Job Title:
Software Engineer II
Overview:
Overview
We are the global technology company behind the world’s fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.
Our team within Mastercard – Services:
The Services org is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that are used by some of the world's largest organizations to make multi-million dollar decisions and grow their businesses. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include payments-focused consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, business Test & Learn experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services.
Advanced Analytics Program:
Within the Services Technology Team, the Advanced Analytics program is a relatively new program that is comprised of a rich set of products that provide accurate perspectives on Credit Risk, Portfolio Optimization, and Ad Insights. Currently, we are enhancing our customer experience with new user interfaces, moving to API and web application-based data publishing to allow for seamless integration in other Mastercard products and externally, utilizing new data sets and algorithms to further analytic capabilities, and generating scalable big data processes.
We are looking for an innovative software engineer who will help with implementation of a full stack web application, APIs, and data pipelines, and thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Engineers work in small, flexible teams. Every team member contributes to designing, building, and testing features. The range of work you will encounter varies from building intuitive, responsive UIs to designing backend data models, architecting data flows, and beyond. There are no rigid organizational structures, and each team uses processes that work best for its members and projects.
Here are a few examples of products in our space:
• Portfolio Optimizer (PO) is a solution that leverages Mastercard’s data assets and analytics to allow issuers to identify and increase revenue opportunities within their credit and debit portfolios.
• Audiences uses anonymized and aggregated transaction insights to offer targeting segments that have high likelihood to make purchases within a category to allow for more effective campaign planning and activation.
• Credit Risk products are a new suite of APIs and tooling to provide lenders real-time access to KPIs and insights serving thousands of clients to make smarter risk decisions using Mastercard data.
Help found a new, fast-growing engineering team!
Position Responsibilities:
As a Software Engineer, you will:
• As a Software Engineer, you will design and implement 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
• Build and maintain analytics and data models to enable performant and scalable products
• Ensure a high-quality code base by writing and reviewing performant, well-tested code
• Able to troubleshoot and refactor existing code
• Adopt new languages and architecture patterns needed for the work
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Data Engineering, customer experience, and Product teams to deliver new features and improvements.
• Mentor junior software engineers and teammates
Ideal Candidate Qualifications:
• 4+ years of full stack engineering experience in an agile production environment
• Experience leading the design and implementation of complex features in full-stack applications
• Experience leading a large project and working with other developers
• Strong technologist eager to learn new technologies and frameworks. The following is a plus:
• Proficiency with Java, React, Redux, Typescript, Tomcat, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Maven, Hibernate / JPA or other object-oriented languages, front-end frameworks, and/or relational database technologies
• Solid experience with RESTful APIs and JSON/SOAP based API
• Experience with SQL, Multi-threading, Message Queuing & Distributed Systems.
• Experience with Design Patterns.
• Expertise in Junit or other automated unit testing frameworks.
• Knowledge of Splunk or other alerting and monitoring solutions.
• Fluent in the use of Git, Jenkins.
• Knowledge of cloud native development such as cloud foundry, AWS, etc.
• Customer-centric development approach
• Passion for analytical / quantitative problem solving
• Ability to identify and implement improvements to team development processes
• Strong collaboration skills with experience collaborating across many people, roles, and geographies
• Motivation, creativity, self-direction, and desire to thrive on small project teams
• Superior academic record with a degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills #J-18808-Ljbffr