Senior 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

Senior Software Engineer

Overview
Who is Mastercard?

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.

About the Role
Customer Connectivity is a global Mastercard team that designs, builds and supports service platforms that provide cryptographic, key management and certificate management functions utilized by global Mastercard application teams.
The Customer Connectivity team develops and supports shared security services to be leveraged across Enterprise by consuming application teams. Our inventory of shared services include cryptography, certificate management, code signing, and key management.
This role is a technical leader on a team which will be responsible for the component design, development and integration of digital security technologies and solutions to be leveraged by the enterprise.
This position includes partnering with project managers for implementation of technical solutions, detailing costs and time estimates for initiatives, mentoring junior team members through all phases of the software development lifecycle, and ensuring compliance of audit requirements proactively.
Candidates must be able to obtain a deep technical understanding of the applications/systems that they are working on and must be willing to dig in and ask challenging questions to make sure that plans are executed efficiently.
Candidates should have a strong interest in Corporate Security.
Candidates must demonstrate strong technical leadership and ability to engage in out-of-the-box problem solving.
Candidate will be responsible for researching alternative technical solutions for changing business needs.

Role:
Code, document, test components / subsystems to a high standard
Must be solutions oriented - ultimately find and implement the 'best fit' solution to address the requirement on time.
Assist defining processes and choice of development tools to be used across the group
Interpret technical specifications to produce detailed design
Design with future extension in mind
Perform functional and performance testing of solutions
Ensure code is easily maintainable and tracked in version control system
Provide task estimates, level of complexity assessment
Provide input to scheduling of projects
Ensure tasks get executed on time and to required standards
Pass on knowledge of various technologies to other team members and to other functions

All About You
Experience with Java/J2EE
Experience with cryptographic primitives, concepts, and protocols
Good understanding of private or public cloud eco systems.
Experience in secure software development.
Experience working with fast-faced, modern architecture using Java, Spring boot, Kafka, C++, JNI or similar technologies.
Working experience in a continuous integration development environment, preferably Jenkins.
Background in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
Proficiency in Software Development Best Practices (TDD/BDD, Unit test, Continuous Delivery, ...)
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Desire to stay abreast of new development technologies and tools.
Advanced inter-personal skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment.
Strong communication skills, with an ability to express design ideas to a development team.

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: $115,000 - $184,000 USD