Lead Software Engineer (Java)

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Lead Software Engineer (Java)

Overview

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 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.

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments sector. We power payments and provide products and services for individuals and industries all around the world. Our people, technology, data and brand provide the capabilities that drive our success. We believe in connecting people to priceless possibilities.

As a company, we know that our success is driven by the skills, experience, integrity and mindset of the talent we hire. By building an inclusive, world-class culture, our employees have once-in-a-career opportunities to be a part of teams that have a greater impact on our community and our world. We invite you to join our team to find out how you, too, can start something priceless.

Overview

At Mastercard Cyber & Intelligence Solutions, we lead the industry in providing artificial intelligence for mission critical decision making. Our world-class software operates at scale to detect and inform in real-time, across tens of thousands of events per second. We are looking for a talented and passionate Lead Software Engineer to join our team in our Vancouver office.

Are you happiest when you’re taking all the pieces and making them work together without a hitch with rock-solid code?

Would you like to build across the full range of functionality of our global infrastructure as well as get opportunities to do technical design and architecture?

Are you excited about creating efficient tools and streamlined development experiences for our team?

Role

You will be a key member of our growing team, which is responsible for increasing service stability, adding application insights, enhancing deployment processes, and improving our products.

• Implement solutions that solve complicated challenges around performance, scaling, and security while instrumenting services to provide high quality insight into emerging issues
• Design and develop applications, system to system interfaces and complete software solutions, perform vendor-related activities, and create documentation such as user guides and software development guides
• Refine and enhance the development process used within our teams to drive improvements to development efficiency
• As a developer, you will manage your own time when accomplishing project goals and are encouraged to grow your skills with continual learning, workshops, conferences, and talks. Leadership is technical, meetings are short.
• As an operator, you will manage colonies of servers across multiple environments and regions, deploying updates, migrating databases, and architecting self-healing infinitely scaling services

All About You

A qualified candidate will be required to show proficiency in the following key areas:

• Demonstrated software development experience in a professional development setting Java experience, or experience with at least one language such as JavaScript, Java, C#, C++, Python, or Scala with some prior experience with Java
• Knowledge of testing frameworks and source control systems (Git)
• Experience designing, developing, and implementing scalable and resilient restful API services
• Experience with building and managing software packages and/or server images
• Experience in managing servers, networks, and infrastructure with broad knowledge of the following: Linux, networking, servers, virtualization, security, availability, resiliency, redundancy, alerting, and monitoring
• Familiarity with building scalable distributed data processing and visualization tools
• Strong problem-solving, algorithm design, and complexity analysis skills
• Exceptional communication, both written and spoken

Helpful To Have

• . Experience writing documentation and creating diagrams
• Experience working with cloud-based server environments
• . Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, etc. or other cloud providers
• . Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools, such as CloudFormation or Terraform
• . Familiarity with DevOps tools such as Packer, Vagrant, Vault, and Consul
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Graphite, Influx, Statsd, Kibana and Logstash
• . Familiarity with databases, such as Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, MySQL, or Postgres
• . Bachelor of Computer Science, equivalent degree or equivalent work experience
• . An interest in fraud detection and security

To find US Salary Ranges, visit People Place. Under the Compensation tab, select "Salary Structures." Within the text of "Salary Structures," click on the link "salary structures 2025," through which you will be able to access the salary ranges for each Mastercard job family. For more information regarding US benefits, visit People Place and review the Benefits tab and the Time Off & Leave tab.