Lead Software Engineer - Java Backend

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 - Java Backend

Lead Software Engineer
Overview
Mastercard Commercial Solutions provides capabilities such as expense management, reporting, virtual cards, and acceptance to our issuers driving visibility and actionable insights.
We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Commercial Platform Engineering organization in our vibrant Pune Tech Hub.
Role
This role involves working with a team of talented developers to develop high performance, high volume solutions. You will be responsible for:
• Designing and implementing Java-based utilities for the Program.
• Develop high-quality, secure, scalable and maintainable software solutions.
• Apply best practices for automated testing, automated code quality, automated delivery & automated monitoring.
• Mentor the senior & junior engineers on your team through sound technical advice, UML documentation & code reviews
• Collaborate with Architects, Leads, Developers & Product Owners to ensure business value is delivered in a timely manner
• Advocating Mastercard Engineering Principles, Builders’ Enablement development standards, and Corporate Security guidelines
• Act as SME (Subject Matter Expert) for one or more initiatives to deliver an efficient and secure SDLC in Mastercard from the initial ideation to production deployment
• Work as part of a cross-functional and geographically distributed team to make our developer experience awesome
• Ensure that Developer Experience is central to everything we do
• Ensure that the team adheres to Mastercard Engineering Principles, and Corporate Security guidelines
• Actively participate as a member of the Software Engineering Guild sharing your knowledge, best practices, ideas, and passion for technology
Skills
• Expert level development proficiency in Java JDK 8 or higher, Javascript is a plus
• Knowledge of Tomcat, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate, REST microservices architecture.
• Experience with SQL, Multi-threading, Message Queuing & Distributed Systems
• Experience with Design Patterns and Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Experience with one or more Cloud platforms with a good working knowledge of data, security, Cloud APIs, virtual networking, and the capabilities and offerings of the various providers (e.g., Azure, AWS, and GCP)
• Expertise in Junit or other automated unit testing frameworks
• Knowledge of Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk and other logging, alerting and monitoring solutions
• Fluent in the use of Git
• Ability to define & implement best practices regarding Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (Ci/CD) pipelines.
• Good working knowledge of container technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience working in a regulated environment with secure software development practices (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR) is a plus
• Experience in performance testing with JMeter, Gatling and similar tools
• Experience with contributing to open source projects is a plus
• Experience automating processes to improve developer efficiency
Education
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar discipline

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.