Senior Software Engineer-3

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

Senior Software Engineer-3

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. 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 Mastercard Merchant Acceptance Program is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.
Merchant Acceptance Program consists of products & solutions that aim to increase Mastercard's acceptance footprint and improving quality of card holder experience at the point of interaction.

Role:
Work as a Senior engineer to deliver end-to-end product development.
Full Stack Development using UI technologies, Microservices, Messaging/Event Driven Frameworks, CI/CD on a Cloud Native environment
Ensure benchmarks are met on quality, performance, info security and other NFRs
Guide and mentor teams effectively as per needs. Train developers on the technologies needed.
Communicate effectively and coordinate with various global groups in MasterCard to ensure success of the projects, including Business Owners, Product Owners, Enterprise Architecture teams, other product teams etc.
Lead various initiatives for improving automation, defect metrics and overall quality. Conduct various Proofs-of-concept as per technological and business needs
Take responsibility for deciding the relevant tools, technologies and patterns that need to be implemented for the service

Knowledge/Experience (preferred):

Knowledge/Experience (preferred):

* Has ability to write secure code in two or more languages (UI technologies – React / Angular and Javascript – primary skill set, Java and API development – secondary skill set) and familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE etc) and vulnerability management
* Primary skill - Web [Angular, React, Javascript, jQuery, CSS, HTML]
* Secondary skill - Java [J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA]
* Excellent understanding of distributed cache and messaging system
Database [Postgres] – well versed in writing efficient and optimized SQL queries
Has vast experience in full stack development (ability to work on both API and UI layer)
* Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)
* Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices
* Understands use cases for UI state management, localization and middleware to implement efficient code
* Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloguing to drive API/service adoption and commercialization
* Has skills to author test code with lots of smaller tests followed by few contract tests at service level and fewer journey tests at the integration level (Test Pyramid concept)
* Has skills to collaborate with team and business stakeholders to estimate requirements (e.g., story pointing) and prioritize based on business value
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)
* Has skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines, and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD using industry standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, AWS/Azure pipelines).
Has skills to understand, report, and optimize delivery metrics to continuously improve upon them (e.g., velocity, throughput, lead time, defect leakage, burndown)
* Has skills to document and drive definition-of-done for requirements to meet both business and operational needs
* Understands how to build robust tests to minimize defect leakage by performing regression, performance, deployment verification, and release testing
* Has skills to conduct product demos and co-ordinate with product owners to drive product acceptance signoffs

Skills/Abilities:
• High energy, can-do attitude, strong desire to succeed
• Strong Analytical and skills
• Strong communication skills
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.