Lead Software Engineer, Mastercard
Global payments technology company
Open for applications
Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- It is not expected that any single candidate would have expertise across all these areas
- Has experience and pattern-recognition to understand the application of new programming languages, frameworks, and libraries to achieve desired product outcomes
- Has skills to document and coach team on the development practices and coding guidelines
- Has skills to undertake a technical review of code across applications and their dependencies to drive consistent coding practices and standards, identify vulnerabilities or risks, and provide coaching and feedback to other developers
- Understands and elaborates technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritization and trade-off discussions with stakeholders; understands system architecture to plan for platform and infrastructure capacity
- Has skills to implement and verify all quality and operational gates during software promotion to production
- Has skills to analyze data retention and regulatory needs to provide scalable data architecture solutions applying standard patterns and techniques
- Understands continuous integration and continuous delivery concepts and practices. Is able to lead the automation of build, test, and deployment tasks where processes and applications are designed upfront with automation in mind
- Has skills to undertake infrastructure and deployment automation using industry-standard tooling; understands Platform-as-a-Service to build applications that run on standardized application platforms and deploy specifications
- Uses advanced knowledge to guide others on a suite of tests focusing on end-user experience for multiple users, performance under load and peak, and other resiliency and capacity scenarios; conducts performance analysis of production data for ongoing assessment and tuning of performance test approaches
- Has the ability to develop and document test strategy following Mastercard testing standards
- Has skills to define, organize, and report on test runs for major, minor, and hotfix releases; has skills to conduct various performance tests (e.g., load, spike, breakpoint, endurance)
- Has skills to evaluate different test automation frameworks and set up test data, service mocks and environments to simulate production-like conditions
What the job involves
- Software Engineers at Mastercard design and code artificial intelligence, cloud, and machine learning platforms that provide mission-critical insights to many of the world’s leading organizations and governments
- As a Software Engineer, you will deliver these products and solutions with speed and agility as part of a small team
- This will involve developing high-performing, highly scalable software solutions and products for some of the world’s top brands
- Specific tasks vary depending on the project and the business unit that you join in
- Own complex problems with dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution
- Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level
- 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
- Introduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines
- Provide development and architecture guidance to team members
Our take
Mastercard is in the global payments business, and operates the world's fastest payments processing network. Its products and solutions have become central to everyday commerce across the world, in activities ranging from shopping and travelling to running businesses.
As the economy has become more and more digitised, Mastercard has been a leading player in helping businesses and individuals across the globe embrace card payments and digital banking. One of the world's largest companies, its revenue has seen consistent gain in the last 20 years.
The challenge for modern payments companies is that payments are always changing, as seen in the astronomical rise of contactless payments over the last decade. Mastercard's acquisition of blockchain systems, and an overall focus on leveraging its technology towards a digital economy, has placed the company in good stead to keep up to date with current trends, like cryptocurrency, in the digitised payments world.
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Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Trust - integrity, respect, openness
- Agility - urgency and value through innovation
- Partnership - working as one team for the benefit of all
- Initiative - taking bold and thoughtful actions
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
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Founders
Michael Miebach
(CEO, not founder)Has served in a variety of roles at the company, including President and CPO. Currently Board Member at IBM, Accion, the World Resources Institute, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, and the Metropolitan Opera. They are also a Trustee of USCIB.
People progressing
Joined as VP in 2008, promoted 4 times in 11 years to their current position of Executive Vice President.
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