Senior Software Engineer

Mastercard • Arlington, VA

28d • Hybrid

About The Position

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 Overview: Mastercard’s Portfolio Intelligence team, part of the Services organization, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build high-performance analytics platforms that enable businesses around the world to unlock greater value from their data. In this role, you will leverage your full-stack development expertise to design, build, deploy, and scale real-time, interactive applications used by thousands of clients globally. These applications empower users to benchmark portfolio performance, monitor key performance indicators, and generate actionable dashboards and reports using Mastercard’s rich data assets. Our next generation platform blends industry-leading analytics, advanced software architecture, and the latest web technologies. You will play a vital role within a rapidly growing organization, while working closely with experienced and driven engineers to solve challenging problems. Engineers work in small, flexible teams. Every team member contributes to designing, building, and testing features. We take an agile approach to software development and practice continuous integration and delivery. The range of work that a team will encounter varies from front-end web development to writing server-side calculation code to database work. We prefer no rigid organizational structures; each team uses processes that work the best for its members and projects. You will be working closely with our US teams based in Arlington, VA, New York City, NY, and Pune, India. This is a hybrid position based in Arlington, VA, requiring three days per week onsite.

Requirements

• Hands-on software engineering experience, with a strong background in full-stack development, building scalable, high-performance applications.
• Previous experience as a Senior Software Engineer or equivalent, demonstrating the ability to lead technical design, mentor team members, and deliver complex projects is preferred.
• Full-stack development expertise across UI, microservices architecture, and database technologies.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, React, and PostgreSQL; experience with Snowflake, GitHub CoPilot is a plus.
• Solid understanding of software design patterns, system architecture, data structures, and algorithms, with experience designing maintainable, resilient, and high-performance systems.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex, real-world technical challenges and innovate with large-scale data sets.
• Proven ability to thrive in collaborative, Agile development environments, contributing to team planning, execution, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving mindset, initiative, and creativity in approaching new challenges.
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics, or a related field. Equivalent practical experience may also be considered.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, service-oriented software architectures supporting analytics-driven applications.
• Produce well-structured, maintainable code using modern design patterns and principles that ensure separation of concerns.
• Lead technical planning, feature scoping, and implementation efforts for the development team.
• Create cutting-edge algorithms and analytical techniques that can handle on-the-fly processing across hundreds of dimensions.
• Drive the development of robust web applications and continuously enhance product capabilities.
• Leverage emerging technologies and innovative approaches to optimize performance across large-scale data environments.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver scalable and resilient applications aligned with business needs.
• Apply expertise in computer science, mathematics, and statistics to address complex challenges faced by global organizations.
• Mentor team members and contribute to continuous improvement of development practices and code quality.
• Support deployment strategies and database optimization efforts for applications developed by the team.

Benefits

• insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
• flexible spending account and health savings account
• paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
• 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level