Lead Software Engineer - Java, Springboot, REST API, Kubernetes, Cloud platform

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 Engineer - Java, Springboot, REST API, Kubernetes, Cloud platform

Job Description Summary
Overview

The Mastercard Software Builders Experience (MSBX) has an exciting opportunity for a Lead Software Engineer. We are part of Mastercard’s Team ONE (Operations, Network and Employee Digital Experience) empowering 6000+ Engineers around the globe. We are responsible for creating a great developer experience enabling engineering teams to deliver innovative payment solutions for hundreds of millions of customers. We build and operate a holistic set of services and tooling for:

· Cloud agnostic Declarative provisioning of infrastructure and application resources
· Standard CI/CD Pipelines, Developer Tooling & Environments
· Application Frameworks & Bootstrapping

Our services enable Mastercard engineering teams to focus on delivering business value from ideation to market. The ideal candidate will help Mastercard developers efficiently build, test, and deliver secure, quality code.

Role

This role involves working with a team of talented developers to develop high performance, high volume solutions. You will be responsible for:

• Design and implement microservice capabilities for the Program in Java, Go and/or Python
• Develop high-quality, secure, scalable and maintainable software solutions.
• Apply best practices for automated testing, automated code quality, automated delivery & automated monitoring.
• Mentor the senior & junior engineers on your team through sound technical advice, UML documentation & code reviews
• Collaborate with Architects, Leads, Developers & Product Owners to ensure business value is delivered in a timely manner
• Advocating Mastercard Engineering Principles, Builders’ Enablement development standards, and Corporate Security guidelines
• Be the SME for one or more initiatives to deliver an efficient and secure SDLC in Mastercard from the initial ideation to production deployment
• Work as part of a cross-functional and geographically distributed team to make our developer experience awesome
• Ensure that Developer Experience is central to everything we do
• Ensure that the team adheres to Mastercard Engineering Principles, Builders Enablement Development standards, and Corporate Security guidelines
• Actively participate as a member of the Software Engineering Guild sharing your knowledge, best practices, ideas, and passion for technology
About you
Skills
• Proficiency in OOP/OOAD with Java JDK 8 or higher. Proficiency in Go and/or Python is a plus.
• Knowledge of Tomcat, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate, REST microservices architecture.
• Experience with SQL, Multi-threading, Message Queuing & Distributed Systems
• Experience with Design Patterns and Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Experience with one or more Cloud platforms with a good working knowledge of availability zones, regions, security, Cloud APIs, virtual networking, and the capabilities and offerings of the various providers (e.g., Azure, AWS, and GCP)
• Expertise in Junit or other automated unit testing frameworks
• Knowledge of Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus or other alerting and monitoring solutions
• Fluent in the use of Git, Jenkins
• Ability to define & implement best practices regarding Continuous Delivery / Deployment pipelines.
• Good working knowledge of container technologies
• Experience working in a regulated environment with secure software development practices (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR)
• Experience in performance testing with JMeter, Gatling and similar tools
• Experience with building upon and contributing to innersource projects (e.g. CI/CD, Shared libraries)
• Experience automating processes to improve developer efficiency
• DevSecOps/CI-CD, Site Reliability experience for distributed systems is an advantage

Other
• Must be self-motivated and a team-player operating in a high performance environment

Education
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Electrical or an equivalent Engineering stream

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.