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

Senior Software Engineer
Who is Mastercard?
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:
The Mastercard® Cross Border platform and services enable secure, near real-time payment transfers to and from billions of card, bank and digital accounts globally. Program Participants (banks, businesses, digital players and more) can modernize the way they send money cross-border, making funds available to recipients almost instantly. Mastercard Cross Border is proven to increase user spend and engagement, strengthening core business performance.

Do you like to be part of a team that is creating and executing strategic initiatives centered around digital payments?
Do you look forward to developing and engaging with high performant diverse teams around the globe?
Would you like to be part of a highly visible, strategically important global engineering organization?
About the role
Software Engineers at Mastercard design and code a variety of applications covering transaction processing, analytics, user interfaces, and APIs using a blend of cutting-edge technologies across big data, distributed systems, machine learning, and more. As a Software Engineer, you will deliver these products and solutions with speed and agility as part of a small team. This will involve developing high-performing, highly scalable software solutions and products for some of the world’s top brands. Specific tasks vary depending on the project and the business unit that you join in.
All staff at Mastercard are expected to demonstrate '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. As a Senior Software Engineer at Mastercard, you are expected to perform the following general responsibilities:
• Help lead team prioritization discussions in close collaboration with Product and Business stakeholders
• Estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation)
• Automate build, operate, and run aspects of software
• Drive code/design/process trade-off discussions within their team when required
• Be a voice of the team, performing demos/acceptance discussions with Product owners and confidently communicating elsewhere when needed
• Drive adoption of technology standards and practices and review code, test, and automation work of team members
• Mentor and guide new and less-experienced team members
All about you
• It is expected a candidate should have experience across multiple areas listed below.
• Apply advanced design patterns, Application Programming Interface (API) standards, adoption, and commercialization. Write performant code and debug/troubleshoot complex issues across multi-tiered software architectures. Analyzes/Designs/Implements scalable data retention architectures.
• Polygot with expertise on Java and atleast 1 additional language [.net, Python, Angular]. Extensive Java expertise is mandatory, given the core platform is built using Java stack
• Leads planning, prioritizing and scoping features, backlog, technical debt, and enhancements for their team, making the right tradeoffs by collaborating with team, business, and management stakeholders. Coordinates with product owners to drive acceptance and signoffs. Understands, reports, and optimizes delivery metrics to continuously improve them (e.g., velocity, throughput, lead time, defect leakage, burndown);
• Good oral and written communicator. Explains concepts accurately and well across a range of technical and business domains. Very high level of precision in technical and design discussions. Conveys and communicates ideas in a way that significantly enhances understanding, collaboration, and engagement. Communicates very well across seniority levels, roles, and geographies.
• Architects test plans with a comprehensive and thoughtful level of coverage to cover business use cases and edge conditions. Builds confidence in changes to complex systems. Understands how and when to employ various types of tests such unit, regression, performance, and integration.
• Highly effective debugging complex issues and relentless in discovering root causes of bugs that span multiple services and product modules.
• Mentors junior engineers and interns to a high level of productivity and independence. Teaches technical and domain knowledge, and best practices. Encourages others to take on additional opportunities and challenges.
• Manage builds and artifacts delivery/release using standard tools. Ability to understand/automate software upgrades, patches, and releases via CI/CD pipelines. Familiarity with application/system metrics collection, observability, and monitoring.
• Exhibits and encourages flexibility and professionalism. Approaches discussions with empathy with a goal of building consensus. Finds way pitches in and lends support where needed. Valuable partner with team members in all roles and geographies.
• History of garnering business/organizational needs and applying industry/software trends to produce unique solutions to design/architectural challenges across org/team boundaries.

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.