Senior Software Engineer - Decision Management Program

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 - Decision Management Program

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
Decision Management Program (DMP) is a sophisticated, industry-leading intelligence with a range of capabilities that structure and apply complex business logic across the payment journey and beyond to inform and accelerate decisions at scale at Mastercard.

The Authorization Decisioning product within DMP combines DMP's powerful capabilities with access to all authorization messages available within Mastercard. With access to the full extent of transactions as they happen, Authorization Decisioning can extract intelligence, add intelligence, and make decisions, all customizable to market-facing products. With the ability to bi-directionally consume and apply intelligence, Authorization Decisioning can transform insights into immediate operational action.

The DMP team is looking for someone to join the Authorization Decisioning product in support of the Near Real Time Service.

Role
We demonstrate 'Mastercard Way' cultural values every day - own it, simplify it, sense of urgency,
thoughtful risk-taking, unlock potential, and be inclusive - with a relentless focus on our customers. As a Senior Engineer at Mastercard, you are expected to carry out the following general duties:

Participates in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholders
Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
Estimates and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, development, configuration, documentation) to meet the business/functional requirements
Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions
Report statuses and mange risks within the primary application/service

Responsibilities
Review and monitor daily service volume and performance, reporting any inconsistencies
Participate in team ceremonies in alignment with Agile Methodology practices
Takes ownership of full end-to-end development, from planning to release
Actively participates, guides and monitors product/code launch
Work with Business/Product Owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles
Take ownership to improve the customer experience of an entire set of services/applications sold as products or bundled services
Contribute and lead Guild initiatives by engaging and mentoring Engineers at all levels to improve the craftmanship of Software Engineering
Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests
Venture beyond comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of Software Engineering
Consult across teams and across organization lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities
Mentor and guide junior software engineers in the team to improve engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance

All About You
Technical Skills
Has the ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., C, C+, C#, Java, JavaScript, COBOL, SQL)
Some familiarity with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability
management
Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices
Understands and builds test code at the unit level, service level, and integration level to ensure code and functional coverage
Has skills to promote and coach teams on take on full stack development and facilitate end-to-end service ownership
Understands internal of operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mainframe) to write interoperable and performant code; able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors
Oracle knowledge is a plus
Splunk knowledge is a plus

Software Development Lifecycle
Has skills to collaborate with team and business stakeholders to estimate requirements (e.g., story pointing) and prioritize based on business value
Has the ability to document and drive definition-of-done for requirements to meet both business and operational needs
Understands the cost of defects and implements a well-defined defect life cycle to minimize defect leakage and improve customer and operational experience
Has skills to conduct product demos and co-ordinate with product owners to drive product
acceptance signoffs

Education
Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

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