Job Title:

Lead Software Engineer

Overview:

Job Description Summary
Overview:
Mastercard is a technology company in the Global Payments Industry. We operate the world’s fastest payments processing network, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. Mastercard products and solutions make everyday commerce activities – such as shopping, travelling, running a business and managing finances – easier, more secure and more efficient for everyone. 
MasterCard is seeking for a Senior Software Engineering to join our Data and Analytics team in building new data driven products for our consumers. The candidate will work with cross-functional teams and business stakeholders in developing product platforms. The ideal candidate should be passionate about design thinking, customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. 
Join our team and help shape the future of data and analytics!
Role:
Mastercard is building digital platform for data accessibility for different personas e.g., business-users, data engineers, for faster retrieval of data.
The Lead Software Development Engineer is a hands-on developer specialising in Java development with a particular focus producing API services to support building new product and platforms.  
What you will do:
•    Design components by translating product requirements, break down project into tasks and provide accurate estimates.
•    Responsible for the analysis, design, development, and delivery of software solutions.
•    Given a fuzzy product requirement, work with other stakeholders, product to understand & refine the requirements and change them to tech requirements.
•    Prepare high-level designs under the guidance and document them.
•    Independently come-up with different solutions, extensible low-level design and code independently.
•    Choose the right tech stack for a given situation under guidance from senior team members.
•    Optimize existing microservices.
•    Take non-functional requirement (Reliability & Availability, Scale, horizontal scalability) into considerations while taking any decision.
•    Build, develop, mentor and coach junior team members.
•    Plan, design and develop technical solutions and alternatives to meet business requirements in adherence with Mastercard standards, processes and best practices.
•    Write modular, extensible, readable, and performant code.
•    Choose the right Data Structures, tools and tech stacks and be able to do High Level Designing with guidance.
•    Research new frameworks and technologies, assist with prototyping and proof-of-concepts, participate in code reviews.
•    Build, develop, mentor and coach junior team members.
•    Collaborate with teams by contributing to the shared vision and working closely with cross-functional stakeholders.
•    You will be responsible for the API’s you (and or your team) build and will support them till the time they are live in production.
•    Contribute ideas to help ensure that required standards and processes are in place. Maintain solution and technology road maps.
•    Accountable for full systems development life cycle including creating high quality requirements documents, use-cases, design and other technical artifacts including but not limited to detailed test strategy/test design, performance benchmarking, release rollout and deployment plans, contingency/back-out plans, feasibility study, cost and time analysis and detailed estimates.
•    Research and evaluate current and upcoming technologies and frameworks. Participate in PoCs (Proof of Concept) and help the Department with selection of Vendor Solutions, Technologies, Methodologies and Frameworks.
•    Owning the quality of code, UT coverage, documentation etc
•    Collaborate with teams by contributing to the shared vision and working closely with cross-functional stakeholders.
•    Research new frameworks and technologies, assist with prototyping and proof-of-concepts, participate in code reviews.
•    You will be responsible for the API’s you (and or your team) build and will support them till the time they are live in production.
All About You:
•    A software (solution) architect who can design, develop and document complex solutions.
•    Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of management.
•    Ability to build rapport and relationships
•    Problem solver and solution-seeking approach
•    Knowledgeable – possessing the technical knowledge, market knowledge, and other specialised knowledge of the team’s problem domain 
•    Hands on experience in designing complex, highly scalable and performing microservices in a distributed environment using the Java tech stack (Spring framework 2.7, 3.0, Spring boot 3.x, RESTful web services)
•    Solid knowledge and experience integrating web services, writing SQL queries, 
•    Exposure to building cloud ready applications (microservices)
•    Good knowledge of TDD and BDD
•    Exposure to Continuous Delivery and Integration
•    Having successful track record of architect and development of software applications platform as an individual contributor.
•    Team player, experienced working in Agile scrum
•    Computing degree
•    12+ years experience in Java (8,11) development, out of which 4-5 years of experience in designing complex platform solution as an architect.

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