Senior Software Engineer – Java/DevOps

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 (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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

Senior Software Engineer – Java/DevOps

Overview

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Role

The Mastercard/Vocalink UK Software Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build the next generation of our market-leading payment products.

About you

You will

Have extensive experience of end-to-end Java application development in an Agile Scrum environment.

Be able to understand and analyse user stories and requirements, lead solution designs, and translate these into coded features or solutions that are simple, functional, scalable, and maintainable.

Be equally comfortable in taking sole responsibility for delivery of features or working as part of a team.

Have a continuous improvement mind-set and be able to use a structured approach to technical problem analysis and solution.

Having good communication skills and working as a team player are essential. You must have an excellent command of verbal and written English and be focused on individual and team objectives as an active participant in the Agile/Scrum development process, completing assignments in time, and with the necessary quality.

Essential Skills

Design and development of distributed, high performance, high-availability, message-based Java applications on a Unix/Linux platform (with good knowledge of a Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) technology such as JMS).

Excellent knowledge and expertise in use of Core Java SE (1.8+) and Java EE (J2EE 7+) technologies.

Excellent knowledge and expertise in use of the Spring framework, including Spring Core, Spring Security, Spring-Boot and Spring MVC.

Excellent knowledge and expertise in designing, executing and analysing results of functional and non-functional test cases, including system performance tests. Experience in design and development of Test Automation frameworks.

Knowledge and expertise in use of RDBMS technologies including PL/SQL, and hands-on experience of working with Hibernate/JPA, JDBC etc.

Desirable Skills

Good knowledge of multithreading and caching approaches, including the use of JCS.

Good knowledge of Web 2.0 front-end technologies such as JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, CSS, Thymeleaf and HTML 5.

Some experience of using Camel EIP framework.

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.

Everyone wants easier ways to pay;

we invent them.

Checkout lines are slow;

we speed them along.

Merchants want more sales;

we give them data and insights.

People need financial access;

we connect them.

Corporate purchasing is complicated;

we make it simple.

Commuters are busy;

we speed them on their way.

Governments need greater efficiencies;

we help create them.

Small businesses are virtual;

we give them access to a world of buyers.

Retailers want to fight fraud;

we provide the tools.

Requisition ID: R-184493