Overview
The Mastercard Merchant Acceptance Program is looking for a Lead Software Development Engineer to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.
Merchant Acceptance Program consists of products & solutions that aim to increase Mastercard's acceptance footprint and improving quality of card holder experience at the point of interaction.

Role :

• Work as a technical lead to deliver end-to-end product development.
• Full Stack Development using Microservices, Messaging/Event Driven Frameworks, CI/CD on a Cloud Native environment
• Ensure benchmarks are met on quality, performance, info security and other NFRs
• Guide and mentor teams effectively as per needs. Train developers on the technologies needed.
• Communicate effectively and coordinate with various global groups in MasterCard to ensure success of the projects, including Business Owners, Product Owners, Enterprise Architecture teams, other product teams etc.
• Lead various initiatives for improving automation, defect metrics and overall quality. Conduct various Proofs-of-concept as per technological and business needs
• Take responsibility for deciding the relevant tools, technologies and patterns that need to be implemented for the service

• 10 - 15 years of experienced hands-on technologist with very strong Object-Oriented Design and clean programming skills using the Java language and the SOLID design principles aimed at creating re-usable, scalable components
• Passionate about emerging technologies and trends, especially microservices, event driven architecture and modern caching/persistence mechanisms
• Strong experience in Product Development, Spring Boot framework and Cloud technology in an Agile (SAFe) Development Environment
• Ability to analyze, conceptualize and create cutting edge technical solutions based on the business needs
• Extensive experience in the development of online, real time application features
• Result Oriented Professional
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills involving Business Owners, Architecture teams, Development/Test teams, Vendors etc. Ability to guide teams on technology.
• Coordination and organization skills and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders and vendors across locations to ensure success of the project.
• Strong understanding, inclination, and experience of working in an Agile (SaFe) environment

• Java [J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA]
• Web [Angular, React, Javascript, jQuery, CSS, HTML]
• Excellent understanding of distributed cache and messaging system
• Database [Postgres] well versed in writing efficient and optimized SQL queries
• Expert in full stack development.
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Experience in implementing APIs
• Discipline of working in a continuous integration.
• Experienced in delivering commercial grade software
• Has been pro-active in creating better user experience, consumer value proposition
• Understands gaps in knowledge and has ability to source training online

• High energy, can-do attitude, strong desire to succeed
• Strong Analytical and skills
• Strong communication skills