Software Engineer I

About the Role

• Responsible for the analysis, design, development, and delivery of software solutions.
• Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes, and best practices.
• Follows given directions and procedures in software delivery tasks, including code development, testing, and deployment.
• Delivers assigned work seeking guidance from experienced team members.
• Proactively seeks code reviews of their work from experienced members.
• Understands the big picture and end-to-end logical architecture of systems in ownership areas.
• Provides feedback and suggestions on areas to improve.
• Understands the use of Mastercard technology policies in everyday work.
• Demonstrates active learning and sharing of software practices via Guild/Engineering community initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Analysis, design, development, and delivery of software solutions.
• Definition of requirements for new applications and customizations.
• Adherence to standards, processes, and best practices.
• Software delivery tasks (code development, test, deployment).
• Seeking guidance and code reviews from experienced team members.
• Understanding system architecture and providing feedback for improvements.
• Applying Mastercard technology policies.
• Active learning and sharing of software practices.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Ability to write secure code in Java 17 and React JS.
• Familiar with Oracle and PostgreSQL databases.
• Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices.
• Applies tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx) for code quality scanning and anti-pattern measurement.
• Builds test code at unit, service, and integration levels.
• Understands basic design patterns (e.g., factory, adaptor, singleton, composite, observer, strategy, inversion of control).
• Understands requirement analysis, elaboration, prioritization, and effort estimation.
• Understands different SDLC practices (Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and their delivery situations.
• Understands basic engineering principles for building and running mission-critical software (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture).
• Familiar with different application patterns for business processes (e.g., APIs, event-driven services, batch services, web applications, big data).
• Understands Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) concepts, including automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization.
• Understands functional and non-functional testing types to elaborate and estimate test efforts.

Qualifications

• Corporate Security Responsibility is expected, including adherence to Mastercard’s security policies, ensuring confidentiality and integrity of information, reporting security violations, and completing mandatory security trainings.