The role involves leading a team in software engineering with a focus on Java backend development, project management, and technical guidance while promoting development best practices.
Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Manager, Software Engineering - (Java - Backend)
Who is Mastercard?
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.
Overview• The Decision Management program enables intelligent decision based products through streaming analytics with the ability to govern these decisions and manage their outcomes with business agility.• This program leverages business rules & AI engines, a streaming big data cluster, an in memory data grids, APIs, & UIs to deliver real time decisions at global scale• This person will be responsible for leading the team as well as stay hands on.
We are looking for a Manager to join our DMP team in Vancouver office.
• Are you a looking for a role with right balance of people management and hands-on with the code?• Are you a strong technical programmer with experience leading a team?• Are you passionate about making a difference in this world?• Do you want to be part of a team which helps prevent fraud on every mastercard transaction in this world?
Role• Lead and manage the team including performance review and technical guidance.• Understand the business priorities and work on a roadmap so that business values are delivered.• Manage your own time while collaborating with teammates to accomplish project goals.• Collaborate with the architect and make sure the team is aligned with architecture guidelines.• Apply best development practices to help team well designed, maintainable, testable, scalable, and secure code.
Essential Knowledge/Experience• Strong People management skills.• Strong programming skills with deep knowledge of Java.• Strong leadership skills.• Good multi-tasking abilities.• Knowledge of Spring and other frameworks.• Good knowledge of unit testing and mocking frameworks like junit, mockito or easymock.• Good knowledge of SQL and experience working with Oracle.• Experience working with high performance applications. • Good problem diagnostic and creative problem solving skills.• Strong organizational skills; able to manage multiple tasks within the constraints and timelines determined by business needs.
Desirable Skills:
• Experience with IBM ILOG/ODM and Pivotal Gemfire Grid.• Experience with PCF, Dockers or Kubernetes etc.• Experience with CI/CD, Splunk and other operation monitoring tool• BS in computer science or a related field preferred.
#AI
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
Pay Ranges
Vancouver, Canada: $127,000 - $203,000 CAD
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Manager, Software Engineering - (Java - Backend)
Who is Mastercard?
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.
Overview• The Decision Management program enables intelligent decision based products through streaming analytics with the ability to govern these decisions and manage their outcomes with business agility.• This program leverages business rules & AI engines, a streaming big data cluster, an in memory data grids, APIs, & UIs to deliver real time decisions at global scale• This person will be responsible for leading the team as well as stay hands on.
We are looking for a Manager to join our DMP team in Vancouver office.
• Are you a looking for a role with right balance of people management and hands-on with the code?• Are you a strong technical programmer with experience leading a team?• Are you passionate about making a difference in this world?• Do you want to be part of a team which helps prevent fraud on every mastercard transaction in this world?
Role• Lead and manage the team including performance review and technical guidance.• Understand the business priorities and work on a roadmap so that business values are delivered.• Manage your own time while collaborating with teammates to accomplish project goals.• Collaborate with the architect and make sure the team is aligned with architecture guidelines.• Apply best development practices to help team well designed, maintainable, testable, scalable, and secure code.
Essential Knowledge/Experience• Strong People management skills.• Strong programming skills with deep knowledge of Java.• Strong leadership skills.• Good multi-tasking abilities.• Knowledge of Spring and other frameworks.• Good knowledge of unit testing and mocking frameworks like junit, mockito or easymock.• Good knowledge of SQL and experience working with Oracle.• Experience working with high performance applications. • Good problem diagnostic and creative problem solving skills.• Strong organizational skills; able to manage multiple tasks within the constraints and timelines determined by business needs.
Desirable Skills:
• Experience with IBM ILOG/ODM and Pivotal Gemfire Grid.• Experience with PCF, Dockers or Kubernetes etc.• Experience with CI/CD, Splunk and other operation monitoring tool• BS in computer science or a related field preferred.
#AI
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
- Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
Pay Ranges
Vancouver, Canada: $127,000 - $203,000 CAD
Top Skills
Ci/Cd
Docker
Easymock
Ibm Ilog
Java
Junit
Kubernetes
Mockito
Odm
Oracle
Pcf
Pivotal Gemfire Grid
Splunk
Spring
SQL
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