Senior Software Engineer - Java Backend

Overview:

The Mastercard Account Level Management (ALM) platform empowers real-time card level decisioning. As consumers progress along their life stages as card holders, with increasing disposable income and more refined preferences, ALM provides services to issuers so they can effectively offer more relevant benefits and rewards at each stage, to drive loyalty and spend.

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.

Major Accountabilities:

• 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 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. Maintain solution and technology road maps.
• 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 brownbag 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.
• Co-ordinate offshore development and manage day to day activities.

Education:
Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience.

Knowledge / Experience:
o Overall Career experience of 6-9 years of strong development experience using Java, Spring Framework, JavaScript and React.
o 3 to 5 years of experience in delivering secure solutions in Financial Services Sector is preferred.
o Broad understanding of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies is required.
o Has the ability to write secure code in Java, JavaScript and React.
o Familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerabilities
o Has skills in building applications using open frameworks to achieve reuse and reduce development times (e.g., Spring Boot, Steeltoe, React, Angular, DXP, others)
o Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to write interoperable and performant code
o Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors
o Has skills to document and coach team on the development practices and coding guidelines (e.g., branching, peer reviews, library use, logging, scanning rules, test-driven development, error handling)
o Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading, all from the gang of four) to implement efficient code
o Has skills to undertake a technical review of code across applications and their dependencies to look for anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring
o Understands and elaborates technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritization discussions with stakeholders to improve the run experience

Skills/ Abilities:

• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and have the ability to 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.