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

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.

Technology at Mastercard

What we create today will define tomorrow. Revolutionary technologies that reshape the digital economy to be more connected and inclusive than ever before. Safer, faster, more sustainable.

And we need the best people to do it. Technologists who are energized by the challenges of a truly global network. With the talent and vision to create the critical systems and products that power global commerce and connect people everywhere to the vital goods and services they need every day.

Working at Mastercard means being part of a unique culture. Inclusive and diverse, a rich collaboration of ideas and perspectives. A place that celebrates your strengths, values your experiences, and offers you the flexibility to shape a career across disciplines and continents. And the opportunity to work alongside experts and leaders at every level of the business, improving what exists, and inventing what’s next.

About the role

Software Engineers at Mastercard design and code a variety of applications covering transaction processing, analytics, user interfaces, and APIs using a blend of cutting-edge technologies across big data, distributed systems, machine learning, and more. As a Software Engineer, you will deliver these products and solutions with speed and agility as part of a small team. This will involve developing high-performing, highly scalable software solutions and products for some of the world’s top brands. Specific tasks vary depending on the project and the business unit that you join in.

All staff at Mastercard are expected to demonstrate 'Mastercard Way' cultural values every day - own it, simplify it, sense of urgency, thoughtful risk-taking, unlock potential, and be inclusive – with a relentless focus on our customers. As a Senior Software Engineer at Mastercard, you are expected to perform the following general responsibilities:

• Help lead team prioritization discussions in close collaboration with Product and Business stakeholders
• Estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation)
• Automate build, operate, and run aspects of software
• Drive code/design/process trade-off discussions within their team when required
• Be a voice of the team, performing demos/acceptance discussions with Product owners and confidently communicating elsewhere when needed
• Drive adoption of technology standards and practices and review code, test, and automation work of team members
• Mentor and guide new and less-experienced team members

All about you

• 6+ years of back end engineering experience in an agile production environment.
• Good knowledge on card domain.
• Proficient in facilitating AI coding tool for expedite development tasks.
• Experience leading the design and implementation of complex features in event driven applications.
• Experience leading a large project and working with other developers.
• Strong technologist eager to learn new technologies and frameworks. The following is a plus:
• Proficiency with Java JDK 17, Spring Boot, Kafka, Spring Security, Maven, Hibernate / JPA, REST, and SQL Server or other object-oriented languages and/or relational database technologies.
• Solid experience with event driven architecture.
• Experience with SQL, Multi-threading, Message Queuing & Distributed Systems.
• Experience with Design Patterns.
• Expertise in Junit or other automated unit testing frameworks.Knowledge of Splunk or other alerting and monitoring solutions.
• Fluent in the use of Git, Jenkins.
• Knowledge of cloud native development such as cloud foundry, AWS, etc.
• Customer-centric development approach.
• Passion for analytical / quantitative problem solving.
• Ability to identify and implement improvements to team development processes.
• Strong collaboration skills with experience collaborating across many people, roles, and geographies.
• Motivation, creativity, self-direction, and desire to thrive on small project teams.
• Superior academic record with a degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

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.