Software Engineer II

requirements into robust software capabilities while ensuring platform reliability, performance, and engineering excellence. The

ROLE:

• Work as a Transaction Stream team member to deliver end-to-end product validation for Transaction Stream.
• Play a crucial part in helping drive Quality to help build and ship better products.
• Drive test engineering methodologies, Mastercard standards and help build high quality software.
• Leverage Gen AI tools and agents to bring productivity and speed
• Help make Quality as an integral part of the development process.
• Proactively monitor customer insights and production issues to seek quality feedback and improve processes to enhance quality of the product/capability.
• Drive quality automation and self-service culture as a part of software delivery practices.
• Acts as first-review for project-level reviews, walkthroughs and inspections.
• Communicate effectively and coordinate with various global groups in Master Card to ensure success of the projects, including Business Owners, Product Owners, Enterprise Architecture teams, Other product teams etc.
• Lead various initiatives for improving automation, defect metrics and overall quality.

Conduct various Proofs-of-concept as per technological and business needs All About You: Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.

• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.

(Must)

• Ability to analyze technical requirements systematically and deliver effective engineering solutions.

(Must)

• Experience in software development, unit testing, functional testing, and integration testing.

(Must)

• Strong hands-on experience developing automation frameworks and software solutions using Java.

(Must)

• Experience building, testing, and supporting applications across Microservices, Event-Driven Architectures, and Database platforms.

(Must)

• Experience working with various communication protocols (SFTP, Sockets, HTTPS, RPC, etc.) and CI/CD pipelines.

(Must)

• Working knowledge of payment simulation tools such as T3 (or similar tools) and ISO 8583 payment protocols.

(Must)

• Strong understanding of card payments, transaction processing, message flows, and financial messaging formats.
• Understanding of cloud-native platform architectures and microservices-based application development.

(Preferred)

• Passion for emerging technologies and modern software engineering practices, especially Event-Driven Architecture and modern caching/persistence mechanisms.
• Experience with Digital Native Architecture, Spring Boot, Cloud technologies (preferably Pivotal Cloud Foundry), and Agile (SAFe) development environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with experience collaborating across Product, Architecture, Engineering, Quality, and Vendor teams.
• Ability to provide technical guidance and contribute to engineering best practices across teams.
• Strong coordination and organizational skills with the ability to work effectively across global teams and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience working in Agile (SAFe) environments with a focus on delivering high-quality software solutions.

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. Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them. Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along. Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights. People need financial access; we connect them. Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple. Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way. Governments need greater efficiencies; we help create them. Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers. Retailers want to fight fraud; we provide the tools.