Lead software engineer - Java, springboot, Scala, Azure, SQL, Rest

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 - Java, springboot, Scala, Azure, SQL, Rest

Overview
Mastercard company is seeking a Lead Software Engineer, which serves various client-tele such as Merchants, Financial Institutions (Issuer, Acquirer), Digital players to recognize & Subscription as a Service in the respective ecosystems and provide ability to react with confidence. Our solution provides data analytics, visualization & data marketplace capabilities while leveraging cloud-based user interface, micro-services, visualization capabilities, SaaS integrations like Azure AD, Google Cloud Platform, Scala, Lens, Splunk, Dynatrace, Cassandra & Snowflake.
Are you motivated by speeding business solutions to market?
Do you want to innovate, using cutting edge technologies on challenging business problems? 
Do you want to be part of an innovator that is changing the ecommerce landscape and reinventing the way global merchants and issuers combat fraud through collaboration?  
We welcome the challengers and thought leaders. We want the agile, creative risk-takers who can address challenges with an open mind, the freedom to innovate and the strength to dominate. Ethoca’s growth is explosive, and only great problem-solvers, collaborators and thinkers can help us take it to the next level. If that sounds like you, keep reading. 
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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.
Role
Provide support of applications software through programming, analysis, design, development, and delivery of software solutions. Research alternative technical solutions for changing business needs. Should be able to help team mates for any technical issues.
Major Accountabilities:
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.  
10+ Years of Hands-on Software development experience. 8+ years in Software and microservices architecture. Familiar with DevOps and IT Operations best practices. 
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 
Strong domain knowledge of Java 8 (or later). Spring Boot knowledge is required. 
Experience with databases: Relational & NoSQL  
Experience with User interface development framework (Angular preferred) 
Thorough and extensive knowledge and understanding of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies is required. 
Excellent written and spoken communication 
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.

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.