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 EngineerWho is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview
Mastercard Send is looking for a Lead Software Engineer, who will be instrumental in defining, designing and developing innovative solutions for the platform. You will own complex problems, drive prioritization, foster a culture of proactive problem-solving, and partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to deliver exceptional products and customer experiences

Role
Own complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution
Write code to build and enhance applications/services and promote code-reviews, code scanning, and other standard development practices to deliver high-quality artifacts to production.
Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements
Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners
Identify opportunities and build roadmaps to enhance primary service/function
Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed.
Drive seamless integration across all connected services to meet end-user expectations
Drive blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings
Introduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines
Advocate for engineering principles outside of current organization/platform
Provide development and architecture guidance to team members
Build relationships and effective partnerships across organizations
Write and evaluate recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one's accomplishments
Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar
Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence
Encourage staff to share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity

All about You/Experience
10+ years of working experience in Java programming language, distributed systems – databases, caches, message brokers etc.
Experience in designing and implementing, various resiliency patterns, including circuit breakers, bulkheads, retries with backoff, timeouts, and fallbacks, to ensure system stability and graceful degradation in the face of failures.
Strong understanding of database technologies, such as Oracle, database architecture, query optimization, and performance tuning. Proven experience in designing and implementing efficient connection pooling strategies.
Experience in Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization
Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana)
Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
Experience working in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science engineering.

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.

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