Senior Software Engineer
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. The Decision Management Program (DMP) delivers industry‑leading intelligence that enables faster, smarter decisioning at global scale across the payment journey and beyond. Through a suite of products, DMP structures and applies complex business logic to help teams manage risk, adapt quickly to changing regulatory, geopolitical, or market conditions, and drive profitable customer engagements. Built for resiliency, availability, and future growth, DMP empowers Mastercard’s market-facing programs with agile, intelligent decision management capabilities worldwide. A Senior Software Engineer is an experienced individual contributor who designs, develops, tests, and maintains complex software solutions while serving as a technical leader and mentor within their team. This role applies deep technical expertise to solve non‑trivial problems, influence design decisions, and improve engineering practices, while collaborating closely with product, operations, and other stakeholders. Senior Software Engineers operate with high autonomy, contribute across the full software development lifecycle, and are expected to raise the technical bar for the team through code quality, system design, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Working experience across multiple programming languages (JAVA is a must) and frameworks
- High-energy, detail-oriented, proactive, and able to function independently under pressure
- Passion for continuous learning and challenging opportunities
- Strong communication skills—verbal and written—with strong relationship building, collaboration, and organizational skills
- Drives outcomes through strong commitment to timely delivery of key objectives
- Strong decision making skills and a continual improvement mindset
- Solid experience with software development processes and one or more Application Lifecycle Management tools
- Success producing high quality project design deliverables and documentation
- Demonstrated track record with AI
- Familiarity with performance tuning and automation
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or extensive equivalent experience)
Responsibilities
- Own software delivery tasks (code development, test, deployment, release, configuration and documentation) at an application/software component level
- Able to troubleshoot and refactor existing code for exceptional code quality.
- Adopt new languages and architecture patterns needed for the work.
- Participate and contribute to team’s agile process and decisions. Understand and contribute to Prioritization.
- Pull from backlog and deliver work after seeking guidance from experienced team members and in partnership with full scrum team.
- Automate build, operate, and run aspects of software
- Drive code/design/process trade-off discussions within their team when required
- Drive integration of services focusing on customer journey and experience
- Perform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product owners
- Understands operational and engineering experience, actively works to improve experience and metrics in ownership area
- Develop complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems.
- Drive adoption of technology standards and opinionated frameworks, and review coding, test, and automation work of team members
- Mentor and guide new and less-experienced team members
- Identify opportunities to improve an overall process and trim waste
- Share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
