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Principal Software Engineer at Mastercard

Department: Engineering

Location
Nairobi, Nairobi County
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Mastercard is hiring a Principal Software Engineer for its Foundry Research and Development team in Nairobi. The role focuses on architecting and building large-scale, AI-native software platforms and customer-facing applications, with responsibilities spanning solution architecture, technical leadership, data-platform architecture, AI system scaling, responsible AI practices, and coaching engineering teams. Candidates should have extensive enterprise-scale engineering experience, hands-on experience with generative AI, LLMs, or agentic patterns, expertise in modern AI frameworks and cloud platforms, and proficiency with Java, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, Postgres, and related technologies.

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