Lead Software Engineer

Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Lead Software Engineer

Overview
The Mastercard Builders’ Enablement Program has an exciting opportunity for a Lead Software Engineer. We are part of Mastercard’s Team ONE (Operations, Network and Employee Digital Experience) empowering 6000+ Engineers around the globe. We are responsible for creating a great developer experience enabling engineering teams to deliver innovative payment solutions for hundreds of millions of customers.
Our services enable Mastercard engineering teams to focus on delivering business value from ideation to market. The ideal candidate will help Mastercard developers efficiently build, test, and deliver secure, quality code.
Role
This role involves working with a team of talented developers to develop high performance, high volume solutions. You will be responsible for:
• Design and implement microservice capabilities in Java
• Develop high-quality, secure, scalable and maintainable software solutions.
• Apply best practices for automated testing, automated code quality, automated delivery & automated monitoring.
• Mentor the junior engineers on your team through sound technical advice, UML documentation & code reviews
• Collaborate with Leads, Developers & Product Owners to ensure business value is delivered in a timely manner
• Work as part of a cross-functional and geographically distributed team to make our developer experience awesome
• Ensure that Developer Experience is central to everything we do
• Ensure that the team adheres to Mastercard Engineering Principles, Builders Enablement Development standards, and Corporate Security guidelines
• Actively participate as a member of the Software Engineering Guild sharing your knowledge, best practices, ideas, and passion for technology
Skills
• 10+ years experience in OOP/OOAD with Java JDK 8 or higher. Experience with Go is a plus
• Knowledge of Tomcat, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate, REST microservices architecture
• Experience with Kubernetes and container technologies
• Experience with Design Patterns and Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Experience with SQL, Multi-threading, Message Queuing & Distributed Systems
• Experience with one or more Cloud platforms with a good working knowledge of availability zones, regions, security, Cloud APIs, virtual networking, and the capabilities and offerings of the various providers (e.g., Azure, AWS, and GCP)
• Expertise in Junit or other automated unit testing frameworks
• Knowledge of Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus or other alerting and monitoring solutions
• Fluent in the use of Git, Jenkins
• Experience working in a regulated environment with secure software development practices (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR)
• Experience in performance testing with JMeter, Gatling and similar tools
• Experience with building upon and contributing to innersource projects (e.g. CI/CD, Shared libraries)
• Experience automating processes to improve developer efficiency
• DevSecOps/CI-CD, Site Reliability experience for distributed systems is an advantage
In addition
• Must be self-motivated and a team-player operating in a high performance environment
Education
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Electrical or an equivalent Engineering stream

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.