Job Description

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

Software Engineer I

As a Software Engineer, you will be:
- Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions
- 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.
- Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices

Responsibilities:
- Participate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholders
- Estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements
- Automate build, operate, and run aspects of software
- Drive code/design/process trade-off discussions within their team when required
- Drive integration of services focusing on customer journey and experience
- Perform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product owners
- Understands operational and engineering experience and actively works to improve experience and metrics in the ownership area
- Identify opportunities to improve an overall process and trim waste

Education:
•Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or Management Information Systems or equivalent work experience.

Knowledge / Experience:
•Good knowledge and understanding of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies is required.
•Must demonstrate MC Core Competencies.
•Up to 3 years of experience in software engineering field.

Skills/ Abilities:
•Must be high-energy, detail-oriented and proactive with the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment.
•Must provide the necessary skills to have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation with a willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities.
•Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written – with strong relationship, collaborative skills and organizational skills.
•Ability to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team.

About You:

- Overall, 2-5 years of career experience into Java Development
- Has ability to write secure code in Java (11 or higher) and familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management
- Efficient in Java, Spring, SpringBoot, JPA, Angular, SQL
- Experience in Front End Angular will be advantageous
- Expertise with Eclipse or IntelliJ and ability to compile, deploy and execute code artefacts
- Experience with cloud software development (PCF)
- Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)
- Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors
- Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices
- Has skills in test driven and behavior driven development (TDD and BDD) to build just enough code and collaborate on the desired functionality
- Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization
- Has skills to author test code with lots of smaller tests followed by few contract tests at service level and fewer journey tests at the integration level (Test Pyramid concept)
- Has skills to collaborate with team and business stakeholders to estimate requirements (e.g., story pointing) and prioritize based on business value
- Understands how to build robust tests to minimize defect leakage by performing regression, performance, deployment verification, and release testing
- Has skills to conduct product demos and co-ordinate with product owners to drive product acceptance signoffs
- 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.