Sr. Software Development Engineer

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

Sr. Software Development Engineer

Overview
Mastercard’s SpendingPulse team within the Economics & Locations Program is seeking a Senior Software Engineer. In this role you will bring your full stack software development skills to design, build, and scale the family of SpendingPulse applications to provide economic insights to our customers. Our daily tasks vary from further development of existing applications to designing and building new ones that provide fresh insights and target different customers. We work with industry standard web technologies and analyze large datasets using Big Data technologies within Hadoop and MS SQL Server to create scalable, high-performance solutions. The day-to-day tech stack you’ll work in includes MS SQL Server, ASP.NET Core MVC, React, Redux, and Typescript, with potential exposure to Hadoop and Databricks. We are looking for an innovative software engineer who can contribute to designing and building large features and thrive in a fast-paced, agile team. This individual will be part of a large, cross-functional team and collaborate closely with our Customer Experience, Product Management, Data Engineering, and Analytics teams, as well as our Software Engineering teams in both Prague and the United States.
Engineers work in small, flexible teams. Every team member contributes to designing, building, and testing features. There are no rigid organizational structures, and each team uses processes that work best for its members and projects.
Join a fast growing team!
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
* Scope, design, implement, and test complex features
* Drive performance, reliability, and readability in our code base, by writing and reviewing code
* Mentor junior software engineers and teammates
* Drive innovative improvements to team development processes
* Partner with Product Managers to develop a deep understanding of users and use cases and apply that knowledge to scoping and building new modules and features
* Participate in development cycles with an agile mindset, ensuring flexibility and responsiveness to changing priorities
* Collaborate with Data Scientists and Data Engineers to come up with best solutions
Ideal Candidate Qualifications
* Software engineering experience in an agile production environment
* Experience participating in design and implementation of complex features in enterprise
* Experience working with other developers on large projects
* Experience with object-oriented languages, front-end frameworks, and/or relational database technologies
* Strong technologist eager to learn new technologies and frameworks
* Customer-centric development approach
* Strong collaboration skills with experience collaborating with people across various roles around the globe
* Motivation, creativity, self-direction, and desire to thrive on small project teams
* Superior academic record with a degree in Computer Science or related technical field
* Strong written and verbal English communication skills

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.