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

Overview

Connect (User-Access) Team is a dedicated collection of self-organizing, high performing, interdependent, co-located individuals representing different functional roles with all the necessary skills to create the foundational security capabilities for application teams. This team leads with mission to provide overall stewardship of enterprise grade application architecture & design within the context of holistic software development. This includes driving the architecture & design decisions and building consensus around it. The team leads the exploration in software architecture & technology innovations along with enabling excellence in overall team with design-for-peformance mindset.

Are you a collaborator capable of communicating effectively with Business and IT stakeholders across all organizational levels, leading scale?

Are you an innovator who embraces, adopts, and studies the latest technology to solve challenging business problems and address growing customer needs?

If this describes you, Mastercard wants to talk to you about an opportunity to work with our Connect (User-Access) team.

We are looking for a seasoned engineer who is passionate about performance engineering with a constant focus on improving system quality.

Responsibilities

•\tDesign, configure, and execute performance tests and drive resolution of failures
•\tCreate performance measurements such as requests per second, P95 and P99 response latency, query performance, concurrency, and system utilization
•\tDig into Java code, databases, middleware, and vendor software to identify performance bottlenecks and resolve them
•\tImprove the performance environment with your own code, automation, and external tools
•\tApply technical ability to coach and develop junior engineers
•\tDeliver department and external presentations sharing results with stakeholders
•\tParticipate in requirements discussion, test planning, test data creation and execution of testing plan in adherence with MasterCard standards, processes and best practices.
•\tWork with project team to meet scheduled due dates, while identifying emerging issues and recommending solutions for problems and independently perform assigned tasks.
•\tDesign and develop test automation scenarios to validate system to system interfaces and complete software solutions (for API and UI tests)
•\tTranslate complex system requirements into test requirements and testing methods
•\tIdentify and implement complex automation efforts, including refactoring of automation code where needed
•\tOwn responsibility for performance defect management and oversight and escalation of issues discovered during the testing phase

All About You

•\tStrong software engineering experience writing applications using Java Spring Boot framework
•\tStrong experience debugging performance issues with APM tools (i.e. Dynatrace, Splunk, Jprofiler, and JMH)
•\tStrong experience optimizing DB queries in PostgreSQL and Oracle
•\tStrong experience writing jMeter scripts and running in load generation tools (i.e. BlazeMeter)
•\tExperience with Payments industry (i.e. ISO 8583 messaging, 4-party model, and payment applications)
•\tSystematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
•\tTime/project management, workload prioritization, knowledge sharing and a passion to learn/take on challenges is a must
•\tSelf-motivated demonstrating strong organizational and listening skills; and very detail oriented with the ability to carry out assigned tasks with minimal supervision
•\tStrong verbal and written communications skills
•\tAppetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. Be curious about new technology, infrastructure, and practices to scale our architecture and prepare for future growth
•\tWillingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team

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.