Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack Developer (Java & Angular) (mastercard)

Job Description

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 - Full Stack Developer (Java & Angular)

Role Overview:

As a Software Engineer in Corporate Solutions at Mastercard, you’ll work with modern full-stack development practices and tools to create world-class microservices and web applications. We’re building a global business-to-business (B2B) technology platform to help businesses of all sizes streamline how they manage payments when buying or selling products and services.

You will work in our Mastercard technology hub, which provides a state-of-the-art environment for technology teams to thrive in our collaborative, Agile engineering culture. You will play a key role in how Mastercard transforms the B2B space to standardize, automate, and optimize digital payment efficiency for buyers and sellers.


To excel in this role, you should have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Overall 6-9 years of career experience into development

• Strong fundamentals in OOPS, Database technologies, Querying, Data management/Data warehousing, Cloud technologies.

• Practical understanding of data structures, algorithms, and database fundamentals.

• Proficiency in object-oriented programming language, such as Python, Java, or J2EE.

• Knowledgeable in cloud-native and multi-tiered applications development.

• Understands the fundamental principles behind CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, GitOps, and related best practices.

• Ability to write and maintain scripts for automation, showcasing your commitment to efficiency and innovation.

• Leverage new technologies and approaches to innovating with increasingly large data sets


Responsibilities

• 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

• Automate build, operate, and run aspects of software

• Drive code/design/process trade-off discussions within their team when required

• Report status and manage risks within their primary application/service

• Drive integration of services focusing on customer journey and experience

• Perform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product owners

• Understands operational and engineering experience, actively works to improve experience and metrics in ownership area

• 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 their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity


Experiences

• Has ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., C, C+, C#, Java, JavaScript, Java/Springboot, Angular/Node.js, Python) and familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management

• Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)

• 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

• Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices

• Has skills in test driven and behavior driven development (TDD and BDD) to build just enough code and collaborate on the desired functionality

• Understands 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

• Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization

• Has 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)

• Apply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx ) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity

• Has skills to collaborate with team and business stakeholders to estimate requirements (e.g., story pointing) and prioritize based on business value

• Has skills to elaborate and estimate non-functional requirements, including security (e.g., data protection, authentication, authorization), regulatory, and performance (SLAs, throughput, transactions per second)

• 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, Chef, AWS/Azure pipelines, XL Release, others).

• Has skills to understand, report, and optimize delivery metrics to continuously improve upon them (e.g., velocity, throughput, lead time, defect leakage, burndown)

• Has skills to document and drive definition-of-done for requirements to meet both business and operational needs

• Understands how to build robust tests to minimize defect leakage by performing regression, performance, deployment verification, and release testing

• Has skills to conduct product demos and co-ordinate with product owners to drive product acceptance signoffs

• Has skills to understand customer journeys and ensure a Mastercard good experience by continuously reducing Mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for incidents and ensuring high availability (4 9s)

• Has a natural penchant for Operational Excellence and ensures resiliency SLAs are always met and monitored through KPI dashboards using industry best tools like Domo, Splunk, Mixpanel, Dynatrace etc.

• Strong communication skills - both verbal and written – and strong relationship, collaboration skills and organizational skills

• Ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies, and perform POC to explore best solution for the problem statement

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.