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Software Engineer II

Mastercard
New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Sept 2025
💰 $110,000/yr

About the role

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

Software Engineer II

1- Overview
Support software engineering through programming, testing, implementation, documenting and delivery of software solutions. Researches alternative technical solutions for changing business needs.

2- Role
Own software delivery tasks (code development, test, deployment) at an application/software component level

Participate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholders

Able to troubleshoot and refactor existing code

Adopt new languages and architecture patterns needed for the work

Influence the decisions made by the team

Assist peers and less experienced members

Influence the decisions made by the team

Demonstrate active learning and sharing of software practices via Guild/Engineering community initiatives

Assist in technical documentation of APIs and services being delivered

3- All About You

Has ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., C, C+, C#, Java, JavaScript, COBOL, SQL)

Familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT)

Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices

Apply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx ) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity

Understands and builds test code at unit level, service level, and integration level to ensure code and functional coverage

Understands the use of basic design patterns (e.g., factory, adaptor, singleton, composite, observer, strategy, inversion of control)

Understands requirement analysis being essential part of delivering value to our customers and partners and participate in elaboration, prioritization, and effort estimation

Understands different SDLC practices (Waterfall/Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) and the delivery situations they are used for

Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)

Familiar with different application patterns to implement different types of business processes (e.g., APIs, event-driven-services, batch-services, web-applications, big data)

Understands Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization

Has ability to write code (in languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, Bash, Perl, Groovy) to build automation tasks that are repeatable and efficient

Understands functional and non-functional testing types to elaborate and estimate test efforts

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

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