Overview :

The Mastercard Merchant Acceptance Program is looking for a Lead Software Development Engineer to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.

Merchant Acceptance Program consists of products & solutions that aim to increase Mastercard's acceptance footprint and improving quality of card holder experience at the point of interaction.

Role :

- Work as a technical lead to deliver end-to-end product development.

- Full Stack Development using Microservices, Messaging/Event Driven Frameworks, CI/CD on a Cloud Native environment.

- Ensure benchmarks are met on quality, performance, info security and other NFRs.

- Guide and mentor teams effectively as per needs. Train developers on the technologies needed.

- Communicate effectively and coordinate with various global groups in MasterCard to ensure success of the projects, including Business Owners, Product Owners, Enterprise Architecture teams, other product teams etc.

- Lead various initiatives for improving automation, defect metrics and overall quality. Conduct various Proofs-of-concept as per technological and business needs.

- Take responsibility for deciding the relevant tools, technologies and patterns that need to be implemented for the service.

All about you :

- 10 to 15 years of experienced hands-on technologist with very strong Object-Oriented Design and clean programming skills using the Java language and the SOLID design principles aimed at creating re-usable, scalable components.

- Passionate about emerging technologies and trends, especially microservices, event driven architecture and modern caching/persistence mechanisms.

- Strong experience in Product Development, Spring Boot framework and Cloud technology in an Agile (SAFe) Development Environment.

- Ability to analyze, conceptualize and create cutting edge technical solutions based on the business needs.

- Extensive experience in the development of online, real time application features.

- Result Oriented Professional.

- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills involving Business Owners, Architecture teams, Development/Test teams, Vendors etc. Ability to guide teams on technology.

- Coordination and organization skills and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders and vendors across locations to ensure success of the project.

- Strong understanding, inclination, and experience of working in an Agile (SaFe) environment.

Knowledge/Experience (preferred) :

- Java [J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA].

- Web [Angular, React, Javascript, jQuery, CSS, HTML].

- Excellent understanding of distributed cache and messaging system.

- Database [Postgres] - well versed in writing efficient and optimized SQL queries.

- Expert in full stack development.

- Experience working in an Agile environment.

- Experience in implementing APIs.

- Discipline of working in a continuous integration.

- Experienced in delivering commercial grade software.

- Has been pro-active in creating better user experience, consumer value proposition.

- Understands gaps in knowledge and has ability to source training online.

Skills/Abilities :

- High energy, can-do attitude, strong desire to succeed.

- Strong Analytical and skills.

- Strong communication skills.

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 Mastercards security policies and practices.

- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed.

- Report any suspected information security violation or breach.

- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercards guidelines.