Lead Software Engineer (Java, Spring Boot, design & architecture)

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, Spring Boot, design & architecture)

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 Franchise and Legal Solutions (FLS) Program contributes to the future of Mastercard by enabling growth in products, markets, services and innovations in an increasingly complex and competitive environment, while protecting our brand and business. We support, enable, and protect the franchise agreement by implementing the rules of the road for anyone interacting with our business. Our teams design, develop, and maintain comprehensive business solutions that connect the dots across different regions and functions. Our deep technology portfolio offers ample room for engineers to use innovation as a driver of strategy. Technologists working with us will grow in Agile, architecture, design, engineering, and strategy.

Role
All staff at Mastercard are expected to demonstrate 'Mastercard Way' cultural values every day -own it, simplify it, sense of urgency, thoughtful risk-taking, unlock potential, and be inclusive –with a relentless focus on our customers.
As a Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard, you are expected to perform the following general duties:
Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drive resolution.
Develop medium-sized project/initiatives as an individual contributor with advanced knowledge within discipline, leading a segment of several initiatives or a larger initiative, or may formally supervise a small team, and assigns day-to-day work
Designs and develops applications, system to system interfaces and complete software solutions, and creates documentation such as user guides and software development guides
Supports and provides technical guidance to junior team members
Significant advanced code development, code review and day-to-day support duties
Work with business/product owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles
Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies
Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy
Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence
All About You

• Minimum 10 years of software development, design & architecture experience on medium to complex applications
• Good knowledge of Data Structures & Algorithms, Architecture Principles, Design Patterns.
• Experience of building services on cloud platform such as PCF.
• Experience in Java/J2EE technologies with Spring Boot framework, REST APIs, JSON, Groovy, Grails, front end technologies (CSS, HTML, AngularJS,React or similar framework), Web & Application Server
• Database [Oracle,Postgres, Redis, MySQL]
• Hands on experience of writing Junit/Spock test cases.
• Micro services architecture working experience is added advantage
• Experience with AngularJS 6.0 or later. Exposure to Jasmine, Karma is added advantage
• Application Security including information security principles and realization, web app security and PCI DSS Compliance
• Experience in implementing CI/CD build pipelines with tools like Git/Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory
• Experience with software development frameworks such as Scrum, SAFe Agile
• Strong inter-personal skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment with cross-functional teams and business

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.