Overview
Mastercard’s Network & Digital Payments group creates meaningful experiences for consumers while enabling merchants and issuers to engage in ways not possible in the pre-digital world.
The Global Product Engineering team builds foundational payment solutions at scale. This role offers an prospect to work in a high-impact environment focused on delivering secure, convenient, and controlled digital payment experiences.
We are looking for leaders who:
• Have experience building and scaling global products
• Are passionate about driving a world beyond cash
• Thrive in agile environments with high standards of engineering excellence
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

• Own architecture across APIs, microservices, data, and integration patterns to deliver scalable, resilient, high-performance systems




• Drive end-to-end design and implementation of critical services, staying hands-on in complex and high-risk areas
• Lead key decisions across performance, scalability, reliability, security, and observability
• Balance long-term architecture vision with practical delivery needs, platform stability, and business priorities
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and architects to align roadmaps, transition states, and delivery sequencing
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, guidance, and hands-on support to engineering teams
• Ensure solutions are cohesive, supportable, and aligned with enterprise standards and governance
• Contribute to architecture governance, reviews, and documentation to drive clarity and execution alignment
• Drive engineering excellence and modern practices (DDD, event-driven design, secure-by-design)
• Lead early-stage initiatives (PoCs, pilots) and accelerate speed to market and platform evolu

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Mastercard
📍 Pune