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 Job Description Summary 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. The VCN, Spend Controls & Alerts team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. Overview • 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 Responsibilities • 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 Experiences • Has ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., C, C+, C#, Java, JavaScript) and familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management • Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture) • Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to write interoperable and performant code • Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors • Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices • Has skills in test driven and behavior driven development (TDD and BDD) to build just enough code and collaborate on the desired functionality • Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepti