Lead Software Engineer

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

Our Purpose:
We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Overview:
The Cyber and Intelligence Solutions (C&I) team is responsible for product management and innovative product development of products and services to address the evolving risk & cyber security needs of all of MasterCard’s various customer segments. The C&I team was established with the responsibility to safeguard all aspects of safety and security in payments and have made great strides with new products, services and standards, positively impacting all aspects of our current and future payment eco-system.
Ekata, a Mastercard company, is the global standard in identity verification, providing businesses worldwide the ability to link any digital transaction to the human behind it. Our Ekata Identity Engine, the first and only of its kind, uses complex machine learning to combine features derived from the billions of transactions within our proprietary network and the data from our graph to deliver industry leading risk assessment solutions.
We are looking for a Lead Software Development Engineer to work in our Budapest office, who thrives on designing, coding and maintaining low latency applications on JVM based languages. Our ideal candidate would have experience in building and maintaining microservices in Scala/Clojure and have a strong interest in working with data in a low latency environment.
Your ideal job should be one where you work in a small team and are empowered to make yourself and your team more productive on a daily basis. You should want to be part of a team where your desire to grow and learn are valued and aptly rewarded; where using and contributing to open source are looked upon as an asset; where innovating and executing are core to your teams' beliefs.
In this role You will:
- Be part of a creative and innovative team
- Create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market.
- Lead day to day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs)
- Research on current and upcoming technologies and provide recommendations to Management. Perform PoCs (Proof of Concept) and help team in the selection of Technology.
- Build optimized and scalable code and algorithms
- Technical leadership of development tasks and projects
- Cross-team collaboration and architecture ownership of the products of the team(s)
- Deploy, monitor and maintain microservices
- Independently analyze, propose and develop solutions for the most complex technical problems and issues
- Lead technical design reviews, budget planning, technical roadmap planning
- Communicate closely and effectively with engineering management, leads, and peers to gather and understand requirements, share project status and deal with unexpected issues
- Ensure and enforce the adherence to the standards and procedures that result in an environment compliant with information security policy
- Mentor junior and senior colleauges.
All About You:
- Experience in developing and deploying microservices architectures
- Proven experience with the JVM based languages and projects (e.g. Scala, Clojure, JAVA or similar)
- Relevant senior-level experience in software development (java, Clojure, .Net)
- Experience in containerization technologies – Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience with Amazon Web Services, especially EC2, S3, Elasticsearch, and Kinesis is a plus
- Proficient with software Architecture, design patterns and strong demonstrated experience in building frameworks
- Strong understanding of software development life cycle based on Atlassian platforms (Jira, Confluence)
- Proven ability to write clean code that works, is readable, maintainable and follows best practices and coding standards, on schedule (like OWASP, SOA)
- Mature understanding and technical leadership of OO and functional design, languages, algorithms, data structures, networking, database design and optimization (CAP, CI/CD)
- A philosophy of iteration and continuous improvement (agile, SCRUM)
COVID-19 Considerations
We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together. In many locations, which may change over time, we’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by video or phone. In addition, in some locations, only individuals who have been fully vaccinated will be permitted inside Mastercard offices until further notice.
In the US, Mastercard is a government contractor, which may legally require most Mastercard employees to be vaccinated unless a verified approved medical or religious exemption is granted. Further, we are currently making every effort towards having employees return to work in the office 2 days per week, if that makes sense for their team. Everyone must be vaccinated to enter Mastercard offices at this time. Therefore, we expect all candidates to be vaccinated or to be approved for a medical or religious accommodation prior to commencing work at Mastercard.
In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact [email protected] 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.

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.