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 sector. We power payments and provide products and services for individuals and industries all around the world. Our people, technology, data and brand provide the capabilities that drive our success. We believe in connecting people to priceless possibilities.

As a company, we know that our success is driven by the skills, experience, integrity and mindset of the talent we hire. By building an inclusive, world-class culture, our employees have once-in-a-career opportunities to be a part of teams that have a greater impact on our community and our world. We invite you to join our team to find out how you too can start something priceless.

Overview

Mastercard’s Corporate Solutions team is a rapidly growing organization with responsibilities to deliver innovative solutions to help our customers grow and expand their business. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this dynamic team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. We are seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer to lead a cross-functional development team within the Corporate Solutions organization.

Role:

•\tHands on Building performant, scalable and secure web applications.
•\tProvide leadership, guidance and direction on systems and web application architecture and system design.
•\tGuide and coach less experienced engineers.
•\tFocus on user-centered design.
•\tSpearhead design, technical and code reviews.
•\tImplement coding standards and approaches.
•\tPromote an Agile approach to software development. Insist on a culture of continuous integration and delivery, automation and minimizing blast radius.
•\tCollaborate with teams across the organization to mitigate risk and resolve dependencies.


All About You:
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•\tSuccessfully designed and developed externally facing web applications utilizing modern single page application frameworks. Angular and React JS experience preferred.
•\tDeep understanding of JavaScript and it’s benefits and quirks.
•\tSuccessfully designed and developed cloud ready REST APIs utilizing industry best practices.
•\tDeep understanding of Cloud Architecture and it’s benefits and quirks.
•\tDeep understanding of Messaging frameworks and event-based architecture and it’s benefits and quirks.
•\tPossess an understanding of multi-tier web development; including knowledge of server-side technologies and databases.
•\tUnderstanding of web application optimizations such as progressive web apps, web workers, browser repaints and reflows, performance and memory optimizations, debugging memory leaks, caching, flame graphs.
•\tExperience and knowledge of authentication and authorization workflows using concepts like JWT.
•\tHave proficiency in Quality engineering and experience working with Quality leads to define processes and technologies.
•\tPassion for improving code quality using approaches such as unit and end to end testing.
•\tDeep knowledge of Continuous Integration and Delivery and toolsets that provide this ability.
•\tUnderstanding of agile principles and methodologies and experience implementing and adapting them to fit the team’s needs.
•\tUse and understand Git based source control systems.
•\tProven experience building ADA and WCAG compliant web applications.
•\tTech Stack: Java 11+, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, SQL and no SQL databases, REST API, Angular 11+

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.