Principal Software Engineer
Mastercard2 days ago
Nairobi, KenyaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design highly scalable architectures for complex early-stage product concepts across technology stacks, data platforms, and environments.
- Lead the architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and release of complex applications, interfaces, and integrations.
- Drive adoption and innovation of AI in solution architecture and software engineering throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Lead the technical strategy and implementation of data platforms within Foundry R&D.
- Scale AI systems through observability, evaluation, and cost optimization.
- Establish responsible AI practices covering compliance, explainability, and data privacy.
- Coach teams on technical best practices and the use of AI across the product development lifecycle.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience architecting and building zero-to-one applications using generative AI, LLMs, or agentic patterns.
- Expertise leading the architecture, design, implementation, and release of complex products and applications.
- Extensive experience in senior engineering roles in enterprise-scale environments.
- Experience with modern AI frameworks and SDKs such as LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, or Codex SDK.
- Expertise with cloud and data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, and Azure.
- Knowledge of AI/ML, data analytics, and data product development, including data quality, privacy, and localization.
- Proficiency with Java, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, object-oriented languages, front-end frameworks, and database technologies.
- Strong business acumen, communication, collaboration, product mindset, and technical mentoring ability.
- Regular use of AI in daily engineering practice.
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About Mastercard
Mastercard builds and operates a global payments network used by banks, merchants, fintechs, and governments, offering card processing, real-time payments, tokenization, and fraud/risk services. It generates revenue from transaction processing and assessment/service fees across more than 200 countries and territories. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Purchase, New York, Mastercard is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: MA).