Senior Software Engineer

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

overview

The Open Finance Analytics team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to drive our products forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about software optimization, intellectually curious, and a team player. The ideal candidate can take on projects with ambiguous details, communicate with stakeholders and other teams to arrive at a solution that is easily maintained, flexible to changing market needs, and scalable.

Role

In this position, you will:

• Develop high quality, secure, scalable software solutions based on technical requirements
• Partner with Data Science and Product teams to identify business opportunities, solve problems, and deliver solutions.
• Program, test, document, and maintain applications in adherence with MasterCard standards, processes, and best practices.
• Contribute ideas and actively look for opportunities to enhance the team standards and improve efficiency.

All About You

The ideal candidate for this position:

• Has a bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or equivalent work experience
• Has a solid understanding of software engineering concepts, methodologies, and best practices.
• Can evaluate and compare multiple technical solutions to determine the best approach for a given problem.
• Has experience across a broad range of architectures and technologies, with the ability to clearly explain and defend technical decisions.
• Is experienced in designing intuitive, flexible REST services.
• Has experience with SQL, Docker, RabbitMQ, Redis, Python, and/or Golang—or demonstrates a strong willingness to learn Golang.
• Understands common software development tools and processes, including Git, unit and integration testing, code reviews, documentation, Jira, SCRUM ceremonies, Flyway, and VS Code.

Other desired qualities include:

• Communicates technical concepts clearly and succinctly.
• Works effectively as part of a geographically distributed team, including occasional meetings outside standard business hours.
• Has experience with React.js, Linux, hosting machine‑learning models, gRPC, MLflow, or Databricks.

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.