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

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our talented team to aid Financial Institutions in their fight against money laundering and fraud. We craft bespoke services that help our clients gain an understanding of the underlying criminal behaviour that drives financial crime, empowering them to take action.

As part of the development team, your role will focus on creating and maintaining the application across the whole lifecycle.

Role

• Establish and enforce best practices for microservices architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability of our solutions.
• Take personal responsibility for creating and maintaining the application, in Java and React.
• Iterate design and build to add new features and improve performance.
• Mentor team members on microservices design principles, patterns and technologies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
• Develop a complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems. Apply that understanding in code.
• Write tests with high coverage including unit, contract, and integration tests.
• Version control code with git and build, test and deploy using ci/cd pipelines.
• Review team members code, identifying errors and improving performance and readability. Drive code design and process trade-off discussions within the team when required.
• Perform demos and join acceptance discussions with analysts, developers and product owners.
• Assist in task planning and review as part of a sprint-based workflow.
• Estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements.
• The role is hybrid, and the expectation is that you attend the office according to Mastercard policy.

All About You

First and foremost, you enjoy building products to solve real, pressing problems for your customers. You are detail oriented and enjoy writing and reviewing code to a high standard with tests to prove it.

• Demonstrable ability to write Java and SQL in a production context. You are happy to learn new programming languages and frameworks as necessary.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to break down complex problems into manageable components.
• Experience with large volumes of data and high throughput, low latency solutions.
• You understand and have implemented Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloguing to drive API/service adoption and commercialisation.
• You have experience in resolving different solutions and approaches to problems and can choose between pragmatic and rigorous solutions depending on the situation.
• You are comfortable working in a devops-based software development workflow, including building, testing, and continuous integration/deployment. You are also happy to evolve along with the development process and contribute to its success.
• You are comfortable communicating with a range of stakeholders, including subject matter experts, data scientists, software engineers, systems analysts, devops and security professionals.
• You can engage with best practices for code review, version control, and change control, balancing the need for a quality codebase with the unique and particular demands of scale-up stage software engineering.
• You have experience optimising solution performance with a constrained set of technologies.
• Full stack experience is beneficial, in Java and React

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.