What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Software Engineer (Java) position at Mastercard?
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.
Job Title
Lead Software Engineer (Java)
Overview
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.
Providing Innovative, Secure, and Reliable Switching Solutions is the lifeblood of Mastercard Core Products, and we are currently seeking a passionate, collaborative, and experienced technical lead to join the Message Translation team.
If this describes you, let's talk!
About the Role:
- Own complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution
- Write code to build and enhance applications/services and promote code-reviews, code scanning, and other standard development practices to deliver high-quality artifacts to production.
- Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements
- Identify opportunities and build roadmaps to enhance primary service/function
- Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development
- Drive seamless integration across all connected services to meet end-user expectations
- Provide development and architecture guidance to team members
- Build relationships and effective partnerships across organizations
- Participate in technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar
- Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence
- Assist with customer communications and participate in reviews
- Mentors team members
All About You
- Has the ability to write secure code in Java and is familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerabilities
- Has skills in building applications using open frameworks to achieve reuse and reduce development times (e.g., Spring Boot)
- Extensive experience in design, development, testing and implementation
- Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to write interoperable and performant code
- Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors
- 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)
- -Has skills to undertake a technical review of code across applications and their dependencies to look for anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring
- Understands and elaborates technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritization discussions with stakeholders to improve the run experience
- Has skills to simplify deployment and eliminate software snowflakes through standardization and automation
- Has skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD using industry-standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, 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, Nexus)
- Possess knowledge of ISO 8583 and ISO 20022
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
Skillsets that would be a bonus
- Knowledge and experience in Volante
COVID-19 Considerations
We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we're all in this together. In many locations, which may change over time, we've implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by video or phone. In addition, in some locations, only individuals who have been fully vaccinated will be permitted inside Mastercard offices until further notice.
In the US, Mastercard is a government contractor, which may legally require most Mastercard employees to be vaccinated unless a verified approved medical or religious exemption is granted. Further, we are currently making every effort towards having employees return to work in the office 2 days per week, if that makes sense for their team. Everyone must be vaccinated to enter Mastercard offices at this time. Therefore, we expect all candidates to be vaccinated or to be approved for a medical or religious accommodation prior to commencing work at Mastercard.
In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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.