Lead 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 Lead Software Engineer 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. 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. Overview The Mastercard Authentication team have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Software Engineers who can lead development of microservices based Enterprise applications using Java J2EE stack. This position will be key to growing a global technology platform, operating at-scale, requiring focus on performance, security, and reliability. - Do you want to positively influence the experience of millions of customers? - Do you like to get involved in the creation and execution of strategic initiatives centered around digital payments? - Do you look forward to developing and engaging with high performant diverse teams around the globe? - Do you like to own and be accountable for highly visible strategically important teams? Role • Technically lead project through all stages of the project life cycle, including requirement understanding, estimation, design, development, acceptance testing, deployments. • Work closely with Project Architect, BA and/or customer and come up with high level and low level design • Develop critical components whenever required and create proof of concepts for new/unknown use cases/ideas • Conduct code reviews, is responsible for overall code quality, Coach and mentor less experienced team members • Write and review Design Documentation in conjunction with Technical writer, Do SCM Operations – branching, merging, tagging, conflict resolution • Study upcoming technologies and identify how they can be used to improve existing solution • Comply with organizations processes. Policies and protects organization’s Intellectual property. Also, participate in organization level process improvement and knowledge sharing All About You Essential knowledge, skills & attributes • Hands on experience with core Java, Spring Boot, Spring (MVC, IOC, AOP, Security), SQL, RDBMS (Oracle and PostGRES), NoSQL (Cassandra, preferable), Web-services (JSON and SOAP), Kafka, Zookeeper • Hands on experience of developing microservice application & deploying them on any one of the public cloud like Google, AWS, Azure, PCF • Hands on experience of using IntelliJ/Eclipse/My Eclipse IDE • Hands on experience of writing Junit test cases, working with Maven/Ant/Gradle, GIT • Knowledge of Design Patterns • Experience of working with Agile methodologies. • Personal attributes are strong logical and Analytical Skills, design skills, should be able to articulate and present his/her thoughts very clearly and precisely in English (written and verbal) • Knowledge of Security concepts (E.g. authentication, authorization, confidentiality etc.) and protocols, their usage in enterprise application • Lead by example in driving AI augmented development and connecting AI agents with enterprise tools (e.g., Jira, CI/CD pipeli ... (truncated, view full listing at source)