Senior Software Engineer

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 Senior Software Engineer Overview 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. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respect their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results About the Role This is an exciting opportunity for you to join Mastercard and contribute to improving the response time for new applications that support the Authorization payment network. This position is on the performance engineering team that partners with development teams on optimization and testing. We are looking for an experienced engineer that is passionate about performance with a constant focus on improving system quality. Role • Design, configure, and execute performance tests and drive resolution of failures • Create performance measurements such as requests per second, P95 and P99 response latency, query performance, concurrency, and system utilization • Dig into Java code, databases, middleware, and vendor software to identify performance bottlenecks and resolve them • Improve the performance environment with your own code, automation, and external tools • Apply technical ability to coach and develop junior engineers • Deliver department and external presentations sharing results with stakeholders All About You • Strong software engineering experience writing applications using Java Spring Boot framework • Strong experience debugging performance issues with APM tools (i.e. Dynatrace, Splunk, Jprofiler, and JMH) • Strong experience optimizing DB queries in PostgreSQL and Oracle • Experience with Payments industry preferred (i.e. ISO 8583 messaging, 4-party model, and payment applications) • Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive • Time/project management, workload prioritization, knowledge sharing and a passion to learn/take on challenges is a must • Self-motivated demonstrating strong organizational and listening skills; and very detail oriented with the ability to carry out assigned tasks with minimal supervision • Strong verbal and written communications skills • Appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. Be curious about new technology, infrastructure, and practices to scale our architecture and prepare for future growth • 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 Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please con ... (truncated, view full listing at source)