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

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.
Overview
Mastercard Security Solutions develops and delivers world-class risk, security products, and services for Mastercard customers across the globe. As part of this organization, the Strategic Data Acquisitions team is responsible for:
Providing Risk analytics data and insights to Mastercard and its worldwide customers.
Maintenance of existing and development of new risk solutions and monitoring data driven products/services.
The RiskRecon team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead and help a team in designing, developing, and delivering risk assessment software solutions with a high level of innovation as well as integrations in support of Mastercard and its customers. The challenge is to create a high-performing platform, compelling visualizations, and intuitive workflows that allow users to derive insights and in turn protect their assets.
Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Improve existing, and build new full-stack solutions
• Be accountable for full systems development life cycle including creating high quality requirements documents, use-cases, design and other technical artifacts including but not limited to detailed test strategy/test design, performance benchmarking, release rollout and deployment plans, contingency/back-out plans, feasibility study, cost and time analysis and detailed estimates
• Perform system maintenance and troubleshoot production incidents
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance engineers on testing processes – ensuring adequate test coverage in unit testing, system testing/integration, and performance testing
All About You
• Solid experience with Python is required
• Ability to adapt to and learn new programming languages quickly
• Prior experience with Elixir, React/JavaScript, HTML, and CSS is a plus
• Experience with AWS and Terraform is a plus
• Experience with Docker containers
• Experience with wide range of data store technologies – Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Kafka etc.
• Strong understanding of Software Engineering Concepts and agile methodology is required
• Prior experience contributing to the development of large-scale web applications
• High degree of flexibility and ability to strive in an entrepreneurial environment
• Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written
• Willingness and ability to quickly learn and take on new challenging opportunities
• Prior experience in delivering secure solutions
• Demonstrate Mastercard Core Competencies – trust, partnership, initiative, and agility
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
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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 [email protected] 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.