Software Engineer II

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

Software Engineer II

Overview
Supporting the Decision Enrichments team. Members of this team have an opportunity to build new and extend current fraud prevention services. This exciting area within Mastercard is growing fast and creating cutting edge technologies that prevent fraud across the globe.
This is an agile team that is primarily working on backend systems in Java. The team will also provide leadership for other teams in using strong architecture and technology delivery practices that create the best solutions.
The Software Development Engineer will play a critical role in creating new products and new functionality.
Role
• Provide support of applications software through programming, analysis, design, development, and delivery of software solutions. Research alternative technical solutions for changing business needs.
• Participate in designing highly scalable, fault tolerant, and performant systems in cloud
• Liaise with stakeholders to understand the needs of business 
• Ensure project implementation(s) and technical delivery are compliant with solution architectural design and best practices
• Ensure that technical designs and deliveries milestones are accomplished on time 
• Ensure that technical designs and deliveries are aligned with business needs, infrastructure capabilities and security & compliance requirements 
• Evaluate current and emerging technologies via Proof of Concepts or similar.
• Provide technical guidance to the project team(s).
• Consult and support project team(s) regarding project implementation.
• Analyze ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Take a holistic approach to problem solving, by connecting the dots during a production event thru the various technology stack that makes up the platform, to optimize mean time to recover
• Explain technical issues and solution strategies to stakeholders.
• Assist with project scoping, sizing, prioritizing, planning, and estimation 
• Thrive in a highly collaborative company environment where agility is paramount 
• Stay up to date with new technologies on the front-end and server-side through self-study, blogs, meetups, conferences, etc. 
All About You
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or extensive work experience.  
• 2+ Years of Hands-on Software development experience. 1+ years in Software and microservices architecture. Familiar with DevOps and IT Operations best practices. 
• Strong domain knowledge of Java 8 (or later). Spring Boot knowledge is required. 
• Experience with databases: Relational & NoSQL.
• Experience with cloud based infrastructure: Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Current understanding of best practices regarding application & system security 
• Experience in data analytics knowledge, experience with ETL, Data Modelling & Pattern analysis is desired.
• Willing to learn new technology stack and available to support customer & production environments for issue mitigation.
• Need to work with global team and available in different time zones (US, Canada, Dublin, India).
• Success with producing high quality project design deliverables and documentation 
• Experience with User interface development framework (Angular preferred) 
• Thorough and extensive knowledge and understanding of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies is required. 

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.