Designs and develops high-performance API platforms for transaction data using Java, microservices, and distributed systems. Leads architecture, technical roadmaps, system development, maintenance, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and delivery against SLAs. Guides engineers, conducts technical interviews, coaches team members, and collaborates globally. Requires expertise in Spring, SQL and NoSQL databases, cloud hosting, automated testing, and CI/CD practices.
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
Principal Software Engineer
Who is Mastercard?
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.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
The Data Distribution & Analytics team is looking for an Architect to build an API interface to access the transaction datasets residing in Data warehouse. You will have the opportunity to create high-performance API solutions and will be responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions.
Role:• Hands-on developer who writes high quality, secure code that is modular, functional, and testable.• Design and build technical roadmaps and guide the development staff on adoption.• Lead day to day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality, and faster time to market.• Have strong ownership of your team's software and are deep in the maintenance characteristics, runtime properties and dependencies including hardware, operating system, and build.• Investigate and troubleshoot customer reported issues and propose solutions which meet customer requirements along with architectural and business requirements.• Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar. Coach other technical resources.• Communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a global environment.
All About You: • Proficient in architecture, design and implementation of micro services and distributed, scalable systems. Extensive experience with API based platforms. • Expert programming skills in Java and micro-service development and junits. • Expertise with Spring Cloud, Spring Boot, Tomcat.• Skilled in working with both SQL and NoSQL persistence technologies, e.g. Postgress, Oracle, MongoDB. • Proficiency in software development test approaches & frameworks: ATDD/BDD, Unit tests, Cucumber, Spock.• Expertise working with cloud hosting technologies such as PCF, Azure. • Command of CI/CD principles and tools such as Maven, Jenkins, Chef. • Expertise in identifying performance bottlenecks and coming up with novel ways to solve them.• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. • Leadership, initiative and willingness to take on challenging opportunities. • Highly motivated and interested in cultivating a high performance team environment.
Education• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent work
experience.
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:
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
Principal Software Engineer
Who is Mastercard?
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.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
The Data Distribution & Analytics team is looking for an Architect to build an API interface to access the transaction datasets residing in Data warehouse. You will have the opportunity to create high-performance API solutions and will be responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions.
Role:• Hands-on developer who writes high quality, secure code that is modular, functional, and testable.• Design and build technical roadmaps and guide the development staff on adoption.• Lead day to day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality, and faster time to market.• Have strong ownership of your team's software and are deep in the maintenance characteristics, runtime properties and dependencies including hardware, operating system, and build.• Investigate and troubleshoot customer reported issues and propose solutions which meet customer requirements along with architectural and business requirements.• Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar. Coach other technical resources.• Communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a global environment.
All About You: • Proficient in architecture, design and implementation of micro services and distributed, scalable systems. Extensive experience with API based platforms. • Expert programming skills in Java and micro-service development and junits. • Expertise with Spring Cloud, Spring Boot, Tomcat.• Skilled in working with both SQL and NoSQL persistence technologies, e.g. Postgress, Oracle, MongoDB. • Proficiency in software development test approaches & frameworks: ATDD/BDD, Unit tests, Cucumber, Spock.• Expertise working with cloud hosting technologies such as PCF, Azure. • Command of CI/CD principles and tools such as Maven, Jenkins, Chef. • Expertise in identifying performance bottlenecks and coming up with novel ways to solve them.• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. • Leadership, initiative and willingness to take on challenging opportunities. • Highly motivated and interested in cultivating a high performance team environment.
Education• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent work
experience.
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.
Mastercard Pune, Mahārāshtra, IND Office
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