Lead Software Engineer (Java)

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Lead Software Engineer (Java)

Who is Mastercard?
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.

Overview

Supporting the Mastercard Cyber and Security Services program members of this team have an opportunity to build new and extend current fraud prevention services. This exciting area within Mastercard is growing fast and creating cutting edge technologies that prevent fraud across the globe.
This is an agile team that will be balanced across full stack engineering and data engineering. The team will also provide leadership for other teams in using strong architecture and technology delivery practices that create the best solutions.
The Senior Software Development Engineer will play a critical role in creating new products and new functionality.

Role
• Provide detailed designs and solutions to complex business problems. Educate team members on the path forward to solving the problem.
• Provide detailed technical analysis of product or application hardware and software to ensure that business and functional requirements can be met
• Provide subject matter expertise for assigned project
• Perform analysis of system requirements, elaborate into user stories and acceptance criteria in an Agile methodology format
• Automate build, operate, and run aspects of software.
• Drive integration of services focusing on customer journey and experience
• Hunger for Systems and Technical knowledge – constantly analyzing and innovating new, better approaches to our systems
• Perform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product Owners.
• Drive adoption of technology standards, review coding, test and automation work of team members
• Provide technical guidance/mentoring to junior team members
• Build and modify applications using a mix of Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL and Spark
• Maintaining thorough unit tests
• Actively work with testers and other engineers to ensure requirements are met and tested from end-to-end

All About You

The ideal candidate would have the following PRIMARY skills:
• Proven experience in technical requirements gathering and documentation
• Advanced in Java development, design patterns, threading, unit testing, debugging and Spring Boot
• Mid-level experience with REST service design and development
• Experience with data analysis
• High-energy, detail-oriented and proactive with the ability to function under pressure in a collaborative (Agile) environment
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation with a willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with strong relationship, collaborative and organization skills
• Strong SQL skills
• Experience with cloud technologies such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• Some experience with Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Impala
• Some experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Angular or React
• Comfortable sharing ideas, asking questions and seeking help through tools like Teams or Slack.


The ideal candidate may also possess some of these SECONDARY skills:
• Experience with high performance, high availability transaction processing systems and multi-tiered web applications
• Security experience
• Experience with queueing technologies such as Kafka

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.