Sr. Software Engineer

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

Sr. Software Engineer

Job Description

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
The Mastercard Payment Networks team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help advance our customer experience strategy through continuous innovation and problem solving. We’re looking for someone who is eager to learn Mastercard’s switching solutions, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and who brings an entrepreneurial mindset to their work.

The Role
What this role involves and what you will do day to day:
• Take ownership of software delivery activities including development, testing, and deployment at an application or component level.
• Troubleshoot, refactor, and enhance existing code to uphold exceptional code quality.
• Learn and adopt new programming languages, frameworks, and architectural patterns as needed.
• Actively participate in the team’s Agile ceremonies and contribute to planning and decision-making.
• Pick tasks from the backlog, seek guidance when required, and deliver in collaboration with the full scrum team.
• Understand the broader system view, including end to end logical architecture of your domain.
• Provide thoughtful feedback and suggestions to improve engineering practices and product quality.
• Apply Mastercard’s technology policies in day-to-day work.
• Engage in continuous learning and contribute to engineering guilds and community initiatives.
• Influence team decisions and support peers and less experienced engineers.
• Assist in preparing technical documentation for APIs and services.

All About You – Skills & Experience Needed
Core Engineering Skills
• Strong Java Full Stack engineering background with attention to scalable design and code quality.
• Hands-on experience developing Java 8+ applications using SOLID principles, design patterns, and modern microservices architecture with Spring Boot and event-driven patterns.
• Working knowledge of messaging technologies and integration patterns such as Apache Kafka, NATS, etc.
• Familiarity with stateful stream processing concepts and foundational understanding of Apache Flink.
• Strong understanding of secure coding standards (OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT).
• Good background in cloud-first development and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
Quality, Tooling & DevOps Practices
• Strong understanding of Git branching strategies (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review best practices.
• Ability to use engineering quality tools such as Sonar, Checkmarx, etc., to identify and fix code quality issues.
• Experience building unit, service-level, and integration-level tests to ensure comprehensive coverage.
• Familiarity with common design patterns including Chain Of Responsibility, Factory, Adapter, Singleton, Composite, Observer, Strategy, and IoC.
• Understands the importance of requirement analysis and participates in elaboration, prioritization, and estimation sessions.
• Solid understanding of Agile and modern SDLC practices such as Scrum, Kanban, CI/CD, DevOps, and Quality Engineering.
Architecture & System Engineering
• Good understanding of engineering principles needed to build and operate mission critical systems, including security, observability, performance, and fault tolerance.
• Familiarity with different application patterns (APIs, event-driven services, batch services, web applications, big data) and when to use them.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automation, containerization, and virtualization concepts.
• Ability to write automation scripts in languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, Bash, Perl, or Groovy to support repeatable engineering workflows.
Testing & Quality Assurance
• Clear understanding of functional and non-functional testing methods and ability to estimate testing effort appropriately.

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.