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

All About Us
MasterCard is a technology company in the global payments business. We connect consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses worldwide and enable them to use secure and convenient electronic forms of payment.

Join the industry’s most passionate, motivated & engaged global team - Our employees are encouraged to drive innovation every day in support of a more connected world – A World Beyond Cash.

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\tOverview

•\tBeen the victim of credit card fraud and thought, “Vengeance!” Yeah, we get it.
•\tWant to feel your spine tingle by thwarting credit card fraudsters across the globe?
•\tInterested in creating “That’s the stuff!” software for combating scammers?

The Transaction Security team develops new products for Mastercard's fraud prevention platform. We protect cardholders / card issuers and aim to eradicate credit card fraud. Our industry-leading bastion of defense processes billions of transactions per month with execution times literally 10X faster than you can blink. The Consultant Software Engineer will play a critical role in creating new product functionality within this platform including world-class backend and consumer-facing features.



Role

•\tEnsures Code Design and its Quality for Enterprise Application
•\tDesigns highly complex applications, interfaces and integration with a modest number of systems
•\tResponsible for performance engineering of the enterprise software architecture, and providing functional guidance, advice, and/or training to other application developers
•\tResponsible for Modest advanced code development, code review and day-to-day support duties
•\tResearching and evaluating tools to support domain-specific needs
•\tDevelop technical work products and own solution design.
•\tTechnically lead project through all stages of the project life cycle, including requirements understanding & analysis, estimation, design, development and acceptance testing
•\tChart out development strategy / approach with correct gating criteria (Definition of done) for moving code from one environment to next, until production.
•\tReview production monitoring tool and practices to ensure issues are addressed proactively.
•\tSetup and keep enhancing coding guidelines/practices. Ensure its adherence through regular reviews with team.
•\tTechnically coach team members to ensure optimal quality, performance and security parameters.
•\tAssist with production support issues by acting as a subject matter expert in resolving incidents and problem tickets.


All About You

•\tConsiderate, polite, fun-loving, collaborative (cf. “Bob Sutton, 2007”).
•\tDeep knowledge of software development processes including agile processes
•\tHands on experience in UI development using Angular JS
•\tExperience with the design and development of complex, multi-tier software solutions
•\tDatabase experience including Oracle and advanced SQL scripting
•\tExperience integrating vendor and open source products into an overall system
•\tAbility to coordinate, interact with, and lead cross departmental teams.
•\tExperience in planning work and leading a small group of developers
•\tAbility to make decisions without all information.
•\tAbility to white-board solutions during discussions, and develop decision trees, flow charts and simple wireframes to prove a concept (Visio, PPT, DOC)
•\tPreferably professional experience in financial services, cards, payments or another related field
•\tAble to mentor peers and guide less experienced Team members

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.