Senior Software Engineer - Java Back End

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 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.

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Senior Software Engineer - Java Back End

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.
The Account Management Services team develops new capabilities for Mastercard's fraud prevention platform. We protect cardholders / card issuers and aim to eradicate credit card fraud. Our industry-leading platform processes billions of transactions per month. To enable us to uphold the high standard of these applications we are looking for out-of-the-box thinkers to play a critical role in the upkeep and continual health of these products.
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to play a critical role in the delivery of new product capabilities.
Role
• Work with a team of talented engineers to develop high performance, high volume Java applications.
• Deliver solutions by providing direct development of software functionality.
• Comprehend user stories to understand task items per story in the context of development and testing (unit, functional, integration, and regression)
• Work closely with technical leads, testers, business & system analysts to define features and user stories.
• Assistance with production support issues by acting as point-of-contact and subject matter expert in resolving incidents and problem tickets.
All About You
• Overall, 6-9 years of career experience into Java Development
• Proficiency with Java SDK 11 or greater
• Experience in Front End Angular will be advantageous
• Has ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., C, C+, C#, Java, JavaScript, COBOL, SQL)
• Familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT)
• Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices
• Apply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx ) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity
• Understands and builds test code at unit level, service level, and integration level to ensure code and functional coverage
• Understands the use of basic design patterns (e.g., factory, adaptor, singleton, composite, observer, strategy, inversion of control)
• Understands requirement analysis being essential part of delivering value to our customers and partners and participate in elaboration, prioritization, and effort estimation
• Understands different SDLC practices (Waterfall/Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) and the delivery situations they are used for
• Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)
• Familiar with different application patterns to implement different types of business processes (e.g., APIs, event-driven-services, batch-services, web-applications, big data)
• Understands Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization
• Understands functional and non-functional testing types to elaborate and estimate test efforts
• Considerate, polite, fun-loving, collaborative
• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and have the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment.
• Experience of Tomcat, shell scripting, JSON, multi-threading, Maven, Linux, SQL, Pivotal, Kafka and Spring framework tech stack
• Expertise with Eclipse or IntelliJ and ability to compile, deploy and execute code artefacts
• Experience with cloud software development (PCF)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

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.