Job Title:
Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack - Java, React)
Overview:
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.
Overview:
The Cyber and Intelligence Solutions (C&I) team is responsible for product management and innovative product development of products and services to address the evolving risk & cybersecurity needs of all of MasterCard’s various customer segments. The C&I team was established with the responsibility to safeguard all aspects of safety and security in payments and has made great strides with new products, services and standards, positively impacting all aspects of our current and future payment eco-system.
The Customer Platform Experience team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.
Role
• Build complex secure web applications in a web framework (Java, Node, React, GraphQL, Postgres)
• Design features where the business problem is defined but the technical strategy is not adhering to MasterCard standards, processes and best practices.
• Write a cross-domain JavaScript application
• Follow and create best practices for clean code and architecture
• Deploy and operate apps in the cloud (Amazon, Rackspace, Heroku, etc.)
• Ensure code follows the design and insist on the highest coding standards
• Maintain a sufficiently generic yet simple and economical solution
• Accountable for full systems development life cycle, including creating high-quality requirements documents, use-cases, design and other technical artifacts, including but not limited to detailed test strategy/test design, performance benchmarking, release rollout and deployment plans, contingency/back-out plans, feasibility study, cost and time analysis and detailed estimates.
All About You
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in delivering secure solutions in the Financial Services Sector is preferred.
• Knowledge of REST, GraphQL, SSO, and client/server interaction
• Fluency in one or more languages like Java, NodeJS, ReactJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python
• Deep understanding of internet protocols and standards
• Proficiency with writing and optimizing cross-browser CSS and HTML
• Knowledgeable of scaling techniques (caching, asynchronous/background job queues, etc.).
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, and browser plugin development
• Aptitude to quickly learn new languages and technologies as necessary
• Experience with Agile development methodologies
• Experience building highly scalable and available production web apps, from the glass to the database
• A philosophy of iteration and continuous improvement
