Job Description

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 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 Engineer

Job Overview:

Mastercard is dedicated to inclusive economic growth for all people across the globe. The mandate of the Humanitarian & Development (H&D) team is to transform communities at the Base of the Pyramid (BOP). We leverage our digital technology and innovate new business models to digitalize essential daily services - provisioning healthcare, distributing agriculture subsidies, streamlining small merchant supply chains, etc. By so doing, we go well beyond Mastercard's traditional payments remit, and critically, increase our reach to the 1+ billion previously unserved consumers at the BOP.

Community Pass is a social impact business at Mastercard that enables delivery of critical services to underserved, remote, and frequently offline communities. The Community Pass digital platform leverages a functional identity, a shared wallet, a digital acceptance device, and a safe and secure data platform to enable digital life transactions. Through Community Pass, service providers can more effectively reach underserved populations to provide education, humanitarian aid, micro-commerce, and healthcare services, and enable smallholder farmers with access to agricultural markets and financial services.

As part of community pass team, an exciting, fast paced environment developing payment solutions in the mobile and e-commerce space, this position will be responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions. Candidate will define requirements for new applications and customization adhering to MasterCard standards, processes and best practices. Candidate will develop, customize, and test applications to integrate to MasterCard's specifications and provide leadership, mentoring, and technical training to other team members.

Major Accountabilities:

• Plan, design and develop technical solutions and alternatives to meet business requirements in adherence with MasterCard standards, processes and best practices.
• Lead day to day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market.
• Accountable for full systems development life cycle including creating high quality requirements documents, use-cases, design and other technical artifacts including but not limited to detailed test strategy/test design, performance benchmarking, release rollout and deployment plans, contingency/back-out plans, feasibility study, cost and time analysis and detailed estimates.
• Perform system maintenance, production incident problem management, identification of root cause, remediation of the problems and on-call pager support schedule. Select appropriate technical frameworks and solution delivery methodology. Adapt to the technical artifact templates per the needs of the project and technology. Contribute ideas to help ensure that required standards and processes are in place. Maintain solution and technology road maps.
• Research and evaluate current and upcoming technologies and frameworks.
• Participate in PoCs (Proof of Concept) and help the Department with selection of Vendor Solutions, Technologies, Methodologies and Frameworks. .Collaborate with Vendor Resources for Support of Products.
• Conduct brownbag sessions on new and upcoming technologies, methodologies and application appropriate frameworks. Ensure knowledge transfer of vendor technology to MasterCard staff. Provide technical training to the other team members.
• Follow and promote Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes in the department. Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency. Mentor and guide other team members during all phases of the SDLC. Ensure adequate test coverage in Unit Testing, System Testing/Integration Testing and Performance Testing. Perform Quality Inspections and Walkthroughs throughout the SDLC including Requirements Review, Design Review, Code Review and Security Review to ensure compliance with MasterCard standards.
• Co-ordinate external development and manage day to day activities.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.

Knowledge / Experience:

• 3 to 5 years of experience in related field.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in delivering Digital/e-commerce applications is strongly preferred.
• Broad understanding of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies is required.
• Demonstrate MC Core Competencies.

Skills/ Abilities:

• Good understanding of EMV Contact and Contact less cards including but not limited Contact and Contactless protocols, File system , Security Constrains, Pre and post Personalization process etc..
• Good understanding of overall NFC eco-system along with Android including NFC infra like readers
• Good understanding of cryptography algorithms
• Hands on experience and expert on working with Kotlin/core Java and Android framework
• Hands on multi-threaded coding experience along with synchronous and asynchronous code, memory management, performance tuning, resource optimization
• Excellent debugging skills using command line and Eclipse (crashes and memory leaks)
• Hands on experience in android automation, writing Android Unit test cases, working with Maven/Ant, GIT
• Hands on experience of using Android Sutdio, Eclipse/My Eclipse IDE, UML tools, MS Word and PowerPoint
• Ability to be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and able to function under pressure in an independent environment along with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.
• Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written - and strong relationship, collaboration skills and organizational skills.
• Must provide the necessary skills to have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.
• Ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies, frameworks and tools and support multiple concurrent activities and to interface with external / internal resources, working as a member of a matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team.

COVID-19 Considerations

In many locations, we've implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by video or phone. In addition, in our NYC offices, as required by law, only individuals who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be permitted inside Mastercard offices unless a reasonable accommodation has been approved in advance.

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.