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Mastercard · 2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer-1

New York City, New York

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$138K/yr - $221K/yr

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer-1 to participate in team discussions, drive integration of services, and mentor new team members while ensuring a high-quality customer experience.

FinanceFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyPayments

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Participate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholders

Estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements

Automate build, operate, and run aspects of software

Drive code/design/process trade-off discussions within their team when required

Report status and manage risks within their primary application/service

Drive integration of services focusing on customer journey and experience

Perform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product owners

Understands operational and engineering experience, actively works to improve experience and metrics in ownership area

Develop complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems

Drive adoption of technology standards and opinionated frameworks, and review coding, test, and automation work of team members

Mentor and guide new and less-experienced team members

Identify opportunities to improve an overall process and trim waste

Share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity

Qualification

Secure codingSoftware architectureDebuggingTroubleshootingAPI standardsContinuous integrationTest driven developmentBehavior driven developmentOperating systems knowledgeVersion controlRelease managementProcess improvementCustomer journey understandingCollaboration skillsMentoring

Required

Has 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 vulnerability management

Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)

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

Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices

Has skills in test driven and behavior driven development (TDD and BDD) to build just enough code and collaborate on the desired functionality

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

Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization

Has skills to author test code with lots of smaller tests followed by few contract tests at service level and fewer journey tests at the integration level (Test Pyramid concept)

Apply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity

Has skills to collaborate with team and business stakeholders to estimate requirements (e.g., story pointing) and prioritize based on business value

Has skills to elaborate and estimate non-functional requirements, including security (e.g., data protection, authentication, authorization), regulatory, and performance (SLAs, throughput, transactions per second)

Has skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines, and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD using industry standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, AWS/Azure pipelines, XL Release, others)

Has skills to understand, report, and optimize delivery metrics to continuously improve upon them (e.g., velocity, throughput, lead time, defect leakage, burndown)

Has skills to document and drive definition-of-done for requirements to meet both business and operational needs

Understands how to build robust tests to minimize defect leakage by performing regression, performance, deployment verification, and release testing

Has skills to conduct product demos and co-ordinate with product owners to drive product acceptance signoffs

Has skills to understand customer journeys and ensure a Mastercard good experience by continuously reducing Mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for incidents and ensuring high availability (99.95% as a starting point)

Benefits

Insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)

Flexible spending account and health savings account

Paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)

80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time

25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire

10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays

401k with a best-in-class company match

Deferred compensation for eligible roles

Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities

Eligibility for tuition reimbursement

Company

Mastercard

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Mastercard is a financial network that processes payments between banks and cardholders.

Founded in 1966

Purchase, New York, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.mastercard.com

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