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

Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Who is Mastercard?
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
The Payment Enablement program is searching for a passionate Senior Software Engineer to develop solutions for Mastercard customers to utilize core payment technologies.

Overview
•\tResponsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions
•\tDefines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
•\tCoaches and mentors junior engineers

Responsibilities
•\tParticipate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholders
•\tEstimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements
•\tAutomate build, operate, and run aspects of software
•\tDrive code/design/process trade-off discussions within their team when required
•\tReport status and manage risks within their primary application/service
•\tDrive integration of services focusing on customer journey and experience
•\tPerform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product owners
•\tUnderstands operational and engineering experience, actively works to improve experience and metrics in ownership area
•\tDevelop complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems
•\tDrive adoption of technology standards and opinionated frameworks, and review coding, test, and automation work of team members
•\tMentor and guide new and less-experienced team members
•\tIdentify opportunities to improve an overall process and trim waste
•\tShare and seek knowledge within Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity
About You:
•\tAdvanced skills in writing secure code in Java using Spring framework
•\tExperienced in messaging technologies such as NATs or Kafka
•\tFamiliar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management
•\tAble to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors
•\tExperienced in utilizing caching solutions such as Hazelcast, Apache Ignite, Redis, Caffeine, etc.
•\tUnderstands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices
•\tHas skills in test driven and behavior driven development (TDD and BDD) to build just enough code and collaborate on the desired functionality
•\tUnderstands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading, all from the gang of four) to implement efficient code
•\tUnderstands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization
•\tHas skills to author test code with lots of smaller tests followed by few contract tests at service level and fewer journey tests at the integration level (Test Pyramid concept)
•\tApply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx ) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity
•\tHas skills to collaborate with team and business stakeholders to estimate requirements (e.g., story pointing) and prioritize based on business value
•\tHas skills to elaborate and estimate non-functional requirements, including security (e.g., data protection, authentication, authorization), regulatory, and performance (SLAs, throughput, transactions per second)
•\tHas skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines, and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD using industry standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, AWS/Azure pipelines, XL Release, others).
•\tHas skills to understand, report, and optimize delivery metrics to continuously improve upon them (e.g., velocity, throughput, lead time, defect leakage, burndown)
•\tHas skills to document and drive definition-of-done for requirements to meet both business and operational needs
•\tUnderstands how to build robust tests to minimize defect leakage by performing regression, performance, deployment verification, and release testing
•\tHas skills to conduct product demos and co-ordinate with product owners to drive product acceptance signoffs

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 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, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $115,000 - $184,000 USD