Software Engineer II - Cross Border Services

Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Software Engineer II - Cross Border Services

Overview:
Who is Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments sector. We power payments and provide products and services for individuals and industries all around the world. Our people, technology, data and brand provide the capabilities that drive our success. We believe in connecting people to priceless possibilities.

As a company, we know that our success is driven by the skills, experience, integrity and mindset of the talent we hire. By building an inclusive, world-class culture, our employees have once-in-a-career opportunities to be a part of teams that have a greater impact on our community and our world. We invite you to join our team to find out how you too can start something priceless.

In addition to our traditional payments portfolio, Mastercard is aggressively expanding into new payment flow and leveraging the digital and connected world of people and economies to deliver faster, reliable and more efficient propositions to make payments - send or receive money.

The Cross Border program is part of the wider Disbursement Remittances business that we are looking to expand at a compounded rate of 50% per year for the next 5 years. We are building solutions to enable payments in an any-to-any format - anyone, anywhere can send or receive money using any channel - money exchanges, banks, digital wallets, cards or fintech apps - providing a seamless and unified experience for both individuals and business to move money.

We are looking for a passionate, innovative and experienced engineers with a proven track record in leading the evolution of software products and their implementation in various markets - comfortable both working hands-on as well as guiding and mentoring a team of engineers and critically always challenging the status quo and pushing and driving the technology roadmap to ensure that the solutions leverage technology to the maximum extent.


Role:

As a Software Engineer, you will be:
- Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions
- Work with a team of talented engineers to develop high performance, high volume Java applications
- Deliver solutions by providing direct development of software functionality
- Comprehend user stories to understand task items per story in the context of development and testing (unit, functional, integration, and regression)
- Work closely with technical leads, testers, business system analysts to define features and user stories.
- Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices

Responsibilities:
- Participate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholders
- Estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements
- Automate build, operate, and run aspects of software
- Drive code/design/process trade-off discussions within their team when required
- Drive integration of services focusing on customer journey and experience
- Perform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product owners
- Understands operational and engineering experience and actively works to improve experience and metrics in the ownership area
- Identify opportunities to improve an overall process and trim waste


About You:

- Overall, 4-6 years of career experience into Java Development
- Has ability to write secure code in Java (11 or higher) and familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management
- Efficient in Java, Spring, SpringBoot, JPA, Angular, SQL
- Experience in Front End Angular will be advantageous
- Expertise with Eclipse or IntelliJ and ability to compile, deploy and execute code artefacts
- Experience with cloud software development (PCF)
- Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)
- Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors
- Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices
- Has skills in test driven and behavior driven development (TDD and BDD) to build just enough code and collaborate on the desired functionality
- Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization
- Has skills to author test code with lots of smaller tests followed by few contract tests at service level and fewer journey tests at the integration level (Test Pyramid concept)
- Has skills to collaborate with team and business stakeholders to estimate requirements (e.g., story pointing) and prioritize based on business value
- Understands how to build robust tests to minimize defect leakage by performing regression, performance, deployment verification, and release testing
- Has skills to conduct product demos and co-ordinate with product owners to drive product acceptance signoffs
- Strong verbal and written communication skills

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.