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

Overview:
Mastercard is a technology company in the Global Payments Industry. We operate the world’s fastest payments processing network, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. Mastercard products and solutions make everyday commerce activities – such as shopping, travelling, running a business and managing finances – easier, more secure and more efficient for everyone.
MasterCard is seeking for a Senior Software Engineering to join our Data and Analytics team in building new data driven products for our consumers. The candidate will work with cross-functional teams and business stakeholders in developing product platforms. The ideal candidate should be passionate about design thinking, customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.
Join our team and help shape the future of data and analytics!
Role:
Mastercard is building digital platform for data accessibility for different personas e.g., business-users, data engineers, for faster retrieval of data.
The Senior Software Development Engineer is a hands-on developer specializing in Java, Spring boot development with a particular focus producing API services in building product platforms.
What you will do:
• Design components by translating product requirements, break down project into tasks and provide accurate estimates.
• Responsible for the analysis, design, development, and delivery of software solutions.
• Plan, design and develop technical solutions and alternatives to meet business requirements in adherence with MasterCard standards, processes and best practices.
• Independently come up with different solutions, extensible low-level design. Write modular, extensible, readable, and performant code.
• Choose the right Data Structures, tools and tech stacks and be able to do High Level Designing with guidance.
• Research new frameworks and technologies, assist with prototyping and proof-of-concepts, participate in code reviews.
• Build, develop, mentor and coach junior team members.
• Collaborate with teams by contributing to the shared vision and working closely with cross-functional stakeholders.
• You will be responsible for the API’s you (and or your team) build and will support them till the time they are live in production.
• Contribute ideas to help ensure that required standards and processes are in place. Maintain solution and technology road maps.
• 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.
• 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.
All About You:
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of management.
• Ability to build rapport and relationships.
• A record of successful delivery of software applications as an individual
• Problem solver and solution-seeking approach
• Knowledgeable – possessing the technical knowledge, market knowledge, and other specialized knowledge of the team’s problem domain.
• Hands on experience in building complex and highly scalable and performing systems.
• Solid understanding and hands-on experience in Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, RESTful web services
• Solid understanding and experience integrating web services.
• Exposure to building cloud ready applications (microservices)
• Exposure to Test Driven Development, Continuous Delivery and Integration
• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and can function under pressure in an independent environment.
• Must provide the necessary skills to have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.
• Possesses strong communication skills -- both verbal and written – and strong relationship, collaborative skills and organizational skills.
• Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team.
• Bachelor’s in computer degree (BE/BTech)
• 7-8 years of software development 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.