Principal Software Engineer

Mastercard India Services Pvt Ltd; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard India Services Pvt Ltd is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead high‑impact software platforms for Employee Access Management and identity services. You will guide architecture, oversee delivery, mentor teams, and drive production deployments at scale across global partners.

The role emphasizes hands‑on leadership, collaboration with architects, product managers, and SRE teams, and a track record of solving complex systems challenges in financial infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable, high-performance systems.
• Experience with APIs, event-driven services, batch services, and messaging.
• Proficiency in Java, REST APIs, microservices, Kafka, MQ, Spring Boot, Node.js and React.js.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, enterprise-wide initiatives across services and programs.
• Define requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards and best practices.
• Deliver software solutions and drive timely milestones across global tech domains.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners and engineers to design innovative products.

Skills

High-performance systems

Architectural patterns

Programming – Java

Microservices

Kafka & Messaging

Cloud & DevOps

Database expertise

CI/CD tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS

Advanced Software Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Azure

AWS

Spring Boot

Node.js

React.js

Kafka

Job description

Principal Software Engineer

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

Overview

• Customer Connectivity is a global Mastercard team that designs, builds and supports service platforms that provide Identity and certificate management functions utilized by global Mastercard application teams.
• As a Principal Software Engineer for Employee Access Management, you serve as a technical authority, providing comprehensive leadership and guiding critical decisions across our program and its technology and product partners. You act as a pathfinder, collaborating across organizational boundaries with architects, product managers, analysts, managers, and engineers to develop creative solutions for evolving our growing platform. As an enabler, you take a hands‑on approach—experimenting, building, and mentoring engineering teams to successfully implement and deliver these solutions into production.

Role

• Acts as a technical team leader and individual contributor, devoting a substantial portion of their time to hands‑on work. Recognized as a subject matter expert and authority in their field, they promote innovation and propel organizational growth through their impactful contributions
• Lead complex, enterprise‑wide initiatives that span multiple services and programs, collaborating with business and product owners, engineers, and architects to design and implement new services that enable the introduction of innovative products and bundles
• Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions
• Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
• Set priorities, objectives, and drive deliverables within global technology domains and sub‑domains and engage with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation and evaluate new solutions for future business platform system requirements.
• Leverages input of partners and personal experience to make thoughtful decisions on technical direction
• Explain technical issues and solution strategies to stakeholders, ensure timely accomplishment of technical designs and delivery milestones and liaise with stakeholders to understand business needs

All About You

• You’ve built your career designing and developing high-performance, globally scalable platforms and key
• Early in your career, you earned a reputation for solving the toughest problems others couldn’t crack. As your career advanced, so did the complexity of the challenges you tackled. While you still enjoy rolling up your sleeves, you now thrive on collaborating with others to address monumental challenges that no one can solve alone.
• Designing and crafting exceptional software is one of your greatest passions, but you understand that it’s only part of the equation. You value collaborating with SRE, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to ensure architectures are robust, systems are finely tuned, and your teams’ code is optimized for its environment.
• Aware that your software serves as critical financial infrastructure for multiple nation‑states, you balance hands‑on leadership with a focus on ensuring SDLC and governance processes are both effective and responsible.
• Your intelligence and diligence are evident not because you talk about them but because you lead by example. Whether fostering inclusive ideation sessions where every voice is respected or staying in the trenches during production crises to resolve last‑minute issues, you set a personal standard that defines the team’s culture.

Proficiencies

• Profound experience developing scalable, high performing systems.
• Design and Architecture patterns – APIs, event-driven-services, batch-services, messaging systems
• Programming – Java, REST API, Microservices, Kafka, MQ, and Spring boot, Node Js, React Js
• Cloud and DevOps Architecture – Kubernetes, Docker, Chef, Azure, AWS
• Databases – PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL
• Tools – Eclipse or IntelliJ, Sonar, GIT, Maven, SQL Developer, Jenkins, CI/CD

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.

Experience Level

Senior Level