Senior Software Engineer-1

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

Senior Software Engineer-1

Who is 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.

Overview
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence represents the next phase in the advancement of our digital transformation and is a significant evolution for MasterCard. We continue to evolve our Data Science and AI strategy to support aggressive growth plans, and we are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the AI/ML Workbench team. This position requires a working knowledge of what it takes to stand up on-prem platforms and services (such as Kubernetes) and the importance of secure design and data privacy.


Role
In this role you will be working with technologies and concepts such as Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Python, Golang, software defined networking, GPU compute, data privacy to support delivery of AI/ML tooling and services to our customers.

A Senior Software Engineer will:
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
Report status and manage risks within their primary application/service
Drive integration of services focusing on customer journey and experience
Perform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product owners
Understands operational and engineering experience, actively works to improve experience and metrics in ownership area
Develop complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems
Drive adoption of technology standards and opinionated frameworks, and review coding, test, and automation work of team members
Mentor and guide new and less-experienced team members
Identify opportunities to improve an overall process and trim waste
Share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity


All About You
Technical Qualifications

It is not expected that any single candidate would have expertise across all these areas:
Experience working in projects across functions within and outside of IT (within local country)
Has ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., C, C+, C#, Java, Javascript) and familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management
Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)
Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to write interoperable and performant code
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)
Apply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity
Has skills to collaborate with team and business stakeholders to estimate requirements (e.g., story pointing) and prioritize based on business value
Has skills to elaborate and estimate non-functional requirements, including security (e.g., data protection, authentication, authorization), regulatory, and performance (SLAs, throughput, transactions per second)
Has skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines, and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD using industry standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, AWS/Azure pipelines, XL Release, others).
Has skills to understand, report, and optimize delivery metrics to continuously improve upon them (e.g., velocity, throughput, lead time, defect leakage, burndown)
Has skills to document and drive definition-of-done for requirements to meet both business and operational needs
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
Has skills to Understands customer journeys and ensure a Mastercard good experience by continuously reducing Mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for incidents and ensuring high availability (99.95% as a starting point)

Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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.