Lead Software Engineer

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

Lead Software Engineer

Overview

The Mastercard Builders’ Enablement Program has an exciting opportunity for a Lead Software Engineer.

Our services enable Mastercard engineering teams to focus on delivering business value from ideation to market. The ideal candidate will help Mastercard developers efficiently build, test, and deliver secure, quality code.

Role

This role involves working with a team of talented developers to develop high performance, high volume solutions. You will be responsible for:

• Designing and implementing Java-based capabilities for the Program.
• Develop high-quality, secure, scalable and maintainable software solutions.
• Apply best practices for automated testing, automated code quality, automated delivery & automated monitoring.
• Mentor the senior & junior engineers on your team through sound technical advice, UML documentation & code reviews
• Collaborate with Architects, Leads, Developers & Product Owners to ensure business value is delivered in a timely manner
• Advocating Mastercard Engineering Principles, Builders’ Enablement development standards, and Corporate Security guidelines
• Act as SME (Subject Matter Expert) for one or more initiatives to deliver an efficient and secure SDLC in Mastercard from the initial ideation to production deployment
• Work as part of a cross-functional and geographically distributed team to make our developer experience awesome
• Ensure that Developer Experience is central to everything we do
• Ensure that the team adheres to Mastercard Engineering Principles, Builders Enablement Development standards, and Corporate Security guidelines
• Actively participate as a member of the Software Engineering Guild sharing your knowledge, best practices, ideas, and passion for technology

Skills
• Proficiency in OOP/OOAD with Java JDK 8 or higher
• Knowledge of Tomcat, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate, REST microservices architecture.
• Experience with SQL, Multi-threading, Message Queuing & Distributed Systems
• Experience with Design Patterns and Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Experience with one or more Cloud platforms with a good working knowledge of availability zones, regions, security, Cloud APIs, virtual networking, and the capabilities and offerings of the various providers (e.g., Azure, AWS, and GCP)
• Expertise in Junit or other automated unit testing frameworks
• Knowledge of Splunk or other alerting and monitoring solutions
• Fluent in the use of Git, Jenkins
• Ability to define & implement best practices regarding Continuous Delivery / Deployment pipelines.
• Good working knowledge of container technologies
• Experience working in a regulated environment with secure software development practices (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR)
• Experience in performance testing with JMeter, Gatling and similar tools
• Experience with building upon and contributing to innersource projects (e.g. CI/CD, Shared libraries, reusable automation & monitoring)
• Experience automating processes to improve developer efficiency
• Knowledge of Kubernetes is a plus


Other
• Must be self-motivated and a team-player operating in a high performance environment

Education
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Electrical or an equivalent Engineering stream

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.