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

Role Overview:

As a Software Engineer in Decision Product Enablements at Mastercard, you’ll work with modern back end development practices and tools to create world-class microservices and web applications. We maintain and enhance a world class fraud detection platform and you will be responsible for leading the effort to ensure we are performant, secure and compliant in the Payment services space.
You will work in our Mastercard technology hub, which provides a state-of-the-art environment for technology teams to thrive in our collaborative, Agile engineering culture. You will play a key role in how Mastercard transforms the fraud detection space to standardize, automate, and optimize how we prevent fraud.

The role will require you to:

Lead day to day system development creating solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, quality and fast time to market.
Contribute to the overall strategy and manage complex issues within functional area of expertise.
Develop overall strategic technical plan and create architecture solutions and proposals.
Lead maintenance and Production support activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs)
Deliver code with exceptional quality and security that operates at scale
Participate in code reviews and retrospectives, and submit Pull Requests using Git
Collaborate with software engineers, test engineers, TPMs, and PM-Ts
Ensure that you use 12-factor app design principles in your development. 
Ensure that the systems you create comply with Mastercard engineering best practices and governance models, including security, operations, and Enterprise Architecture requirements
Mentor, coach and assist project team members. Provide technical training to the team. Assist with selection of technical resources for projects.
Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives for the business needs current and future.
Collaborate with business and technical partners to identify and scope opportunities, identify risks, benefits and constraints.
Contribute ideas to help ensure that required standards and processes are in place and actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.

All About You

Experience in delivering secure, maintainable, scalable and complex application solutions in a SAFe/Agile process.
Strong Java development/architecture experience
Experience documenting detailed designs with class and sequence diagrams.
Experience with responsive design, working with RESTful APIs and JSON.
Ability to debug server-side API calls.
Knowledge of Linux/Unix and security standards.
Knowledge/experience using cloud native development such as PCF, Azure, etc.
Experience in Spring framework, Maven, Kafka, Database Design, SQL.
Working Knowledge of tools like Sonar, Dynatrace, GIT, ALM, CI (Jenkins)/CD, Splunk.
Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written – and strong relationship, collaboration and organizational skills.
Ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies, frameworks and tools and support multiple concurrent activities and to interface with external / internal resources.
Ability to deal with pressure situation without compromising the processes.
Result oriented, self-driven and go-getter abilities.
Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience.

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.