Designs and develops a globally scaled commercial payments platform using Java. Responsibilities include defining business requirements, prioritizing development tasks, contributing to architecture, debugging and designing RESTful APIs, collaborating with stakeholders and other product teams, working in an agile environment, and mentoring junior engineers.
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
Senior Software Engineer - Java
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
• Have you ever brought a product to market on a global scale? • Do you have what it takes to technically own a product and drive a solution to market? • Are you motivated to be a part of a high performing team delivering solutions with agility? • Design & develop a world class In Control for Commercial payments platform • Innovate new technologies in the payments space
Role
• Experienced and proactive senior software engineer for a world class distributed agile development team in the commercial virtual payments space. • Contribute to the team and wider platform on a daily basis the design and development of the platform. • Work with internal stakeholders and senior management to define business requirements and assist in the prioritization of tasks for the development team. • Mentor junior members of the team. • Contribute to architectural discussions and work across other products to ensure alignment with the rest of the product suite.
All About You
• Ideally experienced developer with strong/expert level Java development/architecture experience with Spring/Hibernate expertise. • Proven experience building world class solutions on a global scale. • Strong experience working in an agile environment and actively contributing to discussions at retrospectives/elaboration sessions. • Solid experience with RESTful APIs and JSON/SOAP based API with Java. • Ability to debug server-side API calls, and contribute to the design of best-practice RESTful APIs • Knowledge of cloud native development such as cloud foundry, AWS, etc."
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:
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
Senior Software Engineer - Java
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
• Have you ever brought a product to market on a global scale? • Do you have what it takes to technically own a product and drive a solution to market? • Are you motivated to be a part of a high performing team delivering solutions with agility? • Design & develop a world class In Control for Commercial payments platform • Innovate new technologies in the payments space
Role
• Experienced and proactive senior software engineer for a world class distributed agile development team in the commercial virtual payments space. • Contribute to the team and wider platform on a daily basis the design and development of the platform. • Work with internal stakeholders and senior management to define business requirements and assist in the prioritization of tasks for the development team. • Mentor junior members of the team. • Contribute to architectural discussions and work across other products to ensure alignment with the rest of the product suite.
All About You
• Ideally experienced developer with strong/expert level Java development/architecture experience with Spring/Hibernate expertise. • Proven experience building world class solutions on a global scale. • Strong experience working in an agile environment and actively contributing to discussions at retrospectives/elaboration sessions. • Solid experience with RESTful APIs and JSON/SOAP based API with Java. • Ability to debug server-side API calls, and contribute to the design of best-practice RESTful APIs • Knowledge of cloud native development such as cloud foundry, AWS, etc."
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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