R&D Lead Web UI Developer Job Listing at Mastercard in Pune, MH (Job ID R-230837)

Description

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

R&D Lead Web UI Developer R&D Lead Web UI Developer

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview
Mastercard is looking for a talented Lead Software Front-end Development Engineer to join the Mastercard Foundry Research and Development team in our Pune Tech Hub. In this role you will be part of a highly agile team building exiting and innovative products delivered at scale to global markets.
Our team is built on a foundation of research and development, mining innovation internally, innovating new product lines with emerging technology, managing new products from inception to market validation and engaging strategically with start-ups to shape the future of commerce with and for our customers. At Mastercard you will help define the future of commerce globally.
This team will have a diverse focus both in terms of geography and variety of technology challenges driving hard to bring innovative payment solutions to market.
Role
This role involves working with a team of talented developers to develop high performance web based software solutions.
• Responsible for the analysis, design, and development of software solutions
• Contribute to the requirements for new applications and customisations, adhering to standards, processes, and best practices
• Ensure quality of one or more application codebases and alignment with development standards
• Applies technical capabilities within own discipline to coach and develop junior employees
• Designs highly complex applications, interfaces and integrations
• Integrates at an enterprise level using third-party middleware or messaging products, or by designing and implementing custom interfaces and mapping for those interfaces
• Responsible for performance engineering of the enterprise software architecture, and providing functional guidance, advice, and/or training to other application developers
• Software development, code reviews and day-to-day support duties
• Group-wide and external public speaking and other communications conveying domain level directions
• Researching and evaluating tools to support domain-specific needs
• Design of Proof-of-Concepts and Minimum Viable Data Products (MVPs) using human-centric design principles and rapid prototyping (Lean UX and Design Thinking)
• Develop engaging PowerPoint Presentations, Figma Designs and Videos for Product concepts, reporting and demos
• Work with cross functional teams spread across geographies on new product innovation and R&D initiatives

Skills
• Minimum 7 Year's experience working on Web UI development projects
• Experience developing User Personas and user journeys to inform product design decisions
• Comprehensive knowledge of Web Standards, Protocols and Architectures.
• Expertise & experience with a React framework, ideally Next.js but Gatsby, Vanilla React are acceptable.
• Expertise & experience in HTML, CSS (SCSS) and usage of Grid, Flex & CSS animations. Must have ability to write CSS and not rely on Tailwind or some other library.
• Experience with Developer Tools & Web performance (e.g. Lighthouse).
• Experience with Java JDK 8+ & Spring Boot, Shell Scripting, JSON.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or other container orchestration solutions.
• Expertise in Jest or other automated unit testing frameworks.
• Knowledge of CI/CD principles and tools such as Jenkins, Webpack, Maven, SonarQube etc.
• Experience in rapid prototyping (Lean UX and Design Thinking)
• Experience in the implementation of creative, useable and compelling visual mock-ups and prototypes
• An understanding of complex information architectures for digital applications
• Experiencing developing UI screens which consumes Rest APIs. Good understanding of API calls and parsing the results returned by API's
• Strong understanding of Web Programming
• Good knowledge of Jira, Git, Jenkins
• Development experience using Agile
• Expertise in coding using core JavaScript
• Writing Unit and Integration test cases
• Good troubleshooting skills
• Hand's on experience with performance improvements while loading a web page and calling API's
• Must have intermediate experience with UNIX/Linux

All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should:

• Loves creating innovative solutions to problems in a collaborative fun environment
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of modern software engineering concepts and methodologies
• Passionate about code quality and coding best practices
• Show initiative and demonstrate a willingness to take on challenging opportunities
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and strong collaboration skills
• Must be driven, highly motivated and a strong team-player
• Interested in mentoring and helping grow the skills of the next generation of Engineers
• Ability to lead projects managing timelines, documentation and solution delivery as an individual contributor or leading small teams
• Ability to work independently without constant supervision; Proficient in solving problems and taking decisions independently

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.

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