Build and enhance Ethoca products across the full software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, configuration, and documentation. Develop scalable test automation frameworks, review quality solutions, promote shift-left practices, and contribute to architecture and design decisions. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, manage risks, integrate services, mentor engineers, and improve operational metrics. Work with microservices, distributed systems, cloud-native applications, APIs, CI/CD platforms, and data validation.
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
Senior Software Engineer
About Ethoca
Ethoca, a Mastercard company, is a global collaboration-based
technology services provider that connects card issuers and merchants
to combat fraud, enhance customer experience, and prevent disputes.
To support our continued growth and success, we are seeking a talented
Senior Software Engineer to join the Ethoca team. In this role you will
be part of a highly agile team building exciting and innovative products
delivered at scale to global markets.
Role
The Senior Software engineer will work within a cross-functional
development team to estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test,
deployment,
configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements and
enhance Ethoca's product suite. This position requires collaboration with
other engineering teams to deliver a wide range of strategic and tactical
solutions. The ideal candidate should be proficient in entire SDLC
including automation and product analysis. Given the diverse set of tools
and services used across the business, the candidate will be exposed to
various technologies and should possess a willingness to learn and
adapt. You are passionate about design and technology and
committed to doing things properly to avoid tech debt.
• Participate in team prioritisation discussions with Product/Business
stakeholders.• Estimate and own delivery tasks (dev, test, deployment,
configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements.• Drive code/design/process trade-off discussions within their team when
required.• Report status and manage risks within their primary application/service.• Drive integration of services focusing on customer journey and
experience• Perform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product
owners.• Understands operational and engineering experience and actively
works to
improve experience and metrics in the ownership area.• Develop a complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture
and
dependency systems.• Drive adoption of technology standards and opinionated frameworks,
and
review coding, test, and automation work of team members• Mentor and guide new and less-experienced team members.
Test Automation & Framework Development• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated validation
frameworks.
Engineering Excellence• Review test architecture, automation code, and quality
solutions.• Drive shift-left quality practices.• Participate in design reviews and provide quality-focused
recommendations during architecture discussions.
All About You
Required Qualifications• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or
related discipline.• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering with
exposure to entire SDLC.• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as
Java, Python, JavaScript.• Experience building automation frameworks from the ground
up.• Strong experience with:• REST APIs• Microservices• Event-driven architectures• Distributed systems• Cloud-native applications• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitLab, Jenkins,
GitHub Actions, or equivalent.• Experience with automation tools such as:• Selenium• Playwright• Cypress• Rest Assured• Postman• Good understanding of Data build tool (DBT) testing to
ensure data quality, reliability, and accuracy across data engineering
pipelines.• Strong experience with SQL and data analysis and
validation.• Strong understanding of Agile and DevOps practices
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:
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
Senior Software Engineer
About Ethoca
Ethoca, a Mastercard company, is a global collaboration-based
technology services provider that connects card issuers and merchants
to combat fraud, enhance customer experience, and prevent disputes.
To support our continued growth and success, we are seeking a talented
Senior Software Engineer to join the Ethoca team. In this role you will
be part of a highly agile team building exciting and innovative products
delivered at scale to global markets.
Role
The Senior Software engineer will work within a cross-functional
development team to estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test,
deployment,
configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements and
enhance Ethoca's product suite. This position requires collaboration with
other engineering teams to deliver a wide range of strategic and tactical
solutions. The ideal candidate should be proficient in entire SDLC
including automation and product analysis. Given the diverse set of tools
and services used across the business, the candidate will be exposed to
various technologies and should possess a willingness to learn and
adapt. You are passionate about design and technology and
committed to doing things properly to avoid tech debt.
• Participate in team prioritisation discussions with Product/Business
stakeholders.• Estimate and own delivery tasks (dev, test, deployment,
configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements.• Drive code/design/process trade-off discussions within their team when
required.• Report status and manage risks within their primary application/service.• Drive integration of services focusing on customer journey and
experience• Perform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product
owners.• Understands operational and engineering experience and actively
works to
improve experience and metrics in the ownership area.• Develop a complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture
and
dependency systems.• Drive adoption of technology standards and opinionated frameworks,
and
review coding, test, and automation work of team members• Mentor and guide new and less-experienced team members.
Test Automation & Framework Development• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated validation
frameworks.
Engineering Excellence• Review test architecture, automation code, and quality
solutions.• Drive shift-left quality practices.• Participate in design reviews and provide quality-focused
recommendations during architecture discussions.
All About You
Required Qualifications• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or
related discipline.• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering with
exposure to entire SDLC.• Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as
Java, Python, JavaScript.• Experience building automation frameworks from the ground
up.• Strong experience with:• REST APIs• Microservices• Event-driven architectures• Distributed systems• Cloud-native applications• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitLab, Jenkins,
GitHub Actions, or equivalent.• Experience with automation tools such as:• Selenium• Playwright• Cypress• Rest Assured• Postman• Good understanding of Data build tool (DBT) testing to
ensure data quality, reliability, and accuracy across data engineering
pipelines.• Strong experience with SQL and data analysis and
validation.• Strong understanding of Agile and DevOps practices
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.
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