Job DescriptionOverview
nMastercard'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.
nThe Global Product Engineering team builds foundational payment solutions at scale. This role offers an opportunity to work in a high-impact setting focused on delivering secure, convenient, and controlled digital payment experiences.
nWe are looking for leaders who:
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- Have experience building and scaling global productsn
- Are passionate about driving a world beyond cashn
- Thrive in agile environments with high standards of engineering excellencen

nRole
nIn 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
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- Own architecture across APIs, microservices, data, and integration patterns to deliver scalable, resilient, high-performance systemsn




- Drive end-to-end design and implementation of critical services, staying hands-on in complex and high-risk areasn
- Lead key decisions across performance, scalability, reliability, security, and observabilityn
- Balance long-term architecture vision with practical delivery needs, platform stability, and business prioritiesn
- Partner closely with product, engineering, and architects to align roadmaps, transition states, and delivery sequencingn
- Provide technical leadership through design reviews, guidance, and hands-on support to engineering teamsn
- Ensure solutions are cohesive, supportable, and aligned with enterprise standards and governancen
- Contribute to architecture governance, reviews, and documentation to drive clarity and execution alignmentn
- Drive engineering excellence and modern practices (DDD, event-driven design, secure-by-design)n
- Lead early-stage initiatives

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Mastercard
📍 Pune