Software Engineer II
Mastercard
Atlanta, Georgia
Job Description
Our Purpose
We work 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. We cultivate a
culture of inclusion
for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Job Title
Software Engineer II
Overview
This Software Engineer II will be responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions of Mastercard’s next edge marketing technologies. In Customer Interoperability, we build the technologies that supports the end-to-end user journey from awareness to managing and growing their products. This position defines requirements for new applications, technologies and enhancements that will positively impact our customers while adhering to standards, processes and best practices.
Responsibilities
- Own software delivery tasks (code development, test, deployment) at an application/software component level
- Participate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholders
- Able to troubleshoot and refactor existing code
- Adopt new languages and architecture patterns needed for the work
- Influence the decisions made by the team
- Assist peers and less experienced members
- Influence the decisions made by the team
- Demonstrate active learning and sharing of software practices via Guild/Engineering community initiatives
- Assist in technical documentation of APIs and services being delivered
Experiences
- Has ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, React, COBOL, SQL)
- Familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT)
- Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices
- Apply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx ) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity
- Understands and builds test code at unit level, service level, and integration level to ensure code and functional coverage
- Understands the use of basic design patterns (e.g., factory, adaptor, singleton, composite, observer, strategy, inversion of control)
- Understands requirement analysis being essential part of delivering value to our customers and partners and participate in elaboration, prioritization, and effort estimation
- Understands different SDLC practices (Waterfall/Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) and the delivery situations they are used for
- Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)
- Familiar with different application patterns to implement different types of business processes (e.g., APIs, event-driven-services, batch-services, web-applications, big data)
- Understands Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization
- Has ability to write code (in languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, Bash, Perl, Groovy) to build automation tasks that are repeatable and efficient
- Understands functional and non-functional testing types to elaborate and estimate test efforts
Education:
- Bachelor or Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
- Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
