Senior Software Engineer (Big Data)

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 (Big Data)

SpendingPulse is a data product that provides economic insights to our customers. We analyze billions of transactions across the globe to power our platform and create reports on historical consumer spending, predictions of future spending, and commentary on the current economic climate for our customers across financial, retail, and government sectors across the globe. We are looking for an innovative engineer who will design data pipelines on our in-house, 800+ node Hadoop cluster and expand our footprint to cloud infrastructure with Databricks. We work closely with our data scientists, product managers, and data warehouse teams to create reliable, scalable, and flexible data pipelines. The team is primarily located in Virginia, New York, the Czech Republic, and India. This position requires a strong foundation in programming and familiarity with SQL. Big data experience is preferred but not required. Every team member contributes to designing, building, and testing new features.
The SpendingPulse team is currently scaling the product globally, adding new countries, new sectors, and expanding with new features. As the product continues to grow, we must design our infrastructure and codebase to facilitate quality control and reliability for our customers.
Position Responsibilities:
As a Senior Software Engineer on the data pipeline team, you will:
* Design and build scalable and maintainable data pipelines to expand SpendingPulse with new features and deliver insights from economic trends.
* Drive performance, reliability, and readability in our code base, allowing us to troubleshoot quickly and publish data consistently.
* Test your code and review code from other team members.
* Continuously innovate and determine new approaches, tools, techniques, and technologies to solve business problems.
* Partner with roles across the organization including data scientists, product managers, and system administrators to determine the highest priority problems to solve.
Ideal Candidate Qualifications:
* Strong foundation in programming. Python is preferred, though experience in other high-level languages is sufficient.
* Familiarity with objected-oriented software design.
* Familiarity with SQL, writing readable and well-tuned queries.
* Familiarity with Linux command line.
* Experience with big data technologies is a bonus.
* Experience with cloud technologies is a bonus.
* Clear communicator; strong written and verbal English skills.
* Motivation, creativity, self-direction, and desire to thrive on small project teams.
* Ability to mentor and support colleagues, fostering growth and collaboration within the team across roles and of varying levels of technical understanding.
* Strong technologist eager to learn new tools and frameworks.
* Passion for analytical / quantitative problem solving.
* Eager to experiment with new team processes and innovate on development approaches.
Location Requirement: This is a hybrid position based in Mastercard's Arlington, Virginia Tech Hub.
This role is not eligible for Mastercard’s work authorization sponsorship. As such, candidates must be eligible to work in the United States, now as well as in the future, without employer sponsorship.
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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