Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Requirements

• Have hands-on experience working on Apache Kafka and Stream processing platform Apache Flink
• Knows important platform metrics of Kafka and Apache Flink, and has worked on building observability around that
• Has ability to write secure code by following the secure coding standards and practices
• Familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management
• Understand and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices
• Apply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity
• Has skills in test driven and behavior driven development (TDD and BDD) to build just enough code and collaborate on the desired functionality
• Understands the use of basic design patterns (e.g., factory, adaptor, singleton, composite, observer, strategy, inversion of control)
• Understands 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
• Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization and effort estimation
• Experienced in agile and modern SDLC practices (Scrum/Kanban/Continuous Delivery/DevOps/Quality engineering) and the delivery situations they are used for
• Has skills to elaborate and estimate non-functional requirements, including security (e.g., data protection, authentication, authorization), regulatory, and performance (SLAs, throughput, transactions per second)
• 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, AWS/Azure pipelines, XL Release, others)
• Familiar with different application patterns to implement different types of business processes (e.g., APIs, event-driven-services, batch-services, web-applications, big data)
• Experience in Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization
• Has ability to write code (in languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, Bash, Perl, Groovy) to build automation tasks that are repeatable and efficient
• Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors
• Has skills to conduct product demos and co-ordinate with product owners to drive product acceptance signoffs
• 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)

Responsibilities

• Own software delivery tasks (code development, test, deployment, release, configuration and documentation) at an application/software component level
• Able to troubleshoot and refactor existing code for exceptional code quality
• Adopt new languages and architecture patterns needed for the work
• Participate and contribute to team’s agile process and decisions
• Pull from backlog and deliver work after seeking guidance from experienced team members and in partnership with full scrum team
• Automate build, operate, and run aspects of software
• Drive code/design/process trade-off discussions within their team when required
• Drive integration of services focusing on customer journey and experience
• Perform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product owners
• Understands operational and engineering experience, actively works to improve experience and metrics in ownership area
• Develop complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems
• Drive adoption of technology standards and opinionated frameworks, and review coding, test, and automation work of team members
• Mentor and guide new and less-experienced team members
• Identify opportunities to improve an overall process and trim waste
• Share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity

Preferred Qualifications

• Infrastructure as code and cloud first software development knowledge experience preferred