Description
Mastercard is seeking a Software Engineer II to join the Notification Manager team. The Notification Manager platform processes high-volume transaction events and delivers customer-facing notifications through email, SMS, and API channels.
As a Software Engineer II, you will contribute to the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of backend services that power Notification Manager. You will work closely with Product, TPMs, Architects, QA, and partner engineering teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and secure solutions while continuing to grow your technical expertise.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, and maintain Java/Spring Boot microservices.
- Implement enhancements, new features, and defect fixes across Notification Manager services.
- Participate in technical design discussions and translate requirements into working software.
- Write clean, maintainable, and secure code following Mastercard engineering standards.
- Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, and API tests.
- Contribute to modern event-driven architectures utilizing Kafka messaging and distributed processing patterns.
- Support ongoing platform modernization initiatives, including service decomposition, resiliency improvements, performance optimization, and cloud-native deployment practices.
- Help reduce technical debt and improve operational efficiency across the platform.
- Participate in production support, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Monitor system health using observability tools and metrics.
- Troubleshoot application, infrastructure, and data-related issues.
- Support release activities and production readiness efforts.
- Work closely with engineers, QA, PMTs, TPMs, and partner teams to deliver roadmap commitments.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, elaboration sessions, estimation, and backlog refinement.
- Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing.
- Assist and mentor junior engineers where appropriate.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 2–5 years of software development experience.
- Experience developing applications using Java and Spring Boot.
- Understanding of REST APIs and microservice architectures.
- Familiarity with messaging or event-driven systems.
- Experience with source control, code reviews, and CI/CD practices.
- Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently on assigned deliverables while collaborating effectively within a team.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, MQ, or similar).
- Experience with cloud platforms, PCF/Tanzu, Kubernetes, or containerized workloads.
- Knowledge of distributed systems concepts including resiliency, fault tolerance, and scalability.
- Experience with observability tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, or Prometheus.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
- Exposure to PCI, security, or regulatory requirements.
- Experience working in high-volume transaction processing systems.
Success Measures (First 12 Months):
- Independently deliver stories and enhancements from design through production deployment.
- Contribute meaningful improvements to platform reliability, performance, or maintainability.
- Demonstrate ownership of one or more Notification Manager services or technical domains.
- Participate effectively in production support and incident investigations.
- Build strong partnerships with Product, TPM, QA, and peer engineering teams.
- Continuously improve technical knowledge and contribute to team engineering practices.
Technical Environment:
- Java (JDK 17)
- Spring Boot
- Kafka Messaging
- REST APIs
- Oracle / SQL
- GitHub / Bitbucket
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Splunk & Dynatrace
- PCF / Tanzu
- Distributed Event-Driven Architecture