Lead Software Engineer - Java Backend

Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Lead Software Engineer - Java Backend
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
Lead Software Development Engineer
Overview
The FLD team is looking for a lead Software Engineer who will be responsible for designing, building and implementing the tools and frameworks that will provide automated testing for unit, functional, regression, performance testing, along with being used by QA Analysts and Testers.
• Develops industry standard testing strategies and suggest best tooling for the job• Develops/monitors quality gating and automation strategy for a given project looking at code coverage and API • Possesses a strong knowledge of programming, tools, architecture patterns, and TDD• Ensures Performance and Scalability for applications and platforms
All About You:• Overall career experience of 8-12 years into Software Engineering• Expert programming skills in Java, Spring Boot and reactive programming. • Experience with modern Web and Java EE platforms including Spring framework & components, Messaging (NATS, Kafka, MQ), Web & Application Server ( Server App Design & Technology Skills ), Web Services, REST ( Services Design & Technology Skills )• Experience in working with fast paced, modern architecture with extensive experience in building Object-oriented software, Spring boot applications, event driven microservices and actively participate in R&D on the new frameworks.• Hands on experience of scripting languages such as Unix/Linux shell scripts and batch jobs.• Expert in using one of the industry leading SQL/NoSQL Databases like Oracle, Cassandra, Mango DB• Strong communication skills, with an ability to express and design ideas to a development team• Strong debugging skills to support Tier 1 applications and has experience in simplifying complex implementations.• Working knowledge of Apache Kafka and Event Streaming architecture is preferred• Experience in monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, deployment automation through Chef is preferred• Bachelor of Engineering or Technology in Computer Science, Engineering or IT Required & Master's degree in related discipline is preferred
Additional/Desirable capabilities
Experience of working in Payments application Domain
Expertise in using atleast one of the industry leading Cloud Technologies like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.
Role• Lead and execute the baseline architecture implementations and design activities collaborating with other engineers or engineering teams.• As recognized subject matter expert, lead planning, design and implementation of technical solutions• Design and implement highly complex, distributed, scalable, resilient, high-performance services in the field of event streaming.• Provide guidance to teams on development standards, code reviews, automation and tools• Applies technical capabilities within own discipline to coach and develop junior employees• Responsible for performance engineering of the enterprise software architecture, and providing functional guidance, advice, and/or training to other application developers• Group-wide and external public speaking and other communications conveying domain level directions• Researching and evaluating alternate technical solutions or tools to support changing business needs• Collaborate with business and technical partners to identify and scope the opportunities, outline potential value and ROI, identify risks, benefits, and constraints
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.