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

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 Settlement Program provides vital systems and services to the Mastercard Treasury and Finance team in support of global payments/customer funds movement, treasury operations, liquidity, foreign exchange, risk management and capital management. We are directly responsible for moving billions of dollars each day between our customers. We are an agile development organization with teams located in both St. Louis, Missouri, Dublin, Ireland and Pune, India.

Role:

Overview
•\tResponsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions
•\tDefines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices

Responsibilities
•\tOwn complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution
•\tWrite 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.
•\tDefine, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements
•\tDrive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners
•\tIdentify opportunities and build roadmaps to enhance primary service/function
•\tAutomate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed.
•\tDrive seamless integration across all connected services to meet end-user expectations
•\tDrive blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings
•\tIntroduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines
•\tAdvocate for engineering principles outside of current organization/platform
•\tProvide development and architecture guidance to team members
•\tBuild relationships and effective partnerships across organizations
•\tWrite and evaluate recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one's accomplishments
•\tConduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar
•\tLead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence
•\tEncourage staff to share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity


About You:
•\tHas ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, C, C++, SQL)
•\tFamiliar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management
•\tHas skills in building applications using open frameworks to achieve reuse and reduce development times (e.g., Spring Boot, Steeltoe, Angular, DXP, others)
•\tUnderstands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to write interoperable and performant code
•\tAble to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors
•\tHas 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)
•\tUnderstands 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
•\tHas skills to undertake a technical review of code across applications and their dependencies to look for anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring
•\tUnderstands and elaborates technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritization discussions with stakeholders to improve the run experience
•\tUnderstands system architecture to plan for platform and infrastructure capacity (e.g., database, compute, network, storage) and drives the dependency prioritization to reduce the delivery lead time
•\tHas skills to understand customer journeys and ensure a good customer experience by continuously reducing mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for incidents and ensuring high availability (99.95% as a starting point)
•\tHas skills to simplify deployment and eliminate software and infrastructure snowflakes using standardized platforms, ephemeral instances, and automation
•\tHas 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)
•\tAble to configure rules and build automation for code with vulnerability scanning and software composition analysis using standard tools (e.g., Sonar, Checkmarx, Nexus, JFrog XRay, Veracode, others)
•\tHas skills to define, organize, and report on test runs for major, minor, and hotfix releases (including unit, component level, system level, customer journeys, past customer issues, and regulatory controls)
•\tHas skills to conduct various performance tests (e.g., load, spike, breakpoint, endurance) to Understands application/service limits and behaviors

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.