Lead Software Engineer

Job Description Summary Job Summary: ============================= Providing Innovative, Secure, and Reliable Switching Solutions is the lifeblood of Mastercard Core Products, we are currently seeking a passionate, collaborative, and experienced software engineer to join the Payment Networks Team. Are you a collaborator capable of communicating effectively with Business and IT stakeholders across all organizational levels? Are you an innovator who embraces, adopts, and studies the latest technology to solve challenging business problems? Are you a leader who inspires the team to think “out of the box” and effectively communicates across all levels of the organization? If this describes you, Mastercard wants to talk to you about the creation of our new agile development team that will support Network Access solutions within the Payment Networks organization. About the

ROLE: ===================================

• Ensure quality of one or more application codebases and alignment with development standards.
• Applies technical capabilities within own discipline to coach and develop junior employees.
• Assists in vendor assessment and evaluates and recommends software development tools.
• Designs highly complex applications, interfaces and integration with a modest number of systems.
• Responsible for performance engineering of the enterprise software architecture, and providing functional guidance, advice, and/or training to other application developers.
• Group-wide and external public speaking and other communications conveying domain level directions
• Researching and evaluating tools to support domain-specific needs.
• Significant advanced code development, commitment of code/review of pull-requests, and modest day-to-day support duties.

About You: ===================================

• Engineering experience, preferably in high volume, low latency transaction processing systems (such as payments transaction switching, high frequency trading systems or global real-time event streaming systems etc.)
• Experience with various coding languages Java, Go, C++,ESQL, etc.
• Delivered scalable products through a CI/CD pipeline deploying on-prem or in a public cloud infrastructure.
• Ensure quality across the full stack via rigorous CI/CD practices in all aspects of the SDLC (Builds, Test, and Deploy).
• Strong writing and verbal communication skills Preferred Skills: ===================================
• Experienced in event driven systems (Apache Kafka, NATS, etc)
• Experienced in building platforms with Microservice architecture and RESTful APIs.
• Experience using cloud-native approaches running on Linux, leveraging Spring Boot
• Experience with virtualization like Cloud Foundry(PCF), Kubernetes (PKS), Docker etc.
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline creation via Jenkins

EDUCATION: BS or MS in Computer Science 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.