Software Engineer II

The Role

What's it all about and what we expect you to do day to day

• Own software delivery tasks (code development, test, deployment) 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 the team's agile process and decisions.
• Pull from backlog and deliver work after seeking guidance from experienced team members and in partnership with the full scrum team.
• Understand the big picture and end-to-end logical architecture of systems in ownership areas.
• Provide feedback and suggestions on areas to improve.
• Understand the use of Mastercard technology policies in everyday work.
• Demonstrate active learning and sharing of software practices via Guild/Engineering community initiatives.
• Influence decisions made by the team.
• Assist peers and less experienced members.
• Assist in technical documentation of APIs and services being delivered.

All About You and What You Need To Bring

• Has ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, SQL).
• Familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT).
• Infrastructure as code and cloud-first software development knowledge experience preferred.
• Understands 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.
• Understands and builds test code at unit level, service level, and integration level to ensure code and functional coverage.
• Understands the use of basic design patterns (e.g., factory, adaptor, singleton, composite, observer, strategy, inversion of control).
• Understands requirement analysis being an essential part of delivering value to our customers and partners and participates in elaboration, prioritization, and effort estimation.
• Understands agile and modern SDLC practices (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Quality engineering) and the delivery situations they are used for.
• Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission-critical software capabilities (e.g., security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture).
• Familiar with different application patterns to implement different types of business processes (e.g., APIs, event-driven services, batch services, web applications, big data).
• Understands 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.
• Understands functional and non-functional testing types to elaborate and estimate test efforts.