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

Job Overview:
Responsible for the analysis, design, development, testing, and delivery of secure, scalable software solutions. Define requirements for new applications and customization adhering to Mastercard standards, processes, and best practices. Develop, customize, and test applications to integrate to Mastercard specifications. Provide leadership, mentoring, and technical training to other team members.

Major Accountabilities
• Plan, design, architect, and develop secure, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions and alternatives to meet business requirements in adherence with Mastercard standards, processes, and best practices
• Lead day-to-day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and create solutions with a high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, quality, reliability, and faster time to market.
• Accountable for the full systems development life cycle including creating high-quality requirements documents, use cases, designs, and other technical artifacts including but not limited to detailed test strategies, performance benchmarking, release rollout and deployment plans, contingency/back-out plans, feasibility studies, cost and time analysis, and detailed estimates.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software applications while applying software engineering best practices, secure coding standards, and effective use of data structures
• Perform system maintenance, production incident management, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, remediation, and on-call support while ensuring operational reliability and observability
• Select appropriate technical frameworks and solution delivery methodologies. Adapt technical artifact templates based on project and technology needs. Contribute ideas to help ensure required standards and processes are in place. Maintain solution and technology roadmaps
• Research and evaluate current and upcoming technologies and frameworks.
• Participate in PoCs (Proof of Concept) and help the department with selection of vendor solutions, technologies, methodologies, and frameworks.
• Collaborate with vendor resources for product support
• Conduct brownbag sessions on new and upcoming technologies, methodologies, and application-appropriate frameworks. Ensure knowledge transfer of vendor technology to Mastercard staff and provide technical training to team members
• Follow and promote Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes in the department. Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency. Mentor and guide team members during all phases of the SDLC
• Ensure adequate test coverage through unit, functional, integration, and performance testing. Perform quality inspections and walkthroughs throughout the SDLC including requirements reviews, design reviews, code reviews, and security reviews to ensure compliance with Mastercard standards.
• Coordinate offshore development and manage day-to-day activities.

All About You
• Strong understanding of software design, architecture, data structures, secure development practices, testing, and performance optimization.
• Strong programming and automation skills using Java, Groovy, or similar languages
• Experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining software applications using engineering best practices.
• Strong understanding of service-oriented, microservices, and API-driven architectures
•Experience building and supporting scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed systems
•Experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, automated, and high-quality software delivery.
•Hands-on experience with DevOps tools such as Git/Bitbucket, Jenkins, XLR, Chef, Artifactory, Docker Registry, and similar platforms
•Experience automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, deployments, and operational workflows
•Knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, production support, and security best practices including authentication, authorization, secure API design, and data protection
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a globally distributed enginee