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Lead Software Engineer (Java - SDET)

Mastercard · Vancouver, Canada

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 - SDET)

Who is Mastercard?

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.

Overview
Be part of the AI&DPE team developing new capabilities for MasterCard's Decision Management Platform, which serves as the core for multiple business solutions to combat fraud and validate cardholder identity. Our patented Java-based platform processes billions of transactions per month in tens of milliseconds using a multi-tiered, message-oriented approach for high performance and availability.

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our DMP team in the Vancouver office.

• Are you a strong technical engineer with experience working on high-performance applications?
• Are you excited about getting a 360-degree view of the coding world - writing code to develop a piece of code as well as writing code to test it?
• Are you passionate about making a difference in this world?
• Do you want to be part of a team which helps prevent fraud on every Mastercard transaction in the world?

Role
This role involves working with a team of talented engineers to develop high-performance, low-latency Java-based solutions on the Fraud Management Platform. In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Work closely with technical leads for assigned projects to assist in design and implementation tasks
• Design and implementation of innovative, low-latency, high-performance Java-based capabilities on the Mastercard Fraud Platform.
• Work as part of a co-located Agile Scrum team.
• Define and Lead Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes in the department. Ensure adequate test coverage in Unit Testing, System Testing/Integration Testing and Performance Testing.
• Documents performance test strategies and test plans; translates complex system requirements and specs into test requirements and testing methods.
• Participates in requirements review and performance testing activities; monitors resolutions and retains documentation.
• Identifies and implements complex automation efforts; replicates and resolves production issues for single application
• Defines and implements best practices for end-to-end application performance management solutions; focuses on emerging technologies
• Assists in vendor assessment and evaluates and recommends software development tools
• Manage medium-sized project/initiatives as an individual contributor with advanced knowledge within discipline, leading a segment of several initiatives or a larger initiative and assigns day-to-day work.
• Translates complex system requirements and specs into test requirements and testing methods
• Acts as first-review for project-level reviews, walkthroughs and inspections
• Directs evaluation of manual testing tools for automation opportunities
• Develop high-quality, scalable and secure software solutions.
• Assist with operational issues by troubleshooting incidents.
• Research alternative technical solutions to meet changing business needs.
• Work with project team to meet due dates, while working through emerging issues and recommending solutions.
• Produce design documentation in accordance with Mastercard documentation standards.

All About You
• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and have the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment.
• Must provide the necessary skills to have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.
• Possesses strong communication skills -- both verbal and written – and strong relationship, collaborative skills and organizational skills.
• Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member of a geographically distributed project team.
• Good knowledge of Agile software development processes.
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment, using VI editor and general command line proficiency

Essential Skills:
• Proficiency with Java JDK 8 or greater.
• Creating and debugging J2EE REST Web Services, gRPC-based service development and Web Applications
• Database experience, including Oracle and SQL scripting
• Experience with Spring Framework (including Spring Boot) and Maven
• Experience writing unit tests with Junit and Mockito
• Experience working with JBoss and/or Apache Tomcat
• Experience with Git

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in Canada, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive pay based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program.

Pay Ranges

Vancouver, Canada: $127,000 - $203,000 CAD

QA & Testing pay context

Based on 765 disclosed QA & Testing salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $120K/year, with most offers between $97K and $160K (10th–90th percentile: $82K–$199K).

This posting lists $127K–$203K, above the $120K market median.

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