Senior Software Engineer

The Sustainability Solutions team in Vadodara has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to help further grow our organization by enabling teams to enhance and modernize our Sustainability-focused services such as Mastercards Carbon Calculator. This position will be key to growing the global adoption of our services, operating at-scale, and building a high-performing engineering team.

At Mastercard, our industry expertise is enhanced by our commitment to being a force for good in the world and to doing well by doing good. Mastercard relies on our global workforce to help us achieve our goal of building a sustainable, inclusive global economy. The Mastercard Way encourages us, connects us with the behaviors that represent the essence of not only what we do but who we are as an organization. Cultivating an environment for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views and experiences drives a global and collaborative culture of inclusion and sense of belonging.

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. Whether you are a recent graduate or an experienced technologist, were looking for talented software development engineers to develop advanced technologies and applications that are revolutionizing payments.

-Are you passionate about software engineering
-Do you enjoy seeing the impact your code has on a wide range of customers
-Do you want to work for a company that offers above and beyond benefits including paid parental leave, flexible work hours, gift matching, and even volunteer incentives while encouraging your own professional learning and development
-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
-Do you want to join an inclusive culture where employees, in all their diversity, feel valued, respected and who can bring their authentic selves to workLearn more at Mastercard s Corporate Sustainability Report.

Role:

Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions. Define requirements for new applications and customization adhering to MasterCard standards, processes and best practices. Develop, customize, and test applications to integrate to MasterCard s specifications.
Provide leadership, mentoring, and technical training to other team members
Plan, design and develop technical solutions and alternatives to meet business requirements in adherence with MasterCard standards, processes and best practices.
Lead day to day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market.
Accountable for full systems development life cycle including creating high quality requirements documents, use-cases, design and other technical artifacts including but not limited to detailed test strategy/test design, performance benchmarking, release rollout and deployment plans, contingency/back-out plans, feasibility study, cost and time analysis and detailed estimates.
Perform system maintenance, production incident problem management, identification of root cause, remediation of the problems and on-call pager support schedule. Select appropriate technical frameworks and solution delivery methodology. Adapt to the technical artifact templates per the needs of the project and technology. Contribute ideas to help ensure that required standards and processes are in place. Maintain solution and technology road maps.
Research and evaluate current and upcoming technologies and frameworks.
Participate in PoCs (Proof of Concept) and help the Department with selection of Vendor Solutions, Technologies, Methodologies and Frameworks.
Collaborate with Vendor Resources for Support of Products.
Conduct brownbag sessions on new and upcoming technologies, methodologies and application appropriate frameworks. Ensure knowledge transfer of vendor technology to MasterCard staff. Provide technical training to the other team members.
Strong hands on experience on Java backend technologies and designing enterprise systems using - Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST API, RDMS, Messaging Framework (Kafka or equivalent), Junit, REST API integration, Git / Bitbucket version control.

About You:
- 3 to 5+ years of experience in related field.
- 3 to 5+ years of experience in delivering secure solutions in Financial Services Sector is preferred
- Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures and core computer science concepts
- Broad understanding of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies is required
- Evidence of working with object-oriented development and design patterns.
- Strong hands on experience on Java backend technologies and designing enterprise systems using - Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST API, RDMS, Messaging Framework (Kafka or equivalent), Junit, REST API integration, Git / Bitbucket version control
- Strong written and verbal English communications skills.
- Strong analytical and excellent problem solving skills.
- Strong relationship, collaborative skills and organizational skills
- Must provide the necessary skills to have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team
- Proficiency in automation testing of both GUI (using Cypress) and backend microservices (using RESTAssured, Postman for Spring Boot APIs), with integration into CI/CD pipelines supporting blue-green deployment strategies