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

Lead Software Development Engineer
All About Us
MasterCard is a technology company in the global payments business. We connect consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses worldwide and enable them to use secure and convenient electronic forms of payment.

Join the industry’s most passionate, motivated & engaged global team - Our employees are encouraged to drive innovation every day in support of a more connected world – A World Beyond Cash.



Overview
• Do you believe that timely delivery and supporting directs can peacefully co-exist?
• Are you a self-motivated critical thinker who cultivates innovative ideas?
• Want to feel your spine tingle by thwarting credit card fraudsters across the globe?

The Transaction Resilience team develops new products for Mastercard's Cyber & Intelligence organization. We protect the payment network ecosystem and aim to deny credit card scammers. Our industry-leading applications scrutinize billions of transactions per month, bolstering the ecosystem and defending cardholders from fraud attacks every second of every day. The Manager position will play a critical role in the coordination of new product functionality within this product portfolio including world-class backend and consumer-facing features.

Roles/Responsibilities –
• Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions
• Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
• Ensure quality of one or more application codebases and alignment with development standards
• Applies technical capabilities within own discipline to coach and develop junior employees
• Designs highly complex applications, interfaces and integration with a modest number of systems
• Integrates at an enterprise level using third-party middleware or messaging products, or by designing and implementing custom interfaces and mapping for those interfaces
• Responsible for performance engineering of the enterprise software architecture, and providing functional guidance, advice, and/or training to other application developers
• Modest advanced code development, code review and day-to-day support duties
• Group-wide and external public speaking and other communications conveying domain level directions
• Researching and evaluating tools to support domain-specific needs
• Technically coach team members to ensure optimal quality, performance and security parameters.
• Assist with production support issues by acting as a subject matter expert in resolving incidents and problem tickets.

All About You:
• Full Stack lead including experience in requirements gathering and relationship building with business clients
• Deep knowledge of software development processes including agile processes
• Deep knowledge - React/Java/Microservices/spring boot/Kafka
• Experience with the design and development of complex, multi-tier software solutions
• Database experience including Oracle /Postgres and advanced SQL scripting
• Experience integrating vendor and open source products into an overall system
• Ability to coordinate, interact with, and lead cross departmental teams.
• Experience in planning work and leading a small group of developers
• Ability to make decisions without all information.
• Ability to white-board solutions during discussions, and develop decision trees, flow charts and simple wireframes to prove a concept (Visio, PPT, DOC)
• Preferably professional experience in financial services, cards, payments or another related field
• Able to mentor peers and guide less experienced Team members
• IT experience including requirements gathering and relationship building with business clients
• Able to lead project teams, collaborate with business partners, vendor/ consulting organizations and peer level professionals from other IT disciplines

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.