Labs R&D - Lead Engineer - UI and UX-R-230837

Our Purpose

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.

Title And Summary

Labs R&D - Lead Engineer - UI and UX

Labs R&D - Lead Engineer - UI and UX

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 Labs R&D - Lead Engineer - UI and UX to join the Mastercard Foundry Research and Development team in our Pune office. 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 AI based software solutions.

• Responsible for the analysis, design, and development of software solutions involving AI based features
• Design of Proof-of-Concepts and Minimum Viable Data Products (MVPs) using human-centric design principles and rapid prototyping (Lean UX and Design Thinking)
• Participate in "Design Thinking" workshops – collaborating cross-functionally with industry verticals, regional leads and end-users to ensure optimal digital data products
• Work on future state conceptual designs, driving experimentation that improves the quality of product design overall.
• Participate in active software development to bring the designs to fruition, including developing in html, CSS, JavaScript
• Develop and maintain web applications using React/Angular and related technologies
• 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

• Experience developing User Personas and user journeys to inform product design decisions
• Experience in rapid prototyping (Lean UX and Design Thinking)
• Experience in the implementation of creative, useable and compelling visual mock-ups and prototypes
• Experience of design-experiences across multiple media
• Experience using prototyping/wireframing tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Experience Design, Adobe Illustrator etc.
• Experience creating engaging PowerPoint Presentations, Figma Designs and Videos for Product concepts, reporting and demos
• An understanding of complex information architectures for digital applications
• Minimum 7 Year's experience working on UI projects using HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Experiencing developing UI screens which consumes Rest APIs. Good understanding of API calls and parsing the results returned by API's
• Good working experience working with frameworks like React and Angular
• 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
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS/Azure
• Experience with SQL and No-SQL databases
• Experience in developing RESTful APIs and microservices using Java good to have
• Knowledge of Spring Boot, Hibernate good to have
• Knowledge Azure Devops good to have
• Experience in full-stack development with Java good to have
• Experience designing scalable software architectures good to have
• Exposure developing software applications involving AI based features is good to have
• Knowledge of Python and related Data Science ecosystem for architecting software applications is a plus (no machine learning knowledge required)
  
  
  

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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