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 Mobile Payment Gateway (MPG) program is part of Mastercard Markets and Localization team, responsible for driving the identification of new opportunities across different markets and building bespoke solutions and integrating with the wider Mastercard products and services.

The MPG program aspires to be the platform of choice for economies moving into the Digital first world of payments. We are building a solution and an ecosystem to enable the Mastercard multi-rail capabilities into these markets, building a Digital Payment Hub that integrates with Mastercard and Industry Payment processing and management solutions – both in the online and offline world.

Our positioning puts us right in the middle of 3 key dimensions –

Integrating with a varied set of global and regional Payments solutions,

Ensuring Security as we deliver services in both an API-first approach and over mobile platforms, and

Building an unique customer experience coupled with a set of compelling user journeys, meeting the ever growing and varied Digital financial needs of consumers.

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Software Engineer with proven experience in building enterprise solutions using Java, Spring, Microservices and Cloud technologies.

Role

We live by the ‘Mastercard Way’ cultural values every day - own it, simplify it, sense of urgency, thoughtful risk taking, unlock potential, and be inclusive – with a relentless focus on our customers.

In this role, you will be building and supporting an enterprise payments solution integrating with multiple external systems and exposing digital payments experiences for consumers and merchants via APIs. You will be part of an agile team of 8 -12 teammates and practice DevOps to achieve operational targets. This is a senior position in the team, so you will also play a part in coaching and mentoring your junior counterparts. We are looking for a hand-on, skilled Senior Software development engineer who:

Design and implement microservices with high quality, secure code that is modular, functional and testable.

Develop solutions that are resilient, self-healing and Cloud Native.

Perform assessment of technology frameworks and integration products to meet demand of growing capability and scale.

Be an active participant of your DevOps team with full accountability of CI/CD, test automation, support and monitoring of functions within a team.

Adhere to and drive maturity of engineering processes and standards, including change management principles and processes to ensure deliverables meet or exceed defined quality standards.

Develop own and peers skills and be a mentor to junior peers, to build T-shaped team.

Communicate, collaborate and work effectively in a global environment.

This role will also require you to participate in occasional weekend work and on call work.

All About You

Education

Bachelor or Master's degree in the area of Computer Science or Engineering

Expertise

Experience in software engineering majorly in application development

Expert level skills in Java programming and familiar with secure coding standards (e.g. OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT)

Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures and core computer science concepts.

Experience Developing in Java and J2EE technologies like Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Micro services, REST API

Strong hands on experience in design, development and test using micro service / lightweight containers & frameworks such as Spring Boot

Experience in working with cloud technologies (Docker, K8s, AWS/Azure), micro-service design, CI/CD (Jenkins/Chef), DevOps

Proven track record in building and automating process to streamline improve engineering processes

Experience with TDD and BDD in the software development processes

Strong analytical and excellent problem-solving skills.

Experience working in an Agile(Scrum/SAFe) environment.

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Enjoys collaborating with a team while working independently towards a goal.

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.