Lead Software Engineer - Java backend, Scala, Cloud and Snowflake

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, Scala, Cloud and Snowflake

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.
Overview:
Mastercard company is seeking a Lead Software Engineer, which serves various clientele such as Merchants, Financial Institutions(Issuer, Acquirer), Digital players to recognize, Subscription as services and identify Card on Files in the respective ecosystems and provide ability to react with confidence. Our solution provides data analytics, visualization & data marketplace capabilities while leveraging cloud-based user interface, micro-services, visualization capabilities, SaaS integrations like Azure AD, Cloud platform like GCP, AWS, Lens, Terraform, File Transfer, Splunk, Dynatrace, SFTP, Cassandra & Snowflake.
Are you motivated by speeding business solutions to market?
Do you want to innovate, using cutting edge technologies on challenging business problems?
Do you want to be part of an innovator that is changing the ecommerce landscape and reinventing the way global merchants and issuers combat fraud through collaboration?
We welcome the challengers and thought leaders. We want agile, creative risk-takers who can address challenges with an open mind, the freedom to innovate and the strength to dominate. Ethoca’s growth is explosive, and only great problem-solvers, collaborators and thinkers can help us take it to the next level. If that sounds like you, keep reading.
Role:
Provide support of applications software through programming, analysis, design, development, and delivery of software solutions. Research alternative technical solutions for changing business needs.
Major Accountabilities:
• Participate in designing highly scalable, fault tolerant, and performant systems in cloud.
• Ensure project implementation(s) and technical delivery are compliant with solution architectural design and best practices.
• Ensure that technical designs and deliveries are aligned with business needs, infrastructure capabilities and security & compliance requirements.
• Evaluate current and emerging technologies via Proof of Concepts or similar.
• Assist with project scoping, sizing, prioritizing, planning, and estimation.
• Identify and mitigate existing business risk(s) associated with solution architecture and technical designs.
• Thrive in a highly collaborative company environment where agility is paramount.
• Stay up to date with new technologies on the front-end and server-side through self-study, blogs, meetups, conferences, etc.
• Provide technical guidance to the project team(s).
• Consult and support project team(s) regarding project implementation.
• Analyse ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Take a holistic approach to problem solving, by connecting the dots during a production event thru the various technology stack that makes up the platform, to optimize mean time to recover
• Explain technical issues and solution strategies to stakeholders.
• Ensure that technical designs and deliveries milestones are accomplished on time.
• Liaise with stakeholders to understand the needs of business
• Finding resilient and reliable solutions to integration challenges with vendors and /or acquired entities, that meet Mastercard's high security and quality standards.
• Strong collaboration skills across disparate technology vendors and business units.
• Setting priorities, objectives, and driving deliverables within global technology domains and sub-domains.
• Engaging with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation, often evaluating new solutions and recommending future business platform system requirements.
All About You:
• Minimum bachelors degree in information technology, Computer Science, or extensive work experience.
• 10+ Years of Hands-on Software development experience.
• 6+ years of experience in Software development using microservices architecture pattern.
• Familiar with DevOps, IT Operations and Application & System Security best practices.
• Demonstrated track record with highly scalable, distributed systems.
• Have strong data analytics knowledge, experience with ETL, Data Modelling & Pattern analysis using ML.
• Extensive experience with databases: Relational & NoSQL
• Success with producing high quality project design deliverables and documentation.
• Deep domain knowledge of Java 8 or Later.
• Strong expertise in Java/J2EE technologies, including Spring Boot, JUnit, Hibernate, Messaging, Web Services, and REST APIs.
• Should have hands on knowledge of Public Cloud Technologies like: Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform(GCP), Amazon Web Services(AWS) and Pivotal Cloud Foundry(PCF).
• Experience in Test-Driven Development(TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development(BDD), focusing on building robust, minimal code to meet functional requirements.
• Should have knowledge of monitoring and alerting tools like, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, DataDog, Dynatrace.
• Extensive experience with User interface development framework(Angular preferred).
• Willing to learn new technology stack and available to support customer & production environments for issue mitigation.
• Need to work with global team and available in different time zones (US, Canada, Dublin, India).
• Self-motivated with the ability to lead projects and initiatives with minimal supervision.
• Familiarity with performance tuning, designing for failure & automation.
• Positive outlook in meeting challenges and working to a high level.
• Excellent written and spoken communication.
• Should have understanding of Scala, Apache Spark and Python Language.
• Middleware technologies like, Apache ActiveMQ, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka etc.
• Proven experience in Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe.
• Good to have - knowledge of Data Pipelines and Snowflake.
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.

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.