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Our Purpose<\/b><\/span>Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we\u2019re 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.<\/span>Title and Summary<\/span>Principal, Software Engineering<\/span>Job Description Summary<\/b>
\n Who is Mastercard?<\/span>Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. 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.<\/span>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.<\/span>Overview:<\/b><\/span>The Transfer Solutions team was created to establish Mastercard as the frontrunner in the fast-evolving real-time payments space, and to position Mastercard to be able to incubate the development of new payment flows. The team is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard\u2019s next generation payment applications \u2013 Domestic, Cross Border and Bill Payments.<\/span>Mastercard seeks to define a world beyond cash. To accelerate this mission, we are committed to building & scaling products & applications that transform payments of any type. Real time payment technology is central to this strategy.<\/span>The Role:<\/b><\/span>What\u2019s it all about and what we expect you to do day to day?<\/span>\u00b7 Own complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution<\/span>\u00b7 Write code to build and enhance applications\/services and promote code-reviews, code scanning, and other standard development practices to deliver high-quality artifacts to production.<\/span>\u00b7 Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements\/enhancements<\/span>\u00b7 Participate and contribute to team\u2019s agile process and decisions. Understand and contribute to Prioritization. Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners<\/span>\u00b7 Identify opportunities and build backlogs to enhance primary service\/function<\/span>\u00b7 Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed.<\/span>\u00b7 Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence. Able to troubleshoot and refactor existing code for exceptional code quality.<\/span>\u00b7 Drive seamless integration across all connected services to meet end-user expectations<\/span>\u00b7 Drive blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings<\/span>\u00b7 Introduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines<\/span>\u00b7 Advocate for engineering principles outside of current organization\/platform<\/span>\u00b7 Provide development and architecture guidance to team members<\/span>\u00b7 Build relationships and effective partnerships across organizations<\/span>\u00b7 Write and evaluate recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one’s accomplishments<\/span>\u00b7 Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar<\/span>\u00b7 Experience working in cross-functional and large projects with globally dispersed development resources<\/span>All About You and What you need to bring:<\/span>\u00b7 Able to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., Java, .NET, JavaScript, SQL)<\/span>\u00b7 Familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management<\/span>\u00b7 Infrastructure as code and cloud first software development knowledge experience preferred.<\/span>\u00b7 Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices. Move the team towards trunk based development<\/span>\u00b7 Apply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx ) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity<\/span>\u00b7 Has skills in test driven and behavior driven development (TDD and BDD) to build just enough code and collaborate on the desired functionality. Ability to keep the full testing pyramid healthy – 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<\/span>\u00b7 Understands the use of basic design patterns (e.g., factory, adaptor, singleton, composite, observer, strategy, inversion of control)<\/span>\u00b7 Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading, all from the gang of four) to implement efficient code<\/span>\u00b7 Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API\/service adoption and commercialization and effort estimation<\/span>\u00b7 Experienced in agile and modern SDLC practices (Scrum\/Kanban\/Continuous Delivery\/DevOps\/Quality engineering) and the delivery situations they are used for<\/span>\u00b7 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)<\/span>\u00b7 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).<\/span>\u00b7 Familiar with different application patterns to implement different types of business processes (e.g., APIs, event-driven-services, batch-services, web-applications, big data)<\/span>\u00b7 Experience in Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization<\/span>\u00b7 Has ability to write code (in languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, Bash, Perl, Groovy) to build automation tasks that are repeatable and efficient<\/span>\u00b7 Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors<\/span>\u00b7 Has skills to conduct product demos and co-ordinate with product owners to drive product acceptance signoffs<\/span>\u00b7 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)<\/span>Corporate Security Responsibility<\/span>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:<\/span>Abide by Mastercard\u2019s security policies and practices;<\/span>Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;<\/span>Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and<\/span>Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard\u2019s guidelines.<\/p>\n

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