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
Senior Software Engineer - Java BackendWho is Mastercard?
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.
Technology at Mastercard
What we create today will define tomorrow. Revolutionary technologies that reshape the digital economy to be more connected and inclusive than ever before. Safer, faster, more sustainable.
And we need the best people to do it. Technologists who are energized by the challenges of a truly global network. With the talent and vision to create the critical systems and products that power global commerce and connect people everywhere to the vital goods and services they need every day.
Working at Mastercard means being part of a unique culture. Inclusive and diverse, a rich collaboration of ideas and perspectives. A place that celebrates your strengths, values your experiences, and offers you the flexibility to shape a career across disciplines and continents. And the opportunity to work alongside experts and leaders at every level of the business, improving what exists, and inventing what’s next.
Enablement Services Program
Network Services Program offers a suite of value-added switching services supporting Digital, Commercial and Authorization products by managing PAN attributes in the Account Catalog Platform (formerly AMS/SSI) and providing cryptography validation on Switching transactions through the Security Switching Services Platform (formerly Crypto-Services Platform(CSP)). Our program charter is to offer existing and new services that are scalable, resilient, and deployable anywhere in any environment (on-prem or cloud); supporting localization needs, increasing our global reach and allowing us to touch more switched transactions on the network to drive incremental revenue for Mastercard.
About the Role
Software Engineers at Mastercard design and code artificial intelligence, cloud, and machine learning platforms that provide mission-critical insights to many of the world’s leading organizations and governments. As a Software Engineer, you will deliver these products and solutions with speed and agility as part of a small team. This will involve developing high-performing, highly scalable software solutions and products for some of the world’s top brands. Specific tasks vary depending on the project and the business unit that you join in.
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 Senior Software Engineer at Mastercard, you are expected to perform the following general responsibilities:
• Actively participate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholders
• Estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements
• Drive code/design/process trade-off discussions within their team when required
• Perform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product owners
• Develop complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems
• Drive adoption of technology standards and opinionated frameworks, and review coding, test, and automation work of team members
• Mentor and guide new and less-experienced team members
• Identify opportunities to improve an overall process and trim waste; Share and seek knowledge within Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity
All About You
• 6-9 years of overall career experience into development
• Skilful at writing secure code in multiple languages (Java, SQL); Familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management
• Experienced with Java Spring Boot Microservices.
• Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, scalability, resiliency, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification)
• Proficient in authoring test code with lots of smaller tests followed by few contract tests at service level and fewer journey tests at the integration level (Test Pyramid concept)
• Apply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity
• Proficient in collaborating with team and business stakeholders to estimate requirements (e.g., story pointing) and prioritize based on business value
• Able to perform domain-driven design to architect and map software solutions to business contexts
• Proficient in orchestrating release workflows and pipelines, and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD using industry standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, AWS/Azure pipelines, XL Release, others); Able to configure rules and build automation for code with vulnerability scanning and software composition analysis using standard tools (e.g., Sonar, Checkmarx, JFrog XRay, Veracode, others)
• Manage builds and artifacts leveraging standard tools (e.g.,Artifactory) to ensure error-free deployment of production code using canary and or blue-green techniques
• Proficient in authoring test cases leveraging behavior-driven development and customer journey concepts
• Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology or related discipline preferred, or equivalent work experience; Payment industry knowledge preferred but not required
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.
