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 (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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

Manager, Software Engineering

Mastercard Payment Gateway Services is a leading supplier of online payment and fraud screening services. We are an innovative and ambitious market leader intent on growing our global presence. We follow the best software development and Agile practices, to deliver successfully, again and again.

As part of our ongoing expansion, we're looking for a Manager Software Engineer who is as passionate about technical leadership as they are about people leadership, someone who enjoys creating and delivering successful software platforms while growing people to perform at their best.

• Be part a team that is responsible for building a global platform that performs at scale serving millions of customers.

• Lead the team in honing the best software development practices, technical design and implementation to be successful.

• Provide technical leadership to the team to make the right technology implementation decisions, meeting the needs of the business and operational teams.

Role: Tech Lead + Team Lead + Agile Coach

• Tech Lead – experience in leading and guiding a team of developers to hone our adoption of modern software development practices, selecting and implementing technologies correctly, all the while delivering successfully to meet our business objectives.

• Team Lead – with experience in leading a team of developers, applying great software development practices, while growing the strengths of the people in our team.

• Agile Coach – facilitate the Agile (Scrum) team ceremonies and to enable Agile delivery of software.

All About You

• You bring advanced skills in designing, building, and implementing robust solutions that perform faultlessly at scale.

• You have experience using modern software development practices, including test driven development, automated testing, micro-services and continuous delivery.

• Your analytical and planning skills enable you to see around corners to the problems that lie out of sight so that we can overcome them before they bite us.

• You are a self-starter, creative thinker, proactive and enthusiastic; and a team player, as keen on the success of those around you as of your own.

• You’re a great communicator and have proven experience in collaborating effectively with business stakeholders.

• You have exceptional attention to detail and time management skills.

• Your technology acumen is highly regarded.

• Finance industry experience will be regarded.

Experience in Technologies

Software design & development approaches:

• You're a polyglot with know-how in many of today's programming languages: Java is a must.

• TDD software design

• Strong understanding of Spring Framework.

• Experience developing software using domain-driven design (DDD) approach

• Strong understanding of REST architectural style and experience building RESTful APIs and RESTful Web Services

• Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) supported by Jenkins or similar automation servers

• Experience building mission-critical applications based on Micro services Architecture

• Proficiency using Generics, Lambda Expressions, and Streams

• Experience building Reactive Systems

• Working knowledge of utilizing and administering Software Configuration Management (SCM) tools (e.g. Git, Subversion) for software development

• Strong understanding of Object Oriented principals

• Strong understanding of low latency and high throughput system.

• Strong understanding of Cloud native application Architecture.

Frameworks & technologies:

• Expert knowledge of Spring Framework, Spring Foundation ( Senior level experience), Java J2EE (Senior level experience)

• Experience working with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

• Practical experience with NoSQL, Redis database technologies

• Distributed systems using Apache Kafka, Apache Zookeeper, Apache Ignite

• Distributed Cache (GemFire, Hazelcast, Memcached, Ignite, Redis)

• Test automation with Karate/Cucumber and Selenium

• SQL (Senior level experience)

Cloud Experience (advantageous):

• Experience building 12-factor apps

• Experience building enterprise grade apps for cloud

• Experience automating build & deployments using Jenkins, Maven & Gradle

• Cloud deployed systems in Cloud Foundry

What is it like to work with us?

Within our development teams we encourage pairing, automated testing and continuous delivery, and we do it while mixing in loads of fun. Our squads consist of 8-9 people who work together across technology, product and delivery as an autonomous unit. We believe strongly in continuous learning and personal development, providing access to training and extensive libraries of information. We participate in guilds across the company to keep learning from one another. Your manager acts as a coach to help guide you and your career.

We're committed to creating inclusive, safe environments where anyone, no matter their background, can contribute and succeed.

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.