Company

MasterCard

Description

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Job Title

Lead Software Engineer

Overview

The Network Services team is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to lead the development and delivery of software solutions within an agile scrum team. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical expert in Java design and development, has experience working on agile teams, demonstrates strong leadership skills, and knows how to build secure software.

Role

Responsible for leading the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions with an emphasis on cloud native microservices.
Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
Engages with development team, product management, and scrum masters to deliver secure solutions that delight our customers.
Leads team in establishing working agreements, best practices, and coding standards.
Writes code to build and enhance applications/services and promote code-reviews, code scanning, and other standard development practices to deliver high-quality artifacts to production.
Defines, designs, and develops procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements
Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners
Identify opportunities and build roadmaps to address technical debt.
Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development, actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed.
Drive seamless integration across all connected services to meet end-user expectations
Drive blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings
Introduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines
Advocate for engineering principles outside of current organization/platform
Provide development and architecture guidance to team members
Build relationships and effective partnerships across organizations
Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar
Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence.
Encourage staff to share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity
Reviews code across applications and their dependencies to look for anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring.
Understands and elaborates technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritization discussions with stakeholders to improve the run experience.
Understands system architecture to plan for platform and infrastructure capacity (e.g., database, compute, network, storage) and drives the dependency prioritization to reduce the delivery lead time.
Understands the customer journeys and ensures a Mastercard good experience by continuously reducing mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for incidents and ensuring high availability (99.95% as a starting point).
Simplifies deployment and eliminates software and infrastructure snowflakes using standardized platforms, ephemeral instances, and automation.
Orchestrates release workflows and pipelines and applies standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment using industry-standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, AWS/Azure pipelines, XL Release, others)
Configures rules and build automation for code with vulnerability scanning and software composition analysis using standard tools (e.g., Sonar, Checkmarx, Nexus, JFrog XRay, Veracode, others).
Has skills to define, organize, and report on test runs for major, minor, and hotfix releases (including unit, component level, system level, customer journeys, past customer issues, and regulatory controls).
Has skills to conduct various performance tests (e.g., load, spike, breakpoint, endurance) to understand application/service limits and behaviors.

All About You

BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
Extensive software engineering experience.
Experience delivering secure solutions in the Financial Services Sector is preferred.
Experienced with Java, Spring Boot, Rest APIs, and event driven architecture.
Experienced with relational databases such as Oracle or Postgres.
Experience with NoSQL databases is a plus.
Experienced with CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling such as Jenkins.
Experienced developing cloud native applications.
Experience with UI development using frameworks such as Angular is a plus.
Experience with event streaming platforms such as Kafka.
Knowledgeable about Test Driven Development, Unit Testing, and test automation.
Able to perform debugging, troubleshooting and remove coding errors by analyzing core, heap, and thread dumps.
Understands use cases for advanced design patterns.
Leads by example with a hands-on approach.
A continuous learner.

In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

Responsibilities

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.

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