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 I

Who is Mastercard?

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.


Technology at Mastercard

What we create today will define tomorrow. Revolutionary technologies that reshape the digital economy to be more connected and inclusive than ever before. Safer, faster, more sustainable.

And we need the best people to do it. Technologists who are energized by the challenges of a truly global network. With the talent and vision to create the critical systems and products that power global commerce and connect people everywhere to the vital goods and services they need every day.

Working at Mastercard means being part of a unique culture. Inclusive and diverse, a rich collaboration of ideas and perspectives. A place that celebrates your strengths, values your experiences, and offers you the flexibility to shape a career across disciplines and continents. And the opportunity to work alongside experts and leaders at every level of the business, improving what exists, and inventing what’s next.

About the role

Software Engineers at Mastercard design and code a variety of applications covering transaction processing, analytics, user interfaces, and APIs using a blend of cutting-edge technologies across big data, distributed systems, machine learning, and more. As a Software Engineer, you will deliver these products and solutions with speed and agility as part of a small team. This will involve developing high-performing, highly scalable software solutions and products for some of the world’s top brands. Specific tasks vary depending on the project and the business unit that you join in.

All staff at Mastercard are expected to demonstrate 'Mastercard Way' cultural values every day - own it, simplify it, sense of urgency, thoughtful risk-taking, unlock potential, and be inclusive – with a relentless focus on our customers. As a Software Engineer I at Mastercard, you are expected to perform the following general responsibilities:

· Deliver assigned work seeking guidance from experienced team members

· Proactively seek reviews of their work from experienced team members

· Seeks understanding of how their tasks fits into the bigger picture and end-to-end logical architecture owned by their team

· Ask questions, providing feedback and suggestions on areas to improve

· Learn and understand the use of Mastercard technology policies in everyday work



All about you

It is expected a candidate should have experience across multiple areas listed below.

· Has experience with programming in at least one language such as C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, etc. Familiarity using persistent data stores such as relational databases, NoSQL, etc. Uses defensive coding, logging, and alerts to help prevent issues.

· Has experience with programming in at least one language such as C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, etc. Familiarity using persistent data stores such as relational databases, NoSQL, etc. Uses defensive coding, logging, and alerts to help prevent issues.

· Shows ability to prioritize personal tasks and workstreams. Engaged in planning and scoping assigned features. Partners with others to ensure the right tradeoffs in decisions.

· Able to share technical ideas in both written and spoken forums. A proactive communicator that keeps their team members informed of project status and blockers.

· Writes automated tests to verify code correctness and expected behavior.

· Shows persistence on intermittent or hard to reproduce issues. Familiar with common debugging tools and information to diagnose issues such as stack traces, memory profiling, code tracing, etc., using all debugging techniques/ tools and logs.

· Participates in teammates' code and design reviews. Uses these as opportunities to further understanding of team's applications and features.

· Exposure to source control management (e.g., git), deployment, and task management tools.

· A self-starter with the ability to solve problems independently. Approaches discussions & problems collaboratively and with a sense of curiosity. Works with team members in other roles and geographies as needed

· Seeks understanding of the business need behind their development tasks.