Sr. Java Developer

As a Senior Software Engineer, You Will

• create designs and drive trade-off discussions a small collaborative team of product managers and software engineers;
• devise and develop microservices-based solutions focused on achieving positive customer outcomes, customer journeys and customer experience;
• apply best practices from previous industry experience, whilst adhering to our own engineering principles of writing high quality, secure code that is modular, functional and testable;
• perfect automated pipelines for code development, extensive testing and deployment into cloud-based environments in order to deliver accelerated product development;
• take true ownership for your team's software and actively engage in its maintenance characteristics, runtime properties and dependencies; including hardware, operating system and build;
• support production deployment, system maintenance and operations of the applications, even when things don't go as expected or incidents occur; responding to incidents as a member of the on-call support team;
• identify incident root cause and ensure the remediation of issues;
• drive ongoing, measurable improvements to the maintenance, operational and runtime characteristics of your team's software;
• provide feedback on peer designs, code, tests and automations, providing optimization and simplification recommendations;
• champion our adoption of technology standards and opinionated frameworks.

You Should Apply If

• you have solid experience with server-side, backend applications and technologies;
• you're comfortable working in a team that's exploring new ways of working;
• you enjoy sharing your knowledge and experience with your colleagues;
• you have strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, object-oriented development, cyber security, design patterns and core computer science concepts;
• you have expertise in modern software design principles, such as SOLID or DRY;
• you have experience in data modelling and database design for both relational and non-relational technologies;
• you have experience of RESTful API and stateless service design patterns and deployment;
• you have lots of experience developing using strongly-typed languages such as Java, Go, C, Scala, Kotlin, etc. – Java is the main language we use at Mastercard;
• you have developed for complex applications deployed in cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud using containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes;
• you're skilled in testing according to the Test Pyramid principles; automating unit, integration, contract and journey tests;
• you can build robust testing strategies to minimize defects by regression, performance, deployment verification and release testing processes; and,
• you're excited to build applications that have global impact and are used daily by 100s of millions of people.

It Would Also Be Great If

• you've used the Spring Framework components – it's what we use to create our cloud-ready applications;
• you've used Pivotal Cloud Foundry to deploy cloud-ready applications;
• you've built Event Driven applications;
• you've built 12-factor applications;
• you have “Full-stack” experience and can solve all aspects of the technology problem to deliver a solution to a production environment;