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

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:

Mastercard’s Network & Digital Payments group creates valued experiences for consumers, and enables merchants and issuers to reach consumers in ways not possible in the pre-digital world. The global product engineering team is responsible for development of a suite of foundational payment solutions. This an opportunity to be a part of a highly motivated team focused on bringing security, convenience and control to digital payments.
• Have you ever engineered a product to market on a global scale?
• Are you motivated to be a part of driving a world beyond cash?
• Are you agile with a desire to exhibit your skills at the cutting edge with a high standard for excellence?

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

- create designs and drive trade-off discussions a small collaborative team of product managers and software engineers;
- devise and develop microservices-based solutions focused on achieving positive customer outcomes, customer journeys and customer experience;
- apply best practices from previous industry experience, whilst adhering to our own engineering principles of writing high quality, secure code that is modular, functional and testable;
- perfect automated pipelines for code development, extensive testing and deployment into cloud-based environments in order to deliver accelerated product development;
- take true ownership for your team’s software and actively engage in its maintenance characteristics, runtime properties and dependencies; including hardware, operating system and build;
- support production deployment, system maintenance and operations of the applications, even when things don’t go as expected or incidents occur; responding to incidents as a member of the on-call support team;
- identify incident root cause and ensure the remediation of issues;
- drive ongoing, measurable improvements to the maintenance, operational and runtime characteristics of your team’s software;
- provide feedback on peer designs, code, tests and automations, providing optimization and simplification recommendations;
- champion our adoption of technology standards and opinionated frameworks.

You should apply if:
- you have solid experience with server-side, backend applications and technologies;
- you’re comfortable working in a team that’s exploring new ways of working;
- you enjoy sharing your knowledge and experience with your colleagues;
- you have strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, object-oriented development, cyber security, design patterns and core computer science concepts;
- you have expertise in modern software design principles, such as SOLID or DRY;
- you have experience in data modelling and database design for both relational and non-relational technologies;
- you have experience of RESTful API and stateless service design patterns and deployment;
- you have lots of experience developing using strongly-typed languages such as Java, Go, C, Scala, Kotlin, etc. – Java is the main language we use at Mastercard;
- you have developed for complex applications deployed in cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud using containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes;
- you’re skilled in testing according to the Test Pyramid principles; automating unit, integration, contract and journey tests;
- you can build robust testing strategies to minimize defects by regression, performance, deployment verification and release testing processes; and,
- you’re excited to build applications that have global impact and are used daily by 100s of millions of people.

It would also be great if:
- you’ve used the Spring Framework components – it’s what we use to create our cloud-ready applications;
- you’ve used Pivotal Cloud Foundry to deploy cloud-ready applications;
- you’ve built Event Driven applications;
- you’ve built 12-factor applications;
- you have “Full-stack” experience and can solve all aspects of the technology problem to deliver a solution to a production environment;
- you have knowledge of technologies for databases, messaging, caches, API gateways, networking, pipelines, etc. – and preferably the products we use such as Jenkins, Splunk, Oracle, Apache Kafka, Redis and NATS.

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.