Senior Software Engineer (Real Time Payments)

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

Senior Software Engineer (Real Time Payments)

Mastercard is looking for innovative Software Engineers to join our Real-time Payments Engineering team. This is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of shaping the future of account-to-account (A2A) transactions and part of a world-class A2A platform leveraging Mastercard’s scaled technology and services. If you are passionate about building scalable, high-performance platforms and want to be part of a team that values bold ideas and relentless execution, we invite you to apply.

Job Description Summary:

Responsible for the analysis, design, development, and delivery of software solutions.
Define requirements for new applications and customization adhering to MasterCard standards, processes, and best practices.
Develop, customize, and test applications to integrate to MasterCard’s specifications.
Provide leadership, mentoring, and technical training to other team members.

Major Accountabilities:

• Plan, design and develop technical solutions and alternatives to meet business requirements in adherence with MasterCard standards, processes, and best practices.
• Lead day to day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and create solutions with high level of innovation, cost-effectiveness, high-quality, and faster time to market.
• Accountable for full systems development life cycle including creating high quality requirements documents, use-cases, design, and other technical artifacts including but not limited to detailed test strategy/test design, performance benchmarking, release rollout and deployment plans, contingency/back-out plans, feasibility study, cost and time analysis and detailed estimates.
• Perform system maintenance, production incident problem management, identification of root cause, remediation of the problems and on-call pager support schedule. Select appropriate technical frameworks and solution delivery methodology. Adapt to the technical artifact templates per the needs of the project and technology. Contribute ideas to help ensure that required standards and processes are in place. Maintain solution and technology road maps.
• Research and evaluate current and upcoming technologies and frameworks.
• Participate in PoCs (Proof of Concept) and help the Department with selection of Vendor Solutions, Technologies, Methodologies and Frameworks.
• Collaborate with Vendor Resources for Support of Products.
• Conduct brownbag sessions on new and upcoming technologies, methodologies, and application appropriate frameworks. Ensure knowledge transfer of vendor technology to MasterCard staff. Provide technical training to the other team members.
• Follow and promote Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes in the department. Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency. Mentor and guide other team members during all phases of the SDLC. Ensure adequate test coverage in Unit Testing, System Testing/Integration Testing and Performance Testing. Perform Quality Inspections and Walkthroughs throughout the SDLC including Requirements Review, Design Review, Code Review and Security Review to ensure compliance with MasterCard standards.
• Co-ordinate offshore development and manage day to day activities.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience.

Knowledge / Experience:
• 3 to 5 years of strong development experience using Java and Spring Framework
• 3 to 5 years of experience in delivering secure solutions in Financial Services Sector is preferred.
• Broad understanding of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies is required.

Skills/ Abilities
• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and have the ability to function under pressure in an indepen