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

Job Description Summary
Overview
Be part of the Operations & Technology Fraud Products team developing new capabilities for MasterCard's Decision Management Platform, which serves as the core for multiple business solutions to combat fraud and validate cardholder identity. Our patented Java-based platform processes billions of transactions per month in tens of milliseconds using a multi-tiered, message-oriented approach for high performance and availability.
• Would you like to develop industry leading solutions for fighting fraud?
• Are you motivated by speeding business solutions to market?
• Do you want to innovate, using cutting edge technologies on challenging business problems?

Role
This role involves working with a team of talented engineers to develop high performance, low latency Java based solutions on the Fraud Management Platform. In this role, you will:
• Work closely with team members for assigned projects to assist in design and implementation tasks.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of innovative, low latency, high performance Java based capabilities on the Mastercard Fraud Platform.
• Work as part of a co-located Agile Scrum team.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Technical leads and other developers to define user stories.
• Develop high-quality, scalable and secure software solutions.
• Assist with operational issues by troubleshooting incidents.
• Research alternative technical solutions to meet changing business needs.
• Work with project team to meet due dates, while working through emerging issues and recommending solutions.
• Contribute to the creation of design documentation in accordance with Mastercard documentation standards.

All About You
• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and have the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment.
• Must provide the necessary skills to have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.
• Possesses strong communication skills -- both verbal and written – and strong relationship, collaborative skills and organizational skills.
• Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member of geographically distributed project team.
• Some knowledge of Agile software development processes.
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment, using VI editor and general command line proficiency
• Must have minimum 5 years’ experience working in Java Based applications
• Essential Skills:
○ Proficiency with Java JDK 8 or greater.
○ Creating and debugging J2EE REST Web Services and Web Applications
○ Some database experience including Oracle and SQL scripting
○ Experience with Spring Framework (including Spring Boot) and Maven
○ Experience writing unit tests with Junit and Mockito
○ Experience working with JBoss and/or Apache Tomcat
○ Experience with Git
○ Fluency in English.
• Desirable skills
○ Knowledge of working with containerised environments, such as Kubernetes/OpenShift/CloudFoundry
○ Knowledge of integration frameworks such as Apache Camel/Spring Integration
○ Knowledge of distributed systems and messaging queuing systems.
○ Knowledge of Splunk or other alerting and monitoring solutions.
○ Knowledge of Tomcat, Spring, Spring Boot, Shell Scripting, JSON.

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.