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# Principal Software Engineer

- **Company:** Mastercard
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Salary:** $204,000.0 - $337,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cyber Security, Software Engineering
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5567a35e0ad4feab

## About the Role

* Must have extensive experience in designing and developing consumer facing eCommerce and Mobile Commerce products and solutions.

 * Effectively deal with difficult situations. Help develop solutions to complex problems.

 * Ability to translate highly complex technical matters into easily digestible and actionable plans.

 * Requires the ability to influence business and technology partners and individual contributors.

 * Must have the ability to foster open communications across various organizational levels.

 * Requires skills to motivate teams to deliver superior results.

 * Requires the skills to provide functional and directional guidance to staff and recommend policy or strategic direction changes to management.

 * Requires the ability to interact across multiple organizational levels and assume a lead role and set direction for large or complex projects.

 * Strong leadership, interpersonal, relationship-building and negotiation skills required with a solid track record for developing internal and external relationships.

 * Provide measurable input into new products, processes, standards or plans in support of the business.

Education:

 * Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.

## Description

* Working with Business Partners, design our technology products and applications to meet MasterCard's business objectives.

 * Develop and own the technology road-map for our eCommerce and Mobile Commerce products

 * Coordinate the technical road-mapping process ensuring alignment with business objectives, enterprise architecture plans, and technology delivery

 * Ensure business requirements are of sufficient quality and detail to ensure the road-map can be transitioned to development release plans.

 * Provide thought leadership in eCommerce and Mobile Commerce, an advisor to our business partners.

 * Ensure communications are timely and transparent between business teams and technology teams, across the globe.

 * Single point of contact for new software development request, requests for product evaluation, sizing of new requirements, etc., All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
 * Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
 * Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
 * Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
 * Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.