Lead Software Engineer

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

Lead Software Engineer

Overview
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 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.

Role
As a Lead Software Development Engineer at Mastercard, you are expected to perform the following general duties:
Own tasks (dev, test, deployment) at an application/software component level
Work with other departments to architect technical designs.
Able to troubleshoot and refactor existing code.
Independently manage a support queue
Adopt new languages and architecture patterns needed for the work
Influence the decisions made by the team.
Mentor members of the development team

All About You
Business operations: Exhibits general knowledge of MasterCard business processes, systems, products, customers and how they impact own area of work.
Market knowledge: Demonstrates basic understanding of own local market, payments industry and keeps self up-to-date on latest occurrences.
Competitor knowledge: Displays awareness of traditional and emerging competitors and keeps abreast of their product offerings and developments.
Growing and developing teams: Participates in activities which develop others and reinforces good team spirit while working with others.
Inspiring and empowering others: Understands relationships within own work area and participates in teamwork and collaborative efforts.
Coaching and feedback: Show awareness of own strengths and areas of improvement and seeks out additional feedback and suggestions for improvement.
Programming: Has ability to write secure code in multiple languages and frameworks; familiar with secure coding standards (e.g. OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerabilities
Development Practices: Understands and implements standard branching (e.g. Gitflow) and peer review practices; Apply tools (e.g. Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx ) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity; understands and builds test code at unit level, service level, and integration level to ensure code and functional coverage.
Planning: Understands requirement analysis being essential part of delivering value to our customers and partners with peers to participate in elaboration, prioritization, and effort estimation
Practices and Metrics: Understands Agile development processes (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) and the delivery situations they are used for; familiar with SDLC stages starting from requirements gathering to production rollout and key decision gates in each stage; has skills to track work using Application Life Cycle management (ALM) tools (e.g. Jira, Rally).
Engineering Principles: Understand the basic tenets of building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)
Patterns and Protocols: Understand different application patterns to implement different types of business processes (e.g. APIs, event-driven-services, batch-services, web-applications, big data); understands secure network protocols to protect data in transit (e.g. IPSec, TLS, PGP, others)
Automation: Displays basic understanding of MasterCard systems architecture and automation technologies to support and implement software delivery and business process automation; has ability to write code (in languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, Bash, Perl, Groovy) to build automation tasks that are repeatable and efficient
DevOps: Understands Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization; Aware of configuration management using tools (e.g. Puppet, Chef) and CI/CD tools (e.g. Artifactory, Jenkins, Git, Sonar)
Performance and Scalability: Understands performance engineering practices, including capacity drivers, traffic modeling, infrastructure utilization, horizontal scaling, elastic computing, and last mile performance for consumers
Test Strategy: Follows Mastercard testing standards via the Test Strategy; has skills to author test cases leveraging behavior driven development and customer journey concepts; understand organization of testing artifacts (e.g. test folders, sets, runs) in ALM tools and link them to automated testing code to report status of test runs
Testing Types: Understand functional and non-functional testing types and elaborate and estimate test efforts; understand how to build robust tests to minimize defect leakage by performing regression, performance, deployment verification, and release testing
Platform as a Service (PAAS) /Function as a Service (FAAS): Understands general concepts around PAAS and FAAS, and building applications that can be hosted on any standardized on-prem/public or private cloud environments

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $138,000 - $221,000 USD