Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
Mastercard Send (part of the Mastercard Move portfolio) enables near real-time money movement across billions of card, bank, and digital accounts globally. Program participants (banks, businesses, and digital players) use Send to modernize domestic and cross-border payments, making funds available to recipients almost instantly. Send supports critical use cases such as disbursements, gig-economy payouts, and person-to-person transfers, accelerating a structural shift toward payment immediacy where timely access to funds can be economically and socially transformative. Send has achieved strong adoption across banks, fintechs, and digital ecosystems and represents a significant growth engine within Mastercard. The program is on track to generate over $900M in revenue in FY2026 and is expected to grow by 50% over the next three years. For engineering applicants, Send offers the opportunity to build and operate a large-scale, real-time distributed system where reliability, performance, and trust directly translate into measurable business outcomes and meaningful socio-economic impact. As a Java Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) within the Mastercard Send team, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and operating highly resilient payment platforms that power near real-time money movement across the globe. You will combine strong software engineering expertise with operational excellence practices to ensure the reliability, scalability, security, and performance of mission-critical payment systems.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on experience building Java-based distributed systems, with strong knowledge of performance, scalability, and resiliency principles.
- Experience developing enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and cloud-native technologies.
- Experience translating business requirements into technical designs, architecture decisions, and API specifications.
- Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience applying data structures, software design principles, code reviews, secure coding practices, and automated testing (unit, functional, and integration) to build reliable, maintainable solutions.
- Experience with production support, on-call operations, incident management, root cause analysis, and service ownership.
- Experience implementing observability and monitoring solutions using tools such as OpenTelemetry and Dynatrace.
- Experience with encryption, secrets management, API security, and enterprise data protection standards.
- Experience with performance tuning, capacity planning, resiliency testing, and support of high-volume transaction systems.
- Hands-on experience supporting containerized workloads on Kubernetes, PCF, AWS, or Azure.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working in payment processing, financial services, or other high-volume transaction environments is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, and support cloud-native Java applications and microservices that power Mastercard Send solutions.
- Build scalable, resilient systems using distributed architecture and cloud-native design patterns.
- Develop and maintain secure, high-performing APIs and backend services.
- Drive production reliability through observability, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.
- Implement and champion SRE practices, including SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, and production readiness reviews.
- Automate deployments, testing, monitoring, and operational processes to improve reliability and reduce manual effort.
- Partner with product, platform, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions.
- Optimize application and platform performance to support high-volume, real-time transaction processing workloads.
- Mentor engineers and promote software engineering and operational excellence best practices.
Benefits
- insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
- flexible spending account and health savings account
- 16 weeks of new parent leave
- up to 20 days of bereavement leave
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
- 25 days of vacation time
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
