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

Software Engineer II

Overview

The VCN, Spend Controls & Alerts team is looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test to help achieve time-to-market, quality excellence, and higher customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. Unlike similar quality/testing roles in other organizations, a Quality Engineering position at MasterCard requires a hybrid role with knowledge and hands on software development and architecture skills to work closely with developers to build test automation, test infrastructure, and perform code analysis/review to enable development quality.

The Role

You will be responsible for programming, testing, implementation, documentation, maintenance and support of systems application software in adherence with MasterCard standards, processes and best practices. Responsibilities include the following:

• Develop high quality, secure, scalable software solutions based on technical requirements specifications and design artifacts within expected time and budget

• Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives for the business needs current and future

• Perform feasibility studies, logic designs, detailed systems flowcharting, analysis of input-output flow, cost and time analysis

• Work with project team to meet scheduled due dates, while identifying emerging issues and recommending solutions.

• Document software programs per Software Development Best Practices

• Follow MasterCard Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes

• Contribute ideas to help ensure that required standards and processes are in place and actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency

• Support collection and reporting of project and software metrics

About you

• Experience in the software engineering field

• Knowledge of common industry standard best programming practices.

• Thorough knowledge and understanding of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies

• Ability to innovate and develop new approaches to complex design problems

• Experience working in a dynamic and collaborative work environment and make independent decisions

• Ability to learn and deploy new technologies as needed

• Experience in building scalable, maintainable applications

• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines

• Excellent verbal and written communication

• Experience using the Agile Methodology

• Ability to work with cross functional teams

Desired Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience

• Strong experience working on Scalable, Multi-threaded Java applications

• Experience of developing applications using the Spring Framework

• 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 Pivotal Cloud Foundry & AWS

• Knowledge of UNIX and shell scripting

• Experience with Java performance testing and benchmarking

• Experience in Database Design, strong knowledge of PL/SQL

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.