Software Engineer - Full Stack

Our Purpose

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Title and Summary

Software Engineer - Full Stack

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.

The Real Time Payments team is looking for a 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 Software Engineer, you will:

• own software delivery tasks (code development, test, deployment) at an application/software component level
• Participate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholders
• Able to troubleshoot and refactor existing code
• Adopt new languages and architecture patterns needed for the work
• Influence the decisions made by the team
• Assist peers and less experienced members
• Demonstrate active learning and sharing of software practices via Guild/Engineering community initiatives
• Assist in technical documentation of APIs and services being delivered


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, Kafka or similar messaging technologies.
• 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.
• 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.
• good analytical and problem solving skills.
• the desire to stay abreast of advances in software engineering practices, technologies, and tooling.
• effective communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to express design ideas to a development team and senior management.

Nice to have:
• Experience working in payments industry.

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.