Senior Software Engineer

at  MasterCard

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.
Title and Summary
Senior Software Engineer
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
The Account Management Services team develops new capabilities for Mastercard’s fraud prevention platform. We protect cardholders / card issuers and aim to eradicate credit card fraud. Our industry-leading platform processes billions of transactions per month. To enable us to uphold the high standard of these applications we are looking for out-of-the-box thinkers to play a critical role in the upkeep and continual health of these products.

The Senior Software Engineer role will ensure these products continue to meet the high expectations from our customers by notably improving existing functionality, updating stale or outdated functions, proactively adding scalability while continuing to add enhanced value to these products.

• Would you like to work on a team that is building industry leading solutions for fighting fraud?
• Do you want to learn cutting edge technologies and help solve complex business problems?
• Do you have creative problem-solving techniques?
• Are you motivated to be a part of an organisation that is driving a world beyond cash?

Role:

• Work with a team of talented engineers to develop high performance, high volume Java applications.
• Deliver solutions by providing direct development of software solutions.
• Work closely with technical leads, business & system analysts to define features and user stories.
• Assistance with production support issues by acting as point-of-contact and subject matter expert in resolving incidents and problem tickets.
• Manage medium-sized project/initiatives as an individual contributor with advanced knowledge within discipline, leading a segment of several initiatives or a larger initiative, or may formally supervise a small team, and assigns day-to-day work
• Design and develop applications, system to system interfaces and complete software solutions, performs vendor-related activities, and creates documentation such as user guides and software development guides
• Assist in vendor assessment and evaluates and recommends software development tools
• Oversee and provides technical support to junior team members
• Work closely with technical leads to define features and user stories
• Possess the aptitude to quickly learn and contribute to our complex platform
• Code development, code review and modest day-to-day support duties

All About You

• Considerate, polite, fun-loving, collaborative (cf. “Bob Sutton, 2007”).
• Strong Java experience design and architecture exposure
• Deep knowledge of software development processes including SAFe/Agile processes
• Web Services exposure (REST/SOAP)
• A wide breadth and depth of technical experience including Tomcat, shell scripting, JSON, multi-threading, Maven, Linux, SQL, Pivotal, Kafka and Spring framework tech stack
• Expertise with Eclipse or IntelliJ and ability to compile, deploy and execute code artifacts
• Understanding of secure coding best practices
• Experience integrating vendor and open source products into an overall system
• Experience with cloud software development (PCF, Azure)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Requirements Assessment
• Familiarity with enterprise frameworks (Spring/JEE)
• Testing frameworks
• Relational database experience (Oracle)
• Understanding of AGILE development practices
• Expertise with Eclipse or IntelliJ and ability to compile, deploy, and execute code artifacts

Knowledge of emerging trends in technology
Corporate Security Responsibility

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.

The Senior Software Engineer role will ensure these products continue to meet the high expectations from our customers by notably improving existing functionality, updating stale or outdated functions, proactively adding scalability while continuing to add enhanced value to these products.

• Would you like to work on a team that is building industry leading solutions for fighting fraud?
• Do you want to learn cutting edge technologies and help solve complex business problems?
• Do you have creative problem-solving techniques?
• Are you motivated to be a part of an organisation that is driving a world beyond cash

Role:

• Work with a team of talented engineers to develop high performance, high volume Java applications.
• Deliver solutions by providing direct development of software solutions.
• Work closely with technical leads, business & system analysts to define features and user stories.
• Assistance with production support issues by acting as point-of-contact and subject matter expert in resolving incidents and problem tickets.
• Manage medium-sized project/initiatives as an individual contributor with advanced knowledge within discipline, leading a segment of several initiatives or a larger initiative, or may formally supervise a small team, and assigns day-to-day work
• Design and develop applications, system to system interfaces and complete software solutions, performs vendor-related activities, and creates documentation such as user guides and software development guides
• Assist in vendor assessment and evaluates and recommends software development tools
• Oversee and provides technical support to junior team members
• Work closely with technical leads to define features and user stories
• Possess the aptitude to quickly learn and contribute to our complex platform
• Code development, code review and modest day-to-day support dutie

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