Lead Java Software Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Our Purpose

Title and Summary

Lead Java Software EngineerLead Software Engineer

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.

Overview :

The ‘Services within Mastercard’ division is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.

Identity Solutions (a program within Services), is the global standard in identity verification, providing businesses worldwide the ability to link any digital transaction to the human behind it. Our Identity Engine, the first and only of its kind, uses complex machine learning to combine features derived from the billions of transactions within our proprietary network and the data from our graph to deliver industry leading risk assessment solutions.

We are the Platform & API Team which is responsible for the customer facing APIs to our products and are looking for a Lead Software Engineer for our Budapest office. As a Lead Software Engineer, we are looking for someone who be on of the tech leaders on our team to help developers in our Functional Programming language tech stack within a geo-diverse larger team. You would thrive on designing, coding and maintaining high performance data processing applications on the JVM platform (primarily in Clojure), running on AWS. Our ideal candidate would have experience mentoring and leading developers and deep experience using functional programming technologies to build internal and external latency sensitive APIs. Using the most fitting tools and having the passion to champion new and exciting technologies to solve our unique and challenging problems.

Your ideal job should be one where you work in a development team and are empowered to make yourself and your team more productive on a daily basis. You should want to be part of a team where your desire to grow and learn are valued and aptly rewarded; where using and contributing to open source are looked upon as an asset; where innovating and executing are core to your teams' beliefs.

Role & Responsibilities :

• Work as part of a development Scrum team in an Agile environment that is geographically diverse
• Help lead and mentor from the tech perspective members of the team
• Responsible for the analysis, design, development, and delivery of software backend (REST API) solutions
• Define requirements for new applications and customization adhering to Mastercard standards, processes, and best practices
• Develop, customize, and test applications to integrate to Mastercard’s specifications
• Be part of a day-time team on-call schedule to support our APIs during customer use.
• Hybrid office where 3 day weekly average in office is expected.

All About You :

Helpful to have :

Education / Experience :

In return we offer a hybrid work environment including work from anywhere weeks as per Mastercard policy. Team and Tech Hub events such as in and out of office games, sport teams, hackathons, lunch n learns, regular office lunches and other events. Don’t forget the competitive salary, extended health benefits, flex-time schedules, and encouragement and support for professional development.

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 :

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 :

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.