Lead Software Engineering

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 Engineering

Lead Software Engineer

Our Purpose:
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 ‘Services within Mastercard’ division is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.

Identity Verification (a program within Services), is the global standard in identity verification, providing businesses worldwide the ability to link any digital transaction to the human behind it. Our Identity Engine, the first and only of its kind, uses complex machine learning to combine features derived from the billions of transactions within our proprietary network and the data from our graph to deliver industry leading risk assessment solutions.

We are the Platform & API Team which is responsible for the customer facing APIs to our products and is looking for a Lead Software Engineer for our Seattle or Vancouver Canada offices. As a Lead Software Engineer, we are looking for someone who can help tech lead our team’s developers in our Functional Programming language tech stack within a geo-diverse larger team. You would thrive on designing, coding and maintaining high performance data processing applications on the JVM platform (primarily in Clojure), running on AWS. Our ideal candidate would have experience mentoring and leading developers and deep experience using functional programming technologies to build internal and external latency sensitive APIs. Using the most fitting tools and having the passion to champion new and exciting technologies to solve our unique and challenging problems.

Role & Responsibilities:
• Work as part of a development Scrum team in an Agile environment that is geographically diverse
• Help lead and mentor from the tech perspective members of the team
• Responsible for the analysis, design, development, and delivery of software backend (REST API) 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
• Be part of a day-time team on-call schedule to support our APIs during customer use.

All About You:
• Demonstrated software development experience in a professional development team setting.
• Strong willingness and ability to learn / take on challenging opportunities
• Possess strong communication skills -- both verbal and written – and strong relationship, collaborative and organizational skills.
• JVM experience, or experience with at least one object-oriented language (Java, C#, C++, Python, etc.) and ideally some or more prior exposure with functional programming (IE: Clojure) or other relevant languages
• Knowledge of unit testing frameworks and source control systems; (Git / BitBucket a plus)
• Experience working with cloud-based server environments; (AWS ideally)

Helpful to have:
• Experience with Clojure, JVM languages (IE Java), functional programming languages, JSON, HTTP, RESTful services
• Experience writing automated acceptance tests in Cucumber, RestAssured, etc. (used in CI/CD pipelines)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Redis or Other)
• Experience working in a CI/CD environment. (Jenkins a plus)
• Experience with Confluence, JIRA and Agile
• Experience with customer facing, scalable, and performant RESTful APIs
• Experience wi