Principal Software Engineer - Architecture

Mastercard; Ireland; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Architecture) to lead architecture for a global virtual card platform. You will drive strategy, mentor teams, and collaborate with product management to deliver secure, scalable software solutions at scale.

The role emphasizes engineering excellence, collaboration across regions, and delivering impactful outcomes for Corporate Solutions customers.

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering background with full stack capability.
• Experience with designing scalable, high-throughput systems.
• Strong knowledge of Java and Spring framework.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for a global virtual card platform.
• Align architecture with business goals and guide delivery.
• Mentor teams and drive engineering excellence.
• Drive PoC and pilot projects for new capabilities.
• Ensure solutions are secure by design and compliant.

Skills

Software Engineer

Full Stack

Design Patterns

Programming Languages

Java

Spring

Cloud Platforms

Containers

PKI

Security by Design

Tools

Public Cloud

Kubernetes

Job description

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 - Architecture

Who is Mastercard?

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

The Virtual Card Management team are seeking a visionary and results-driven Principal Software Engineer (Architecture) to lead architecture for a service group in our critical virtual card platform for Corporate Solutions. This role is pivotal in driving engineering excellence, scaling delivery capabilities, and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. You will be responsible for aligning architecture and engineering strategy with business goals, mentoring high-performing teams, and ensuring the successful delivery of complex software solutions. The Virtual Card Management group is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard's next-generation virtual card management platform.

In this role, you will design and build software that scales to global markets, enabling secure, seamless, always available virtual card platform. This is an exciting engineering leadership role working with a global team passionate about the solutions we deliver to our customers.

Role

In this role, you will drive collaboration across engineering, product management, enterprise functions, and regional business teams. You will also lead by defining the technical strategy, architecture, design, and execution to iteratively achieve outcomes.

As a principal software engineer, you will:

• Drive business outcomes with theright technology solutions
• Lead the architecture & design of software systems and applications.
• Collaborate with product teams to understand the requirements, identify solutions, and provide technical thought leadership.
• Have experience implementing Domain Driven Design methodology.
• Ensure solutionsmeet corporate security standards and adhere to operability principles.
• Drive a culture of engineering excellence
• Leading software development projects, especially at an early stage (PoC, Pilot).
• You have working experience across a variety of languages and frameworks.
• You love declarative paradigm and functional programming. You focus on continuous improvement.
• Your solutions are secure by design.
• You build great relationships with technical peers across your organization

Skills

• Broad experience as a Software Engineer / Full Stack Developer.
• Hands on experience implementing design patterns and using multiple programming languages.
• Experience building and operating scalable global platforms with highthroughput with 5 9's availability.
• In depth knowledge of Java,Spring framework, persistenceand messaging technologies, and testing methodologies and tools.
• In depth knowledge of Public Cloud platforms, containersand container orchestration.
• Good workingknowledge of cryptography functions and PKI infrastructure.

All About You

• Hands-on technical leader who consistently demonstratesleadership,builds trust, focuses on talent development and inspires the team.
• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented and proactive with the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment.
• 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.
• Have strong decision-making skills, lead retrospection and continually improve as a result.
• Must have expert level knowledge of software development processes and be an experienced user of one or more Application Lifecycle Management tools.

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.

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.