Senior Software Engineer (Front-End) Job Listing at Mastercard in Arlington, VA (Job ID R-246526)

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

Senior Software Engineer (Front-End) Overview:

The CoreUI team within Foundational Services focuses on building front-end infrastructure. Our aim is to provide infrastructure that allows teams to quickly build accessible, modern, scalable, and high-performance front-end solutions. We work closely with market-facing product engineering teams to help them take maximum advantage of these capabilities and to meet their needs and the needs of their customers.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about engaging deeply with our design system and other products owned by the team. The ideal candidate will create an exceptional development experience for engineers who consume our products, whether through our design system or other foundational elements like base-level pages and styling. You will leverage your skills to provide reusable components that facilitate the development of diverse applications, ensuring they are accessible, modern, and high-performance.

Last month, the CoreUI team made significant strides in enhancing user experience and accessibility. They developed and tested changes to ensure UX components met Mastercard accessibility standards, engaged in technical discussions to refine visual UI designs and code implementation, and provided crucial support to consumers by debugging issues and guiding frontend implementation. Additionally, they planned infrastructure to enable applications to determine the source of a user's culture for optimal user experience and contributed to the architecture proposal for a new application, covering both frontend and backend aspects.

Responsibilities include the following:

Design and build React components that are flexible, reusable, responsive, and accessible.
Develop tooling and resources to enhance the design system, ensuring an outstanding experience for consuming teams and a great developer experience.
Collaborate with fellow engineers and designers to develop modern, powerful, and scalable front-end infrastructure that meets the needs of various applications. This collaboration includes providing in depth feedback on technical designs
Seek opportunities to enhance standards and streamline processes, improving team efficiency.
Contribute to the entire software development lifecycle, including planning, coding, testing, and deploying.
Apply best practices in front-end software engineering, such as component-based architecture, state management, and performance optimization, ensuring clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
Provide white-glove support to the product teams we support.
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team knowledge-sharing, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

All About You:

Understanding of one or more programming languages/technology stacks (we primarily work in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and LESS)
Familiarity with design systems, design tokens, and component-based UI development
Familiarity with relevant tools such as Storybook, Figma, NPM, etc.
Working knowledge of accessibility best practices, including WCAG standards, ARIA, etc.
Familiarity with front-end testing frameworks
Interest in staying up to date with emerging trends in front-end development and design systems
Eager and able to contribute to discussions around UI/UX design
Flexibility to learn and work in different parts of the stack
Interest in improving end-user experience and developer experience
Interest in mastering the ins and outs of the technologies you work with rather than just using them for the task at hand
Motivation, creativity, self-direction, and the desire to thrive in small project teams 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 reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

Arlington, Virginia: $132,000 - $212,000 USD

 Apply on company website