof of concepts for new use cases.
Conduct code reviews and ensure overall code quality for the engineering team.
Coach and mentor less experienced team members on technical tasks and best practices.
Write and review technical design documentation for the development team.
Perform SCM operations including branching, merging, tagging, and conflict resolution.
Study upcoming technologies to identify improvements for existing solutions.
What we're looking for
Experience technically leading at least one scrum team in refining features, low-level design, code reviews, and mentoring.
Expert knowledge of core Java, Spring Boot, Spring (MVC, IOC, AOP, Security), SQL, RDBMS (Oracle and PostGRES), NoSQL (Cassandra), Kafka, and Zookeeper.
Hands-on experience developing and deploying microservice applications on public clouds like Google, AWS, or Azure.
Experience with web services (JSON and SOAP), Junit test cases, Maven/Ant/Gradle, and GIT.
Proficiency with IDEs (IntelliJ/Eclipse) and UML tools (MS Visio, PlantUML).
Knowledge of Design Patterns and security concepts like authentication, authorization, and confidentiality.
Experience working with Agile methodologies.
Experience in the Payments application domain (preferred); experience with Mockito, JBehave, Jenkins, Bamboo, Confluence, and Rally (preferred).