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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.

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Senior Software Engineer- UI

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - UI - full stack

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

The Mastercard Merchant Acceptance Program is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions. Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices.

Merchant Acceptance Program consists of products & solutions that aim to increase Mastercard's acceptance footprint and improving quality of card holder experience at the point of interaction.

Role:

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

Automate build, operate, and run aspects of software

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

Report status and manage risks within their primary application/service

Drive integration of services focusing on customer journey and experience

Perform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product owners

Understands operational and engineering experience, actively works to improve experience and metrics in ownership area

Develop complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems

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

Mentor and guide new and less-experienced team members

Identify opportunities to improve an overall process and trim waste

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

Knowledge/Experience (preferred):

4-8 years of experience in writing secure code in two or more languages (UI technologies – Angular and Javascript – primary skill set, Java and API development – secondary skill set) and familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE etc) and vulnerability management.

Has vast experience in full stack development (ability to work on both API and UI layer)

Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)

Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices

Understands use cases for UI state management, localization and middleware to implement efficient code

Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloguing to drive API/service adoption and commercialization

Has skills to author test code with lots of smaller tests followed by few contract tests at service level and fewer journey tests at the integration level (Test Pyramid concept)

Has skills to collaborate with team and business stakeholders to estimate requirements (e.g., story pointing) and prioritize based on business value

Has skills to elaborate and estimate non-functional requirements, including security (e.g., data protection, authentication, authorization), regulatory, and performance (SLAs, throughput, transactions per second)

Has skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines, and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD using industry standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, AWS/Azure pipelines).

Has skills to understand, report, and optimize delivery metrics to continuously improve upon them (e.g., velocity, throughput, lead time, defect leakage, burndown)

Has skills to document and drive definition-of-done for requirements to meet both business and operational needs

Understands how to build robust tests to minimize defect leakage by performing regression, performance, deployment verification, and release testing

Has skills to conduct product demos and co-ordinate with product owners to drive product acceptance signoffs

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.