Lead Software Engineer - Mobile iOS

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 - Mobile iOS

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.

Overview:
Background

As part of an exciting, fast paced environment developing payment authentication and security solutions, this position will provide technical leadership and expertise within the development lifecycle for ecommerce payment authentication platform.

The Mastercard Authentication Program owns how consumer authentication works for both in-store and e-commerce transactional use cases. The primary purpose of this role is to develop and deliver best-of-breed authentication products for e-commerce transactional use cases that will drive uptake and penetration for the products and revenue for Mastercard. The authentication products that fall within this role’s responsibilities are ID Check, Token Authentication Service and Token Authentication Framework.

Role
All staff at Mastercard are expected to demonstrate 'Mastercard Way' cultural values every day - own it, simplify it, sense of urgency, thoughtful risk-taking, unlock potential, and be inclusive – with a relentless focus on our customers. As a Software Development Engineer II at Mastercard, you are expected to perform the following general duties:


• Architect, Design and build advanced applications for the iOS platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Work on feature development, defect fixes and improving application performance.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Design and build libraries/frameworks/applications for the iOS platform
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Supporting the entire application lifecycle from concept to design, testing, release, and support
• Writing clean and efficient codes for iOS applications
• Work with Agile methodologies


All About You

• Bachelors/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Proven working experience in secure software development
• Working experience in iOS development
• Possesses iOS app/SDK deployment complete understanding
• Knowledge of iOS architecture.
• A deep familiarity with Objective-C/Swift and Cocoa Touch
• Proficiency in security models, encryption standards and algorithms
• Experience working with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, UIKit, Core Foundation
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• SOLID understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
• Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards
• Understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines
• Knowledge of low-level C-based libraries is preferred
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git, Bitbucket
• Experience with continuous integration.
• You are a problem solver with good analytical skills
• You have a portfolio of released applications on the App Store
• Soft spoken, team player and should be good in communication skills and negotiations.


Our teams and values:
- We work within small collaborative teams consisting of software engineers and product managers;
- Our customer’s success is at the core of what we do;
- We are diverse and inclusive teams from many backgrounds and with many experiences;
- We believe in doing well by doing good through inclusive growth and making ethical and environmentally responsible decisions.

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.

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.