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

Senior Software Engineer-2

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
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence represents the next phase in the advancement of our digital transformation and is a significant evolution for MasterCard. We continue to evolve our Data Science and AI strategy to support aggressive growth plans, and we are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the AI/ML Workbench team. This position requires a working knowledge of what it takes to stand up on-prem platforms and services (such as Kubernetes) and the importance of secure design and data privacy.


Role
In this role you will be working with technologies and concepts such as Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Python, Golang, software defined networking, GPU compute, data privacy to support delivery of AI/ML tooling and services to our customers.

A Senior Software Engineer will:
•\tParticipate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholders
•\tEstimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements
•\tAutomate build, operate, and run aspects of software
•\tDrive code/design/process trade-off discussions within their team when required
•\tReport status and manage risks within their primary application/service
•\tDrive integration of services focusing on customer journey and experience
•\tPerform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product owners
•\tUnderstands operational and engineering experience, actively works to improve experience and metrics in ownership area
•\tDevelop complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems
•\tDrive adoption of technology standards and opinionated frameworks, and review coding, test, and automation work of team members
•\tMentor and guide new and less-experienced team members
•\tIdentify opportunities to improve an overall process and trim waste
•\tShare and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity

 
All About You
Technical Qualifications

It is not expected that any single candidate would have expertise across all these areas:
•\tExperience working in projects across functions within and outside of IT (within local country)
•\tHas ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., C, C+, C#, Java, Javascript) and familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management
•\tUnderstands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)
•\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
•\tUnderstands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices
•\tHas skills in test driven and behavior driven development (TDD and BDD) to build just enough code and collaborate on the desired functionality
•\tUnderstands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization
•\tHas skills to author 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)
•\tApply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity
•\tHas skills to collaborate with team and business stakeholders to estimate requirements (e.g., story pointing) and prioritize based on business value
•\tHas skills to elaborate and estimate non-functional requirements, including security (e.g., data protection, authentication, authorization), regulatory, and performance (SLAs, throughput, transactions per second)
•\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, AWS/Azure pipelines, XL Release, others).
•\tHas skills to understand, report, and optimize delivery metrics to continuously improve upon them (e.g., velocity, throughput, lead time, defect leakage, burndown)
•\tHas skills to document and drive definition-of-done for requirements to meet both business and operational needs
•\tUnderstands how to build robust tests to minimize defect leakage by performing regression, performance, deployment verification, and release testing
•\tHas skills to conduct product demos and co-ordinate with product owners to drive product acceptance signoffs
•\tHas skills to Understands customer journeys and ensure a Mastercard good experience by continuously reducing Mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for incidents and ensuring high availability (99.95% as a starting point)

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.

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.