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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.\nTitle and Summary\nSenior Software EngineerOverviewMastercard strives to be the trusted network for empowering small businesses to grow and thrive through compelling products and solutions accessible from our B2B customers and partners. This segment is central to Mastercard's growth strategy - not only because of the impact Small & Medium Enterprises have on local, regional, and global economies but also because of their significant role in the payment ecosystem as buyers and sellers.\nMastercard is a trusted partner by millions of small and medium businesses, enabling them to accept payments globally. This organization's goal is to add value by further addressing other areas, including their daily activities, business growth, cash flow management, etc.\nSmall and Medium businesses are the lifeline of the economy providing employment to more than 60% of the overall population. They face various challenges in their day-to-day execution; Mastercard is a market leader in providing solutions for them to accept payments globally at scale.\nGlobal SME Engineering's organizational goal is to build innovative solutions and products that enable Mastercard to provide competitive solutions to small and medium businesses, that complements the Payments ecosystem and experiences that are Payment adjacent. The goal is to create an ecosystem of products that Mastercard provide to the business owners that helps them focus on their core business.\nWe believe in lean teams delivering a lot of value, so you will be part of a lean team potentially driving impact for the product and platform buildout from scratch. We will be iterating quickly and doing frequent brainstorming sessions welcoming new ideas and diverse perspectives to conceptualize new features. One of the core values of our team is to learn from each other irrespective of your level.\nBe part of Mastercard and embrace the \"Mastercard Way\" of - \"Create Value, Grow Together and Move Fast\" by doing the right thing, focused on \"Decency, Inclusion, and Force for Good.\"\nRole\nAs Senior Software Engineering for the SME Services, this person will contribute to the Engineering team to one of the below areas,\n1) SME’s Business Essential Services required to run the business efficiently; the initial set of capabilities of focus are - 1) Cashflow Management 2) Open Banking integrations (retail/Wholesale) 3) Invoicing 4) Expense Management 5) SME’s Employee Experiences 6) Cyber risk solution integrations 7) Education/Training.\n2) SME’s Value-Added Service like Loyalty solutions, Market insights etc. which will enhance a merchant’s ability to run their business focused on Growth.\nOverview\nResponsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions\nDefines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices\nResponsibilities\nOwn complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution\nWrite code to build and enhance applications/services and promote code-reviews, code scanning, and other standard development practices to deliver high-quality artifacts to production.\nDefine, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements\nDrive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners\nIdentify opportunities and build roadmaps to enhance primary service/function\nAutomate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed.\nDrive seamless integration across all connected services to meet end-user expectations\nDrive blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings\nIntroduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines\nAdvocate for engineering principles outside of current organization/platform\nProvide development and architecture guidance to team members\nBuild relationships and effective partnerships across organizations\nWrite and evaluate recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one's accomplishments\nConduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar\nLead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence\nEncourage staff to share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity\nExperiences\nHas the ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., C, C+, C#, Java, JavaScript) and familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerabilities\nHas skills in building applications using open frameworks to achieve reuse and reduce development times (e.g., Spring Boot, Steeltoe, Angular, DXP, others)\nUnderstands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to write interoperable and performant code\nAble to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors\nHas skills to document and coach team on the development practices and coding guidelines (e.g., branching, peer reviews, library use, logging, scanning rules, test-driven development, error handling)\nUnderstands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading, all from the gang of four) to implement efficient code\nHas skills to undertake a technical review of code across applications and their dependencies to look for anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring\nUnderstands and elaborates technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritization 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