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
Job Summary:Providing Innovative, Secure, and Reliable Switching Solutions is the lifeblood of Mastercard Core Products, we are currently seeking a passionate, collaborative, and experienced software engineer to join the Payment Networks Team.
Are you an innovator who embraces, adopts, and studies the latest technology to solve challenging business problems?
Are you passionate about ensuring software is written with little to no bugs, and scalable?
If this describes you, Mastercard wants to talk to you about the creation of our new agile development team that will support Network Access solutions within the Payment Networks organization.
About You:- Engineering experience, preferably in high volume, low latency transaction processing systems (such as payments transaction switching, high frequency trading systems or global real-time event streaming systems etc.)
- Experience with quality engineering techniques and software quality tools.
- Experience in CI/CD pipeline creation via Jenkins.
- Delivered scalable products through a CI/CD pipeline deploying on-prem or in a public cloud infrastructure.
- Ensure quality across the full stack via rigorous CI/CD practices in all aspects of the SDLC (Builds, Test, and Deploy).
- Work closely with software engineers to build quality by ensuring proper test and code coverage, configuration quality, monitoring, early performance testing.
- Develop and implements QA standards, processes, tools and methodologies; partners with other functions to establish testing requirements.
- Translate complex system requirements and specs into test requirements and testing methods
- Strong writing and verbal communication skills
Preferred Skills:- Experienced in event driven systems (Apache Kafka, NATS, etc)
- Experience in financial system encryption (PIN Blocks, CHIP, CVC) would be beneficial
- Experience with testing frameworks and methodologies (Gtest, JUnit, mocking, etc.)
- Experienced in building platforms with Microservice architecture and RESTful APIs.
- Experience using cloud-native approaches running on Linux, leveraging Spring Boot
- Experience with virtualization like Cloud Foundry (PCF), Kubernetes (PKS), Docker etc.
- Experience with deployment via CI/CD.
- Experience with various coding languages Java, Go, C++,ESQL, etc.
Education
BS or MS in Computer Science
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.
Skills Required
- Engineering experience, preferably with high-volume, low-latency transaction processing systems
- Experience with quality engineering techniques and software quality tools
- Experience creating CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins
- Experience delivering scalable products through CI/CD pipelines on-premises or in public cloud infrastructure
- Experience ensuring software quality across builds, testing, and deployment
- Experience developing QA standards, processes, tools, and methodologies
- Ability to translate complex system requirements and specifications into test requirements and methods
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science
- Experience with event-driven systems such as Apache Kafka or NATS
- Experience with financial system encryption, including PIN Blocks, CHIP, or CVC
- Experience with testing frameworks and methodologies such as Gtest, JUnit, and mocking
- Experience building microservice platforms and RESTful APIs
- Experience with cloud-native approaches on Linux using Spring Boot
- Experience with Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, or Docker
- Experience with CI/CD deployment
- Experience with Java, Go, C++, or ESQL
Mastercard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement plans are highlighted as especially strong, featuring a notably generous company match and added financial-planning resources. Feedback suggests this component stands out as a key strength of the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family benefits are consistently portrayed as robust, including extended new-parent leave and assistance for fertility, adoption, and surrogacy. Feedback suggests these programs are a signature part of the offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is described as substantial, with multiple leave types and generous vacation and personal days noted in U.S. materials. Feedback suggests time off is frequently praised as a differentiator.
Mastercard Insights
What We Do
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re building a resilient 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.
Why Work With Us
We live the Mastercard Way: creating value in the communities we touch, growing together through the opportunities we see, and moving fast to innovate and scale. Our collaborative culture and our passionate people are the key to what we do, driving meaningful change as one team and connecting everyone to priceless possibilities.
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