Lead Software Engineer (Java - Backend)

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 (Java - Backend)

Who is Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible.
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.

Overview:
The Customer connect team was created to establish Mastercard as the frontrunner in the fast-evolving real-time payments space, and to position MasterCard to be able to incubate the development of new payment flows.
The team is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard’s next generation payment applications – Domestic, Cross Border and Bill Payments.

Mastercard seeks to define a world beyond cash. To accelerate this mission, we are committed to building & scaling products & applications that transform payments of any type. Real time payment technology is central to this strategy. We are looking for a lead software engineer to implement large scale distributed systems based on reactive architectures.

• Do you like to be part of a team that creates and executes strategic initiatives centered around digital payments?
• Do you look forward to developing and engaging with high performant diverse teams around the globe?
• Would you like to be part of a highly visible, strategically important global engineering organization?

The Role:
What’s it all about and what we expect you to do day to day
• Design and implement highly resilient large scale distributed systems using event driven architectures
• Write code to build and enhance applications/services, conduct code-reviews, and other standard development practices to deliver high-quality artifacts to production.
• Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs through working with product partners
• Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development
• Introduce new technologies and architectures aligning to enterprise guidelines by conducting POCs
• Provide coding and design guidance to junior team members
• Own complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution
• Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements
• Participate and contribute to team’s agile process and decisions. Understand and contribute to Prioritization. Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners
• Build relationships and effective partnerships across organizations

All About You and What you need to bring:
• Excellent programming skills( OOP, SOLID, 12-factor) - java preferred
• Experience with distributed systems architecture and implementation
• Familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management
• Experience with broker technologies kafka/NATS is a plus
• Experience in Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization
• Infrastructure as code and cloud first software development knowledge experience preferred.
• Has skills in test driven and behavior driven development (TDD and BDD) to build just enough code and collaborate on the desired functionality.
• Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading, all from the gang of four) to implement efficient code
• Has skills to elaborate and estimate non-functional requirements, including security (e.g., data protection, authentication, authorization), regulatory, and performance (SLAs, throughput, transactions per second)
• Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors

Mastercard is an inclusive equal 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. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment 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

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.