Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Overview: 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, fintech's, and digital ecosystems and represents a significant growth engine within Mastercard. The program is on track to generate over $600M in revenue in FY2025 and is expected to grow by 50% over the next three years. For engineering leaders, 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. All About You: Deep hands-on background in Java based distributed systems, with a strong grasp of performance, resilience, and scalability trade-offs. Lead end‑to-end development of enterprise applications using Java/J2EE and modern frameworks. Translate business requirements into technical designs, architecture diagrams, and API specifications. Experienced in agile and modern SDLC practices (Scrum/Kanban/Continuous Delivery/DevOps/Quality engineering) and the delivery situations they are used for. Build scalable, resilient systems using microservices, event‑driven patterns, and distributed system principles. Drive code quality, design reviews, automated testing, CI/CD adoption, and secure development practices. Ensure solutions meet Mastercard’s standards for security, performance, and compliance. Support production systems, lead incident resolution, and perform root‑cause analysis. Conduct POCs, evaluate new technologies, and contribute to platform modernization. Mentor engineers and collaborate with cross‑functional and offshore teams to ensure consistent delivery.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on background in Java based distributed systems, with a strong grasp of performance, resilience, and scalability trade-offs.
- Experienced in agile and modern SDLC practices (Scrum/Kanban/Continuous Delivery/DevOps/Quality engineering) and the delivery situations they are used for.
- Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Batch REST/SOAP, multithreading, JVM tuning Spark, HDFS, Scala, Python Kafka, Apache NIFI AES, RSA, JWE/JWS, OAuth2 Secure coding (OWASP, PCI‑DSS), certificate/key management Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis SQL optimization, data modeling Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes PCF, AWS, Azure, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, AppDynamics SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, chaos testing Incident management (on‑call operations, RCA, post‑mortems, runbooks)
Responsibilities
- Lead end‑to-end development of enterprise applications using Java/J2EE and modern frameworks.
- Translate business requirements into technical designs, architecture diagrams, and API specifications.
- Build scalable, resilient systems using microservices, event‑driven patterns, and distributed system principles.
- Drive code quality, design reviews, automated testing, CI/CD adoption, and secure development practices.
- Ensure solutions meet Mastercard’s standards for security, performance, and compliance.
- Support production systems, lead incident resolution, and perform root‑cause analysis.
- Conduct POCs, evaluate new technologies, and contribute to platform modernization.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with cross‑functional and offshore teams to ensure consistent delivery.
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
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
