Lead Software Engineer (Java, Spring Boot, DevOps)

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.

About Mastercard

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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.

The Authentication Program team is responsible for Master Card's safety and security related product development efforts to protect the integrity of the electronic payment system as well as ensure payments are convenient yet secure. The products are primarily focused on Cyber Security, authentication, fraud prevention, risk mitigation and dispute resolution across all payment channels as well as all stakeholders, issuers, acquirers, merchants, processors, and consumers. The key objectives of the solutions are to prove identity, reduce abandonments, reduce fraud, increase approval rates, and secure the payments ecosystem.

Mastercard software engineering teams leverage Agile development principles, advanced development and design practices, and an obsession over security, reliability, and performance to deliver solutions that delight our customers. We're looking for talented and accomplished Software Engineer to join our SRE team as we develop advanced technologies and applications that are revolutionizing payments, while delivering unparalleled values and customer experience.

About the Opportunity

• Are you passionate about software engineering and operation excellence of cloud-native, real-time, high performant, distributed and vastly scalable applications?
• Do you enjoy seeing the impact your work and code has on a wide range of customers globally?
• Do you thrive in a place where you are continuously learning more while growing your skills and career?
• Do you want to join a Company that offers a competitive benefits-and rewards program that attracts, develops, and retains the most talented employees around the world?

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and tactical leadership to the SRE team. Mentor other team members.
• Drive the architectural design and implementation to build fault tolerant systems with security, resilience, scale and performance
• Enable operations excellence by building tools and capabilities for system and service observability, failure predication and prevention, failure detection and mitigation, as well as operational reliability and efficiency
• Analyze production event and outcome to improve reliability, operability, and customer experience of applications, platforms, functions, and services.
• Have strong ownership of the SRE team's analysis and implementation, deep in the maintenance characteristics, runtime properties and dependencies including hardware, operating system, and build.
• Lead SLI/SLO/SLA and "Error Budget" management.
• Act as an authoritative product and technology SME and decision maker during operations escalation.
• Communicate, collaborate and work effectively in a global environment.

About You

• Obsessed with bringing software engineering principles to infrastructure and operations problems to create and operate highly scalable and reliable applications and systems.
• Passionate about delivering the best customer experience through engineering and operations excellency, focusing on building, and improving resiliency, performance, scale, operability, and automation.
• Expert foundation in algorithms, data structures and core computer science concepts – able to teach/mentor others in their learning
• Hands-on developer / architect who writes high quality, secure code that is modular, functional, and testable.
• Advanced technical skills and experience of Java/JEE with Spring Framework (including Spring Boot), with successfully track record of designing, building, and supporting complex, large scale, and business critical software applications
• Strong analytical and excellent problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Expert in TDD and BDD in the software development processes.
• Proficiency with cloud technologies (IaaS, PaaS, serverless technology, NoSQL databases), micro-service design, CI/CD, DevOps.
• Experience designing scalable fault tolerant platforms that are resilient to infrastructure fail.
• Experience with the strangulation pattern and anti-corruption layers to migrate monolithic systems into independent services.
• Mentor and teacher of new technologies and design patterns.

Preferred Qualifications

• IT Service Management/Operations
• Infrastructure
• Product management
• People management
• AIOPS
• SRE

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
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines