Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

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.

Providing Innovative, Secure, and Reliable Switching Solutions is the lifeblood of Mastercard Core Products, and we are currently seeking a passionate, collaborative, and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join the Message Translation team.

If this describes you, let's talk!


About the Role:
-Participate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholders
-Estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements
-Automate build and run aspects of software
-Drive code/design/process trade-off discussions within team when required
-Report status and manage risks within primary application/service
-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 overall process and trim waste

All About You:
-Has ability to write secure code in Java and is familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management
-Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)
-Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to write interoperable and performant code
-Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors
-Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices
-Has skills in test driven and behavior driven development (TDD and BDD) to build just enough code and collaborate on the desired functionality
-Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization
-Apply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx ) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity
-Has skills to collaborate with team and business stakeholders to estimate requirements (e.g., story pointing) and prioritize based on business value
-Has skills to elaborate and estimate non-functional requirements, including security (e.g., data protection, authentication, authorization), regulatory, and performance (SLAs, throughput, transactions per second)
-Has 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).
-Has skills to understand, report, and optimize delivery metrics to continuously improve upon them (e.g., velocity, throughput, lead time, defect leakage, burndown)
-Has skills to conduct product demos and co-ordinate with product owners to drive product acceptance signoffs
-Possess knowledge of ISO 8583 and ISO 20022
-Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

Skillsets that would be a bonus:
-Knowledge and experience in Volante

Mastercard is an 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. 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.