Mastercard is currently seeking Freshers for the position of Software Engineer in Pune. The role requires candidates to have a bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. This opportunity provides an entry point for recent graduates to embark on their career journey in software engineering within a globally recognized company like Mastercard. As a Software Engineer, you will have the chance to work on cutting-edge projects and contribute to innovative solutions in the field of technology and finance. Joining Mastercard in Pune offers an exciting environment where you can learn and grow professionally while making a significant impact on the company’s operations.
Company Name: Mastercard
Job Role: Lead Software Engineer
Education Required: Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.
Experience Required: Freshers
Job Location: Pune
Role and Responsibilities:
- Own complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution.
- Write 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.
- Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/ enhancements.
- Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners.
- Identify opportunities and build roadmaps to enhance primary service/ function.
- Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed.
- Drive seamless integration across all connected services to meet end-user expectations.
- Drive blameless postmortem culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings
- Introduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines.
- Advocate for engineering principles outside of the current organization/ platform.
- Provide development and architecture guidance to team members.
- Build relationships and effective partnerships across organizations.
- Write and evaluate recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one’s accomplishments.
- Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar.
- Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence.
- Encourage staff to share and seek knowledge within their Guild/ Program to drive the reuse of patterns/ libraries/ practices and enhance productivity.
Required Skills and Qualification:
- Has the ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., C, C+, C#, Java, JavaScript) and is familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerabilities.
- Has skills in building applications using open frameworks to achieve reuse and reduce development times (e.g., Spring Boot, Steeltoe, Angular, DXP, and others).
- Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to write interoperable and performant code.
- Has skills to undertake a technical review of code across applications and their dependencies to look for anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring.
- Has skills to understand customer journeys and ensure a Mastercard good experience by continuously reducing Mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for incidents and ensuring high availability (99.95% as a starting point).
- Has skills to simplify deployment and eliminate software and infrastructure snowflakes using standardized platforms, ephemeral instances, and automation.
- Has skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD using industry-standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, AWS/Azure pipelines, XL Release, others).
- Able to configure rules and build automation for code with vulnerability scanning and software composition analysis using standard tools (e.g., Sonar, Checkmarx, Nexus, JFrog XRay, Veracode, and others).
- Has skills to define, organize, and report on test runs for major, minor, and hotfix releases (including unit, component level, system level, customer journeys, past customer issues, and regulatory controls).
- Has skills to conduct various performance tests (e.g., load, spike, breakpoint, endurance) to understand application/ service limits and behaviors.
- bachelor’s degree in information systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.
