Senior Software Engineer @ Mastercard

About the role
Software Engineers at Mastercard design and code a variety of applications covering transaction processing, analytics, user interfaces, and APIs using a blend of cutting-edge technologies across big data, distributed systems, machine learning, and more. As a Software Engineer, you will deliver these products and solutions with speed and agility as part of a small team. This will involve developing high-performing, highly scalable software solutions and products for some of the world s top brands. Specific tasks vary depending on the project and the business unit that you join in.
All staff at Mastercard are expected to 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 Software Engineer at Mastercard, you are expected to perform the following general responsibilities:
Help lead team prioritization discussions in close collaboration with Product and Business stakeholders
Estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation)
Automate build, operate, and run aspects of software
Drive code/design/process trade-off discussions within their team when required
Be a voice of the team, performing demos/acceptance discussions with Product owners and confidently communicating elsewhere when needed
Drive adoption of technology standards and practices and review code, test, and automation work of team members
Mentor and guide new and less-experienced team members All about you

It is expected a candidate should have experience across multiple areas listed below.
Apply advanced design patterns, Application Programming Interface (API) standards, adoption, and commercialization. Write performant code and debug/troubleshoot complex issues across multi-tiered software architectures. Analyzes/Designs/Implements scalable data retention architectures.
Leads planning, prioritizing and scoping features, backlog, technical debt, and enhancements for their team, making the right tradeoffs by collaborating with team, business, and management stakeholders. Coordinates with product owners to drive acceptance and signoffs. Understands, reports, and optimizes delivery metrics to continuously improve them (e.g., velocity, throughput, lead time, defect leakage, burndown); Good oral and written communicator. Explains concepts accurately and well across a range of technical and business domains. Very high level of precision in technical and design discussions. Conveys and communicates ideas in a way that significantly enhances understanding, collaboration, and engagement. Communicates very well across seniority levels, roles, and geographies.
Architects test plans with a comprehensive and thoughtful level of coverage to cover business use cases and edge conditions. Builds confidence in changes to complex systems. Understands how and when to employ various types of tests such unit, regression, performance, and integration.
Highly effective debugging complex issues and relentless in discovering root causes of bugs that span multiple services and product modules.
Mentors junior engineers and interns to a high level of productivity and independence. Teaches technical and domain knowledge, and best practices. Encourages others to take on additional opportunities and challenges.
Manage builds and artifacts delivery/release using standard tools. Ability to understand/automate software upgrades, patches, and releases via CI/CD pipelines. Familiarity with application/system metrics collection, observability, and monitoring.
Exhibits and encourages flexibility and professionalism. Approaches discussions with empathy with a goal of building consensus. Finds way pitches in and lends support where needed. Valuable partner with team members in all roles and geographies.
History of garnering business/organizational needs and applying industry/software trends to produce unique solutions to design/architectural challenges across org/team boundaries.