Principal Engineer, Real-time Payments (Technology & Architecture)

Mastercard · Pune, India · Posted Yesterday

About this role

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200 countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Principal Engineer, Real-time Payments (Technology & Architecture) Principal Engineer, Real time Payments (Technology & Architecture) Overview The Real time Payments (RTP) program is driving the global shift toward instant, account to account payments, enabling secure, low latency, and highly resilient payment services across multiple live markets worldwide. RTP platforms operate as mission critical financial infrastructure, supporting high transaction volumes, strict regulatory expectations, and near zero downtime requirements. The program spans multiple products and shared services, deployed across diverse market and customer environments, while adhering to Mastercard’s enterprise architecture, security, and operational standards. Engineering within RTP is focused not only on feature delivery, but on building scalable, resilient platforms that can evolve safely over time—through strong architecture, disciplined engineering practices, and a relentless focus on