Senior Software Engineer

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

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
Real-Time Payments (RTP) offer immediate transfer and detailed messaging options for A2A (Account to Account) payments and are critical on Mastercard’s journey for Multi-Rail Payments. Real Time Payments are categorized as Critical National Infrastructure for respective countries’ and requires high benchmark of resilience, availability, quality, and scalability. Within Real Time Paymeents, Data Feed Manager provides access to transaction, settlement, and reference data information from the Instant Payment System (IPS) in the form of data extracts, all year round.
The Real Time Payments team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with proven experience in a squad, including coaching and mentoring. Are you:
• A self starter who is able to take understand and take control of code without much need for knowledge transfer/training.
• Self sufficient in delivery and be able to progress on work areas with minimal supervision
Role
All staff at Mastercard are expected to demonstrate 'Mastercard Way' every day – create value for our customers, partners and colleagues; grow together to achieve our goals and move fast on what matters most for our customers and Mastercard.
As Senior Software Engineer, you will:
• own complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution.
• be responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions.
• write code to build and enhance applications/services and promote code-reviews, secure code, whilst adhering to standards and best practices resulting in the deliver high-quality artifacts through to production.
• define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements.
• automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed.
• drive seamless integration across all connected services to meet end-user expectations.
• promote a blameless postmortem culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings.
• advocate for engineering principles outside of current organization/platform.
• build relationships and effective partnerships across organizations.
• conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar.
• architect monitoring, logging, and alerting to provide end-to-end observability.

All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should have:
• experience in working with fast paced, modern architecture using Java, Spring Boot, Oracle RDBMS, SQL, Flyway.
• experience in UI technologies and practices using JavaScript, Angular, Typescript, React, etc.
• experience in designing and implementing data models, data migration, and data streams.
• experience working in cross-functional and large projects with globally dispersed engineering teams.
• the ability to write secure code and be familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and the detection and remediation of security vulnerabilities.
• the skills in building applications using opensource frameworks to achieve reuse and reduce development times (e.g., Spring Boot, React, others).
• the ability to configure rules and build automation for code with vulnerability scanning and software composition analysis using standard tools (e.g., SonarQube, Checkmarx, JFrog XRay, Blackduck, others)
• the skills to conduct various performance tests (e.g., load, spike, breakpoint, endurance) in order to assess if the design and implementation meets the non-functional requirements.
• proven history of designing enterprise-grade applications utilizing Domain Driven Design principles, microservices, event driven systems, 12 factor principles for cloud native applications, REST and GRPC API design, CAP Theorem, etc.
• a good understanding of distributed systems design and implementation.
• the ability to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors.
• the proficiency in Software Development Best Practices (TDD/BDD, Unit test, Continuous Integration and Delivery)
• the 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, XL Release, Ansible, others)
• practitioner of automation/configuration management, deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, A/B testing, feature flags).
• experience and comprehensive understanding of software/application observability (logging, tracing, metrics, etc), and health and liveliness features, which enable improved R&A and operational monitoring.
• very good analytical and problem solving skills.
• the desire to stay abreast of advances in software engineering practices, technologies, and tooling.
• very good inter-personal skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment
• effective communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to express design ideas to a development team and senior management.
Nice to have:
• Experience in building and maintaining critical national infrastructure.
• Experience working in payments industry.
• Good understanding of private and public cloud eco systems.
Work Schedules
• We currently operate a hybrid working pattern which allows colleagues to gain a work life balance with the requriement to work from the office and home for part of the week.
• Flexible to working patterns that enable colaboration and engagement with other teams/individuals that are located in differnet global time zones, as required.

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.