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 - Java

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 Enterprise Data Accessibility program’s mission is to unlock the potential of enterprise data sets. The API Enablement team is responsible for building, scaling, and expanding the APIs that power Mastercard applications with enterprise data. We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our team in developing high quality Java Spring Boot API code, influence the technical design and strategy for new and enhanced API solutions, and help our team progress toward our long-term cloud enablement vision.
The ideal candidate is an experienced software engineer who is fluent in Java, passionate about technology, and has a background in developing microservices and RESTful APIs. This role will be central to the mentorship, growth, and development of the team’s junior developers. A passion for mentorship and leadership is just as important in this role as a passion for technology.

Role
•\tTechnical expert and leader of a high-performing scrum team
•\tProvide technical expertise in the building of roadmaps to enhance and scale our Enterprise Shared Services products
•\tDrive architecture and design decisions, conducting proof of concepts as required
•\tLeverage technical expertise to analyze complex problems and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive solutions
•\tLead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence
•\tMentor and guide new and less-experienced team members
•\tDesign and implement API functionality while adhering to Mastercard standards, processes, and best practices
•\tDrive adoption of technology standards and review code, test, and automation work of team members
•\tIntroduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines
•\tAct as a technical leader in team prioritization discussions with Product Owner and stakeholders
•\tDrive code/design/process trade-off discussions within the team when required
•\tDrive blameless post-mortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings
•\tEncourage peers to share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity
•\tIdentify opportunities to improve an overall process and trim waste

All About You:
•\tHave advanced skills in writing secure code in Java and are familiar with secure coding standards and vulnerability management
•\tHave skills in building applications using open frameworks to achieve reuse and reduce development times, including extensive experience using Spring Boot
•\tUnderstand internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to write interoperable and performant code
•\tHave skills to document and coach team on development practices and coding guidelines (branching, peer reviews, library use, logging, test-driven development, error handling)
•\tUnderstand use cases for advanced design patterns to implement efficient code
•\tHave skills to undertake a technical review of code across applications and their dependencies to look for anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring
•\tUnderstand and elaborate technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritization discussions with stakeholders to improve the run experience
•\tUnderstand system architecture to lead design discussions and decisions (database, compute, network, storage)
•\tHave skills to understand customer journeys and ensure a Mastercard good experience by continuously reducing Mean time to mitigate for incidents and ensuring high availability
•\tUnderstand principles, best practices, and industry-standard tooling for CICD to drive automation and enhancements of release workflows and pipelines
•\tAble to configure rules and build automation for code with vulnerability scanning and software composition analysis using standard tools (Sonar, Checkmarx)
•\tHave skills to conduct various performance tests (load, spike, breakpoint, endurance) to understand application/service limits and behaviors
•\tExperience working in an Agile environment
•\tStrong communication skills -- both verbal and written – and strong relationship, collaboration skills and organizational skills

Preferred Skills:
•\tExperience working with at least one cloud vendor (AWS, Azure)
•\tPayments industry experience a huge plus

Corporate Security Responsibility

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position must:

•\tAbide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
•\tEnsure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
•\tReport any suspected information security violation or breach, and
•\tComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

Mastercard is an inclusive equal 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. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment 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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $138,000 - $221,000 USD