Senior 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

Senior Software Engineer (DevOps) Real Time PaymentsOverview

Mastercard's Real Time Payments team is looking for an enthusiastic Senior Software Engineer with DevOps focus to work on our RTP Global Product. RTP is part of the payment rails critical infrastructure of a country and operates in 9 countries with a 20 year pedigree of evolution.

We see DevOps as a collection of philosophies, practices and tooling that enable the quick delivery of high-quality software. An ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and a desire to continuously improve their own skills and the people around them. Together, you will be part of a high performing team who work together to deliver complex projects through agile methodologies.

Role

We demonstrate 'Mastercard values every day – create value, grow together, move fast, & do the right thing. As a Senior Software Engineer at Mastercard, you are expected to carry out the following general duties:

• Work collaboratively on complex problems which have dependencies across services.
• Design and develop solutions to meet the business requirements/enhancements.
• Help make our engineering teams more effective and efficient optimizing the SDLC.
• Identify opportunities for automation in tasks and software delivery.
• Help drive our engineering culture through mentoring, assisting peers and a relentless focus on developer experience. Participate in the Software Engineering Guild and special interest groups.
• Participate in architectural design reviews, troubleshooting, pair programming and supporting related teams.
• Utilise internal IaaS, PaaS, & SaaS tooling and contribute improvements.
• Work in a Scrum team with internal customers and stakeholders distributed globally.

Experiences & Skills – Essential

• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and associated tooling such as Jenkins.
• Strong experience using critical thinking to solve a range of technical challenges.
• Experience across the full SDLC.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Groovy and Bash and an appreciation of Object-oriented programming (OOP).
• Experience with Git version control, branching strategies and dependency management (e.g. Maven).
• Experience in a cloud-based environment (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Experience with containerization tools and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Experiences & Skills – Desirable

• Experience with Java (Spring Boot) applications.
• Experience & hands on knowledge of Unix/Linux.
• Experience with automated test infrastructure.
• Experience of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
• Experience with static code analysis & security scanning pipelines and associated tooling.
• Experience designing and implementing centralised monitoring solutions including logging, monitoring, alerting.
• Experience with building zero downtime solutions, including blue/green deployments.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or Management Information Systems or equivalent work experience.
• 6-10 years of working experience as a DevOps engineer and experience with Software 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.