Senior Software Engineer (Java, OOPS, Design)

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 (Java, OOPS, Design)

Overview:
Responsible for the analysis, design, development, and delivery of software solutions. Define requirements for new applications and customization adhering to MasterCard standards, processes, and best practices. Develop, customize, and test applications to integrate to MasterCard’s specifications. Provide leadership, mentoring, and technical training to other team members
Role:
• Plan, design and develop technical solutions and alternatives to meet business requirements in adherence with MasterCard standards, processes, and best practices.
• Lead day-to-day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and create solutions with a high level of innovation, cost-effectiveness, high quality, and faster time to market.
• Accountable for full systems development life cycle including creating high quality requirements documents, use-cases, design, and other technical artifacts including but not limited to detailed test strategy/test design, performance benchmarking, release rollout and deployment plans, contingency/back-out plans, feasibility study, cost and time analysis and detailed estimates.
• Perform system maintenance, production incident problem management, identification of root cause, remediation of the problems, and on-call pager support schedule. Select appropriate technical frameworks and solution delivery methodology. Adapt to the technical artifact templates per the needs of the project and technology. Contribute ideas to help ensure that required standards and processes are in place.
• Research and evaluate current and upcoming technologies and frameworks.
• Participate in PoCs (Proof of Concept) and help the Department with selection of Vendor Solutions, Technologies, Methodologies and Frameworks.
• Collaborate with Vendor Resources for Support of Products.
• Conduct brown bag sessions on new and upcoming technologies, methodologies, and application-appropriate frameworks. Ensure knowledge transfer of vendor technology to MasterCard staff. Provide technical training to the other team members.
• Follow and promote Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes in the department. Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency. Mentor and guide other team members during all phases of the SDLC. Ensure adequate test coverage in Unit Testing, System Testing/Integration Testing, and Performance Testing. Perform Quality Inspections and Walkthroughs throughout the SDLC, including Requirements Review, Design Review, Code Review, and Security Review to ensure compliance with MasterCard standards.
All About You:
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• 5 to 7 years of proven software development experience
• Strong knowledge of design patterns, performance recommendations, threading, and best practices
• Working knowledge of the software design architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Must be keen on maintaining product quality.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Familiarity with Android/iOS is an added advantage
• Exposure to digital payments and cryptography is an added advantage
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as SVN, Git, etc.

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.