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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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The Principal Software Engineer joins the Small and Medium Enterprises Partnerships and Cashflow division to drive customer experience strategy through innovation. This role involves defining the architectural vision for a worldwide B2B technology platform, designing cloud-native solutions, and developing architectural roadmaps for partnership and Cashflow platforms. You will build highly scalable, secure, and high-performing services to support a diverse customer base while leading architecture reviews and mentoring engineering teams. Key technical requirements include expertise in Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Kafka, and event-driven architectures. You will utilize Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases to manage high-volume transactional systems. The role requires proficiency in React, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript to deliver compliant, mission-critical solutions within the financial services and payments industry.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Georgia?
Median $187100 from 37 postings across 17 companies.
Define and lead the architectural vision for the SME Partnerships platform to deliver secure, cloud-native solutions.
Design and champion modern engineering standards aligned with 12-factor application principles and enterprise security requirements.
Develop and maintain architectural roadmaps, technical blueprints, and service designs for partnership and Cashflow platforms.
Translate business objectives into innovative, compliant, and high-performing technology solutions with product and engineering leaders.
Lead architecture reviews and governance activities to ensure consistency, reliability, and adherence to enterprise design standards.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering and architecture teams to foster a culture of excellence.
Represent the SME Program as a technical leader to advance global-scale cloud and hybrid solutions using AI-driven tools.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, distributed systems, web applications, APIs, and microservices-based architectures.
Proven experience designing and delivering cloud-native solutions using Azure, AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, and containerized platforms.
Demonstrated success building and scaling high-volume transactional systems within financial services, banking, payments, or other mission-critical environments.
Deep expertise developing large-scale backend services using Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Kafka, and modern event-driven architectures.
Proficiency with modern web technologies, including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks such as React.
Extensive experience designing and optimizing data solutions using PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases, and other storage technologies at enterprise scale.
Hands-on experience with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, Git-based development workflows, and modern software delivery practices.
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