Senior Java Backend Engineer

Description

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

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.

The Mastercard Authentication Program owns how consumer authentication works for both in-store and e-commerce transactional use cases. The primary purpose of this role is to develop and deliver best-of-breed authentication products for e-commerce transactional use cases that will drive uptake and penetration for the products and revenue for Mastercard. The authentication products that fall within this role’s responsibilities are ID Check, Token Authentication Service and Token Authentication Framework.

Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

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

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

Apply best practices from previous industry experience, whilst adhering to our own engineering principles of writing high quality, secure code that is modular, functional and testable;

Report status and manage risks within your primary application/service

Perform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product owners

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

Identify opportunities to improve an overall process and trim waste

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

All About You

You should apply if you have:

A degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Strong experience with server-side, backend applications and technologies, namely microservices architectures;

Strong experience using Java / Spring / RESTful APIs

Strong experience conducting unit, component, integrated and functional tests (e.g. Junit, Mockito, Cocumber etc.)

You enjoy sharing your knowledge and experience with your colleagues;

Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

You are proactive and eager to learn new things

You are a team player

Requirements

• Experience in an Agile environment
• Previous experience with Microservices, Event Architectures (e.g. Kafka)
• Previous experience with metrics / reporting tools (Grafana, Splunk, etc.)
• Previous experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry to deploy cloud-ready applications;
• Corporate Security Responsibility
• Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.
• 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.