Principal Software Engineer - Java, Edge, Security models, TLS certificate

Job Description: Principal Software Engineer

The position has a unique opportunity to drive Mastercard's API Edge design, including security models, routing, traffic control, API management and other related work.

Responsible for overall architecture of Mastercard's API Gateway. Leading, programming, testing, implementation, documentation, maintenance and support of Mastercards API Gateway in adherence with Mastercard standards, processes and best practices.

Work with engineers, product managers, designers, and partner teams to deliver a set of features with the right overall design and architecture.

Develop high quality, secure, scalable software solutions based on technical requirements specifications and design artifacts within expected time and budget.

Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives in open source for the business needs.

Follow standards in development and testing to ensure compliance with Audit and Regulatory Requirements. Adhere to Mastercard security standards, change management and quality controls, enabling automations where required.

Support collection and reporting of project and software metrics that help billing and capacity planning.

Provide mentorship and coaching to engineers in, and beyond, your team.

Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency by optimizations and automations.

Role

Essential responsibilities of the position:

Architecture and design of software solutions

Technical solution & application architecture & design

Development, review & ownership of architecture & design artifacts (SAD, API Specification etc.)

Actively find ways (new technologies, tools, frameworks) to improve software solutions

Work with Product Management and Engineering to translate product use cases and requirements to industry-leading design, architecture and implementations. Set architectural direction by grooming and prioritizing architectural stories related to baselining software stack, realization of non-functional requirement etc. and critical domain stories. Influence the product owner to balance the business and technical priorities and the value of the architecture work.

Execute and own the baseline architecture implementations and design activities collaborating with Sr. Engineer & Engineering Team.

Regularly communicate with management about risk analysis and design tradeoffs.

Strong communication skills, with an ability to express and design ideas to a development team

Skills

Understanding of Nginx or Nginx+ configurations is highly desirable.

Understanding of TLS/SSL certificates, trust store and Certificate Authority is highly desirable

Experience with management of applications deployed across the multiple geographic locations

Experience in popular security Models, including OAuth1.0a, OAuth2.0 and Mutual TLS.

Web services & API management experience

Software development, design & architecture experience in enterprise grade software solutions.

Programming & Scripting Languages (2 or more of Java, Groovy, C, JavaScript, Python, lua or Shell)

Ability to operate effectively independently

Strong communication skill (Written and Oral)

Bachelor engineering or technology in Computer Science, Engineering or IT required. Masters degree in related discipline preferred