Software Engineer I

Our Purpose

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 respects 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.

Title and Summary

Software Engineer I

The Decision Management Program delivers industry leading intelligence at global scale as it is deeply embedded in the Mastercard network. The award winning, patent protected platform was engineered to rapidly build innovative products and currently powers over 20 different products. These products protect our customers from fraud, impede crimes such as human trafficking and terrorism, provide customers control over their spend, protect Mastercard from financial risk, and earn significant revenue.
Processing over 1.2 billion transactions per day at ~50 msec each (~65k tps), the technical capabilities include processing multiple AI models in parallel with 13 different AI technologies, self-service business rule capability, and the world's largest Gemfire In Memory Data Grid at 40 TB.

Overview
• Responsible for the analysis, development and delivery of software solutions
• Implement requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices

Responsibilities
• Follow given directions and procedures in software delivery tasks (code development, test, deployment)
• Deliver assigned work seeking guidance from experienced team members
• Proactively seek code reviews of their work from experienced members
• Understands the big picture and end-to-end logical architecture of systems in ownership areas
• Provide feedback and suggestions on areas to improve
• Understands the use of Mastercard technology policies in everyday work
• Demonstrate active learning and sharing of software practices via Guild/Engineering community initiatives

Experiences
• Has ability to write code in languages (e.g. Java, SQL)
• Familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT)
• Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices
• Apply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx ) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity
• Understands and builds test code at unit level, service level, and integration level to ensure code and functional coverage
• Understands the use of basic design patterns (e.g., factory, adaptor, singleton, composite, observer, strategy, inversion of control)
• Understands requirement analysis being essential part of delivering value to our customers and partners and participate in elaboration, prioritization, and effort estimation
• Understands different SDLC practices (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) and the delivery situations they are used for
• Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)
• Familiar with different application patterns to implement different types of business processes (e.g., APIs, event-driven-services, batch-services, web-applications, big data)
• Understands Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization
• Has ability to write code (in languages such as Java, Python, C/C++) to build automation tasks that are repeatable and efficient

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.

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