Senior Software Engineer
Mastercard•Published 1 days ago•First seen 1 days ago
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 EngineerWho 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 Core Authentication team is responsible for MasterCard’s safety and security related product development efforts to protect the integrity of the electronic payment system as well as ensure payments are convenient yet secure. The products are primarily focused on cyber security, authentication, fraud prevention, risk mitigation and dispute resolution across all payment channels as well as all stakeholders - issuers, acquirers, merchants, processors, and consumers. The key objectives of the solutions are to prove identity, reduce abandonments, reduce fraud, increase approval rates, and secure the payments ecosystem.
The Authentication Identity Check team within Core Payments is looking for a looking for a Product Manager - Technical to support the development of advanced, cloud-native applications that are transforming the payments landscape.
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 Senior 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
- Lead estimation and end-to-end ownership of delivery tasks, including design, development, testing, deployment, configuration, and documentation.
- Automate build, operate, and run aspects of software.
- Drive architectural, design, and engineering trade-off discussions within the team, balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability, and delivery timelines.
- Represent the team in demos, acceptance reviews, and stakeholder discussions, effectively communicating technical decisions, progress, and risks.
- 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
- Bachelor/master’s degree in computer science with a 5-6 yrs IT software solutions experience
- 5+ yrs or more must-have experience developing Java/SpringBoot APIs, backend applications
- Hands-on experience testing REST APIs and web applications using Postman, SoapUI, Groovy scripting, and BDD frameworks such as Cucumber or JBehave.
- Strong experience with Java, Spring Framework/Spring Boot, and Cloud Foundry-based application deployment and support.
- Strong hands-on experience with Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, and CI/CD pipeline implementation and maintenance.
- Experience of working with Agile methodologies.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with the ability to debug complex application and integration issues.
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple deliverables while meeting business timelines and commitments.
- Experience in payment processing platforms or other large-scale enterprise applications supporting high-volume global transactions.
- Experience collaborating with engineering teams to design and build scalable, reliable, performant, and testable systems.
- Apply advanced design patterns, API standards, and engineering best practices. Develop performant, maintainable software and troubleshoot complex issues across distributed, multi-tier architectures. Design and implement scalable, resilient data retention solutions.
- Lead planning, prioritization, and scoping of features, technical debt, and enhancements. Drive effective trade-off discussions with engineering, product, business, and management stakeholders. Partner with product owners to drive acceptance and signoffs. Understands and leverages engineering delivery metrics such as velocity, throughput, lead time, and defect trends to improve solution quality, predictability, and team effectiveness.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills. Clearly articulates complex technical concepts across technical and business domains. Demonstrates precision in design discussions and effectively communicates ideas across teams, seniority levels, and geographies.
- Design and implement effective testing approaches that ensure application reliability, performance, maintainability, and coverage of critical business scenarios. Understand when to leverage unit, integration, regression, and performance testing to build confidence in complex system changes.
- Highly effective at debugging complex issues and relentless in identifying root causes that span multiple services, systems, and product modules.
- Mentor junior engineers and interns to achieve greater productivity and independence. Share technical expertise, domain knowledge, and engineering best practices while encouraging continuous learning and growth.
- Manage build and release processes using standard engineering tools. Drive automation of software deployments, upgrades, patches, and releases through CI/CD pipelines. Demonstrate familiarity with observability, monitoring, and application health metrics.
- Demonstrate flexibility, professionalism, and empathy in team interactions. Build consensus through constructive discussions and proactively support teammates across functions, roles, and geographies.
- Proven ability to understand business and organizational needs and apply industry trends to solve complex design and architectural challenges across teams and organizational boundaries.
Corporate Security Responsibility
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.