Description
Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive customer experience strategy forward by innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about customer experience, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-performance systems using modern engineering practices.
- Build backend services using Java (8+), applying Object-Oriented design, SOLID principles, and design patterns.
- Develop microservices using frameworks such as Spring Boot, with a focus on event-driven architecture and reusability.
- Translate business requirements into robust technical solutions in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Work across teams to ensure alignment, integration, and successful delivery of projects.
- Ensure solutions adhere to architecture standards, security, and compliance requirements.
- Contribute to scoping, estimation, planning, and prioritisation of work.
- Develop and deploy in a CI/CD-enabled cloud environment.
- Implement appropriate data persistence strategies (RDBMS, NoSQL) based on system needs.
- Enforce coding standards, quality gates, and best practices to ensure maintainable code.
- Leverage AI/ML capabilities to improve system efficiency or solution innovation.
- Drive innovation through Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and adoption of relevant technologies.
- Identify technical risks and dependencies and proactively mitigate them.
- Communicate technical designs, decisions, and issues clearly to stakeholders.
- Deliver commitments within timelines while maintaining alignment with business priorities.
- Operate effectively in an Agile, collaborative environment with strong ownership.
- Mentor and guide engineers on engineering and design best practices.
- Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends through continuous learning.
Requirements
- 6-10 years of overall career experience in Software Development in Java
- Passionate about technology, with strong Object-Oriented Design & Programming skills
- In-depth knowledge of product development
- Strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot
- Experience working on Event-Driven Architecture/Kafka would be an advantage
- Experience in Online/Real-Time Systems development
- Experience in CI and CD
- Experience in Cloud-based development is desirable
- Strong Communicator
- Quick grasping and learning abilities
- Technical Mentoring Skills