Software Engineer - Identity Network, Launch Program 2025 – Budapest, Hungary

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

Software Engineer - Identity Network, Launch Program 2025 – Budapest, Hungary

Mastercard Launch is an 18-month global development program providing recent graduates with opportunities and exposure. You will not only enhance your professional growth and skills in a global setting, you’ll launch your Mastercard career.
Overview:
The Cyber and Intelligence Solutions (C&I) team is responsible for product management and innovative product development of products and services to address the evolving risk & cyber security needs of all of MasterCard’s various customer segments. The C&I team was established with the responsibility to safeguard all aspects of safety and security in payments and have made great strides with new products, services and standards, positively impacting all aspects of our current and future payment eco-system.

Ekata, a Mastercard company, is the global standard in identity verification, providing businesses worldwide the ability to link any digital transaction to the human behind it. Our Ekata Identity Engine, the first and only of its kind, uses complex machine learning to combine features derived from the billions of transactions within our proprietary network and the data from our graph to deliver industry leading risk assessment solutions.  
We have an exciting opportunity available on our team!

2) Name of the Role: Software Engineer I – Identity Network
In this role You will:
• Work with big data platforms and technologies
• Develop in Scala and in Spark
• Get involved in SDLC
• Automate and maintain data workflows in a distributed environment
• Analyze and optimize ETL processes
• Be responsible for the performance and the tests of your code
• Work in SCRUM with continuous planning
• Work with active support of senior colleagues
• Work in cloud (AWS) environment

All About You: 
• Fluent in English (verbal and written)
• Interest of learning big data processes
• Interest in data science/analysis is a plus
• Interest in functional programming is a plus
• Fluent in at least one commonly used programming language, JVM based language especially Scala is a plus
• Open to work in non-regular working hours (start late finish late)
What you’ll need  
• To be available for start from 1st September 2025
• To be a Final Year Masters/Undergraduate Student or to have graduated no earlier than September 2024
• Strong verbal and written communication skills   
• Analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Strong strategic and conceptual aptitude 
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple projects concurrently 
• High-energy, can-do attitude, very strong sense of ownership and desire to succeed with commensurate analytical, technical, and strategic 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.