Software Engineer II

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 Software Engineer II Overview • Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions • Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices Responsibilities • Own complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution • 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. • Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements • Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners • Identify opportunities and build roadmaps to enhance primary service/function • Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed. • Drive seamless integration across all connected services to meet end-user expectations • Drive blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings • Introduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines • Advocate for engineering principles outside of current organization/platform • Provide development and architecture guidance to team members • Build relationships and effective partnerships across organizations • Write and evaluate recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one's accomplishments • Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar • Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence • Encourage staff to share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity Experiences • Has the ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., C, C+, C#, Java, JavaScript) and familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerabilities • Has skills in building applications using open frameworks to achieve reuse and reduce development times (e.g., Spring Boot, Steeltoe, Angular, DXP, others) • Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to write interoperable and performant code • Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors • Has skills to document and coach team on the development practices and coding guidelines (e.g., branching, peer reviews, library use, logging, scanning rules, test-driven development, error handling) • 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 • Has skills to undertake a technical review of code across applications and their dependencies to look for anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring • Understands and elaborates technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritization discussions with stakeholders to improve the run experience • Understands system architecture to plan for platform and infrastructure capacity (e.g., database, compute, network, storage) and drives the dependency prioritisation to reduce the delivery lead time • Has skills to understand customer journeys and ... (truncated, view full listing at source)