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 About Ethoca Ethoca, a Mastercard company, is a global collaboration-based technology services provider that connects card issuers and merchants to combat fraud, enhance customer experience, and prevent disputes. To support our continued growth and success, we are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join the Ethoca team. In this role you will be part of a highly agile team building exciting and innovative products delivered at scale to global markets. Role The Senior Software engineer will work within a cross-functional development team to estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements and enhance Ethoca’s product suite. This position requires collaboration with other engineering teams to deliver a wide range of strategic and tactical solutions. The ideal candidate should be proficient in entire SDLC including automation and product analysis. Given the diverse set of tools and services used across the business, the candidate will be exposed to various technologies and should possess a willingness to learn and adapt. You are passionate about design and technology and committed to doing things properly to avoid tech debt. • Participate in team prioritisation discussions with Product/Business stakeholders. • Estimate and own delivery tasks (dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements. • 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 and actively works to improve experience and metrics in the ownership area. • Develop a 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. Test Automation & Framework Development • Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated validation frameworks. Engineering Excellence • Review test architecture, automation code, and quality solutions. • Drive shift-left quality practices. • Participate in design reviews and provide quality-focused recommendations during architecture discussions. All About You Required Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline. • 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering with exposure to entire SDLC. • Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript. • Experience building automation frameworks from the ground up. • Strong experience with: ◦ REST APIs ◦ Microservices ◦ Event-driven architectures ◦ Distributed systems ◦ Cloud-native applications • Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent. • Experience with automation tools such as: ◦ Selenium ◦ Playwright ◦ Cypress ◦ Rest Assured ◦ Postman • Good understanding of Data build tool (DBT) testing to ensure data quality, reliability, and accuracy across data engineering pipelines. • Strong experience with SQL and data analysis and validation. • Strong understanding of Agile and DevOps practice