Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack developer-R-250513

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 - Full Stack developer

As a Lead Software Engineer at the Loyalty Rewards and Segments Organization, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and delivering software frameworks in the areas of event-driven architecture and zero trust for use in large-scale distributed systems. Loyalty Rewards and Segments is an organization within Mastercard that provide end to end loyalty management solution for banks, merchants and Fintechs.

The ideal candidate for this role will have a strong background in software design, development, and testing, with a passion for technology and software development. They will be highly motivated, intellectually curious, and analytical, with a desire to continuously learn and improve. As a member of the Loyalty Rewards and Segments team, you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver software frameworks that meet the needs of Mastercard's customers.

Role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction, architecture, design, and engineering practices.
• Prototype and proving concepts for new technologies, application frameworks, and design patterns to improve software development practices.
• Design and develop software frameworks using industry-standard best practices and methodologies
• Write efficient and maintainable code that meets feature specifications
• Debug and troubleshoot code to resolve issues and improve performance
• Validate software functionality, including performance, reliability, and security
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect and deliver new services
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and consistency
• Document software design, development, and testing processes
• Balance trade-offs between competing interests with judgment and experience.
• Identify synergies and reuse opportunities across teams and programs.
  
  
  

Key Expectations

• Focus on individual and team objectives as an active participant in the Agile/Scrum development process, completing assignments on time, with the necessary quality, and in accordance with the project timeline
• Continuously learn and keep up-to-date with the latest software development technologies and methodologies
• Communicate effectively and professionally with team members and stakeholders
• Proactively identify opportunities for process improvements and efficiency gains
• Demonstrate a commitment to quality, best practices, and continuous improvement
  
  
  

All About You

• You have an exceptional foundation in Computer Science fundamentals, web applications & services, and microservices-based software architecture.
• You have demonstrated experience architecting solutions based on platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and containers, including PCF, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies.
• You have architected & designed high transaction volume, financial (banking, payment) systems that operate at global scale and extreme up-time requirements.
• You have experience with web technologies including HTML5, CSS, Javascript, and front-end frameworks such as Angular.
• You have extensive experience in designing and building global-scale, back-end micro services using Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Kafka, RabbitMQ
• You have a deep understanding of storage technologies such as PostgreSQL or SQL Server, and how to effectively leverage them at massive scale.
• You have deep experience with cloud-native technologies and best practices, including Azure & AWS.
• You have experience with automated testing and successfully releasing software in a continuous delivery model using Git.
• You enjoy working in an Agile environment focused on continuous improvement.
• You have a strong desire to collaborate and provide mentorship to technology teams.
• You enjoy working with product leaders to inform and support options for delivering highly capable solutions that meet market demands.
• You desire to be hands-on building prototypes to solve complex business problems.
• You have excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical people.
• You are a relentless self-starter who works quickly and efficiently to support product and technical objectives.
• You advocate for what’s technically important and doing the right thing.
  
  
  

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.
  
  
  

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