Principal Engineer (Architecture)

Mastercard•O'fallon, MO

3d•$170,000 - $281,000•Onsite

About The Position

The MDES team is looking for a Technical Architect (Principal, Software Development Engineer) who can lead Architecture and Design of MDES Services and define regional distribution / localization design for MDES. The ideal candidate is the one who is passionate about leading software development, driving engineering practices & technically mentoring team members for a highly scalable, highly available enterprise grade payment application.

Requirements

Experience of technically leading at least one scrum team in terms of assisting Product Manager in refining the features and stories, doing low level design, doing code review, troubleshooting team’s issues, guiding & mentoring team members
Hands on experience and expert on working with core Java, Spring Boot, Spring (MVC, IOC, AOP, Security), SQL, RDBMS (Oracle and PostGRES), NoSQL (Cassandra), Web-services (JSON and SOAP), Kafka, Zookeeper
Hands on experience of developing microservice application & deploying them on any one of the public cloud like Google, AWS, Azure
Hands on experience of using Intellij/Eclipse/My Eclipse IDE, UML tools (MS Visio, PlantUML)
Hands on experience of writing Junit test cases, working with Maven/Ant/Gradle, GIT
Experience of working with Agile methodologies.
Personal attributes are strong logical and Analytical Skills, design skills, should be able to articulate and present his/her thoughts very clearly and precisely in English (written and verbal)
Knowledge of Design Patterns
Knowledge of Security concepts (E.g. authentication, authorization, confidentiality etc.) and protocols, their usage in enterprise application

Nice To Haves

Experience of working in Payments application Domain
Hands on experience of working with tools like Mockito, Jbehave, Jenkins, Bamboo, Confluence, Rally

Responsibilities

Lead platform / solution architecture design addressing all non-functional requirements
Work closely with Product Management and Engineering Team to come up high level design
Develop critical components whenever required and create proof of concepts for new/unknown use cases/ideas
Conduct code reviews, is responsible for overall code quality, Coach and mentor less experienced team members
Write and review Design Documentation whenever required
Do SCM Operations – branching, merging, tagging, conflict resolution
Study upcoming technologies and identify how they can be used to improve existing solution
Comply with organizations processes. Policies and protects organization’s Intellectual property. Also, participate in organization level process improvement and knowledge sharing

Benefits

insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
flexible spending account and health savings account
16 weeks of new parent leave
up to 20 days of bereavement leave
80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
25 days of vacation time
5 personal days
10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
401k with a best-in-class company match
deferred compensation for eligible roles
fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
eligibility for tuition reimbursement