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 EngineerMastercard 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
As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Data & Services, you will have the opportunity to build high performance analytics platform that advance how businesses all over the world unleash the most value from their data. Our next generation platform blends industry-leading analytics, advanced software architecture, and the latest web technologies. You will play a vital role within a rapidly growing organization, while working closely with experienced and driven engineers to solve challenging problems.
As a member of the Targeting Analytics team, you will help build applications and API’s, on-premise and in the cloud, to support real-time processes serving thousands of clients. The team focuses on delivering processes which transform the raw Mastercard data into high value AI modelling data to produce measurable value for our clients. This is a rapidly growing area of the business focused on creating and delivering superior Analytics and Insights.
The teams work in small, flexible groups and every team member contributes to feature design, building, and testing. The range of work you encounter varies from building data pipelines to working on web apps to writing server-side calculation code to performance turning of large workloads. There are no rigid organizational structures at Mastercard; each team uses processes that work the best for that team's members and projects.

Role
• Design applications and processes which ingest multiple data pipelines and processes from manipulating large complex datasets
• Build high value analytics off large data sets while keeping performance top of mind
• Evolve existing processes to automate and scale the infrastructure to handle an increase in data volume and user base as we scale globally
• Leverage new technologies and approaches to innovating with increasingly large data sets
• Collaborate across teams with exceptional peers who are passionate about what they do
• Assist in Leading the development team and serve as a technical resource for team members
• Mentor the team and provide guidance to improve on the quality of product development
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to bring a data based technical perspective to roadmap and business decisions for the improvement of our products
• Lead and push the boundaries of analytics and powerful, scalable applications
• Bring a focus on high-quality code and development best practices
All about you / Ideal Candidate Qualifications
• Proficiency with advanced object-oriented programming
• Deep technical foundation in Java and full-stack development
• Solid understanding working and building analytics on top of big data
• Experience contributing to the development of large-scale applications
• Desire to innovate and leverage new technology
• Passion for solving complex analytical/quantitative problems in real world scenarios
• Motivation, creativity, self-direction, and desire to thrive on small project teams
• Initiative and creativity in approaching new challenges
• Good Quality academic record with a degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Strong communication skills

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.