Lead, 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

Lead, Software Engineer

Overview
The VCN, Spend Controls & Alerts team is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to help achieve time-to-market, quality excellence, and higher customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. A Lead Software Engineer position at MasterCard requires hybrid skills that involves hands-on knowledge of software development & quality engineering to develop a resilient software product that is testable in close to fully automated manner. Additionally, role requires in depth understanding of design patterns and perform code reviews.
Role
You will be responsible for programming, testing, implementation, documentation, maintenance, and support of systems application software in adherence with MasterCard standards, processes, and best practices. Responsibilities include the following:
• Lead a team of talented engineers to develop high-performance, high-volume Java applications.
• Work closely with technical leads, architects, and product owners to help define features and user stories.
• Develop high quality, secure, scalable software solutions based on technical requirements specifications and design artifacts within expected time and budget.
• Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives for the business needs current and future.
• Work with project team to meet scheduled due dates, while identifying emerging issues and recommending solutions.
• Document software programs per Software Development Best Practices
• Follow MasterCard Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes.
• Contribute ideas to help ensure that required standards and processes are in place and actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.
• Support collection and reporting of project and software metrics
• Design and develop test automation scenarios to validate system to system interfaces and complete software solutions (for API and UI tests)
• Closely adhere to quality standards and assist team members in validating application functionality through the implementation of test strategies, frameworks, tools, reports, etc.
• Provide automation tests for operations teams to use in Ci/Cd automated quality gates.
• Identify and implement complex automation efforts, including refactoring of automation code where needed.
• Provide technical training to the other team members.

All about You
• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering
• 10-13 years of strong hands-on experience of working on Scalable, Multi-threaded software products developed using core Java, Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring Batch Hibernate/JPA, Maven/Gradle, PL/SQL, Unix/Shell scrips and deployed on Tomcat.
• Experience of leading one or more scrum teams of software engineers to provide technical direction to the team and resolve blockers faced the development team
• Strong hands-on experience of working on both SOAP & RESTFUL APIs
• Knowledge of Cloud Native Development such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) & AWS
• Excellent hands-on knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins
• Hands-on experience of working on Test Automation Frameworks & related tools such as Selenium, Rest-assured, TestNG, Postman
• Good understanding of Java/microservices design patterns is expected.
• Create and own solution design for different features and ability to explain the same to non-technical as well as technical members by documenting the same.
• Knowledge of common industry standard best programming practices.
• Ability to innovate and develop new approaches to complex design problems.
• Experience working in a dynamic and collaborative work environment and make independent decisions.
• Ability to learn and deploy new technologies as needed.
• Experience in building scalable, maintainable applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication along with the Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines.
• Experience using the Agile Methodology and working with cross functional teams.
• Proven experience building world class solutions on a global scale.
• Experience working in an agile environment and actively contributing to discussions at retrospectives/elaboration sessions.

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.