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Mastercard Lead Software Engineer - Java in Vancouver, British Columbia

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 culture of inclusion (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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.

Title and Summary

Lead Software Engineer - Java

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 Decision Management Program, which creates services for multiple business solutions to combat fraud and validate cardholder identity in real-time. Our patented platform processes billions of transactions per month, in milliseconds, using a multi-tiered, message-oriented approach for high performance and availability. Additionally, web applications and web services for managing fraud solutions round out the critical platform capabilities.

Role

This Lead Software Engineering role will be responsible for the performance and availability engineering for the platform, along with helping to build an engineering practice that empathizes doing performance engineering work earlier in the delivery lifecycle. This position will help lead new initiatives within the Decision Management organization around the next generation of infrastructure, Container-as-a-Service (CaaS), observability, and items related to the overall resilience and availability of our platform.

This architect role will partner with solution architects, software engineers, and other team roles to assess the platform’s needs, help design new capabilities, establish architectural roadmaps, design and run tests/proof-of-concepts, help troubleshoot problems, identify risks, and make recommendations. A successful candidate will ensure potential performance and availability challenges are proactively identified, recommendations implemented, and that the systems’ capacity and availability exceed requirements while ensuring the platform achieves business results.

All About You

The ideal candidate for this position should possess intermediate to advanced knowledge and experience in the following areas:

• Architecting and operating mission critical, high volume, low latency services onto elastic infrastructure ranging from public cloud to private datacenters

• Integrating AI, Business Rules and in-memory Distributed Grid technologies to produce the high performance and flexible decisioning systems required to protect Mastercard customers and offer them the best possible payment experience

• Real-time data streaming tools such as Kafka, Flink, NIFI, AWS Kinesis, Azure Stream Analytics

• Architecting high performance application data services against data stores with very large amounts of data

• Points of failure analysis and architect ‘always-on’ solutions by building resiliency architecture allowing seamless failovers between availability zones.

• Engaging with engineers at all levels across the engineering organization to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services.

• Passionate about solving complex performance and availability problems

• A wide breadth and depth of technical experience including Java, Linux, and Oracle

• Performance tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, Gatling, Dynatrace, software profilers, Splunk, etc.

• Capacity modeling/planning processes and tools

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate to an

audience at all levels within an organization.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.

Total Base Pay Range

122,000.00 - 195,000.00 CAD Annual

Mastercard is an 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. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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.

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