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Company

Original Job Post

Mastercard · 6 days ago

Principal Software Engineer

Arlington, VA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

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Responsibilities

Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drives resolution.

Work with business/product owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles.

Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies.

Take ownership to improve the customer experience of an entire set of user experiences sold as products.

Contribute and lead Guild initiatives by engaging and mentoring Engineers at all levels to improve the craftmanship of Software Engineering

Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/experience/architecture strategy.

Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests.

Venture beyond comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of Software Engineering

Take on organization-wide and public speaking engagements and publishes white papers and blogs on relevant and emerging technical topics.

Consult across teams and across organization lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities.

Participate and contribute to Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs.

Write recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one's accomplishments.

Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar.

Identify and raise awareness to Silo-ed behaviors within the organization and teams.

Qualification

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Technical LeadershipGlobal Projects DeliverySecure Coding StandardsVulnerability ManagementBrowser CompatibilityReference ArchitectureFull Stack DevelopmentSoftware PlanningEstimationTrade-off DiscussionsAutomationDevOps Best PracticesPerformance EngineeringSDLC MethodologiesCloud Environments AnalysisArchitecture ArticulationChaos TestingOperational TestingUI FrameworksWeb DevelopmentAccessibility ComplianceResponsive DesignProblem-SolvingLeadershipCommunicationCoaching

Required

Has experience providing technical leadership and delivering global projects across multiple locations and functions.

Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages, secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management.

Understands nuances between browsers (Edge, Chrome, Safari, mobile) to write interoperable and performant code.

Has skills to develop and evangelize on reference architecture and run principles to help teams adopt Engineering Principles from the start.

Has skills to promote and coach teams on take on full stack development and facilitate end-to-end system ownership.

Has skills to engage engineers across Technology organization to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services.

Has experience in leading and coaching teams to perform software planning and estimation for large scale complex programs.

Has skills to drive trade-off discussions to set right development capacity based on value drivers (e.g., regulatory, security, new business, market parity, technical debt)

Has experience in design and execution of automation across multiple business areas and provides guidance on best methods and tools.

Has an expert understanding of DevOps best practices to guide developers and abstract application development from underlying hosting platforms and infrastructure.

Performance engineering experience to ensure applications are built to scale, run, and perform when used over networks with various quality of service aspects.

Has skills to evaluate practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize SDLC methodologies and automate processes to improve lead time and quality.

Has skills to perform architecture and cost analysis for internal, hybrid, and public cloud environments.

Has skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders.

Has skills to define and drive advanced chaos and other operational testing practices to test points of failures, monitors, and system behaviors under adverse conditions (e.g., resource spikes, network congestion, component, or infrastructure failure)

Has skills to implement advanced test set ups in production environment (e.g., A/B testing, canary releases, blue-green deployment, feature flags)

Has experience across a broad set of UI frameworks (EG, React, and Angular) and integration between those tools.

Has experience delivering multi-tenant, multi-lingual, white-labeled web applications.

Has experience developing web applications with accessibility and re-use in mind, which are compliant with WCAG.

Has experience with Responsive Design