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
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.
About the Role
The Mastercard Authentication Program owns how consumer authentication works for both in-store and e-commerce transactional use cases. The primary purpose of this role is to develop and deliver best-of-breed authentication products for e-commerce transactional use cases that will drive uptake and penetration for the products and revenue for Mastercard. The authentication products that fall within this role’s responsibilities are ID Check, Token Authentication Service and Token Authentication Framework.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
Automation: Use automation tools to make software development more efficient, reliable, and consistent.
Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD): Write scripts to automatically set up the deployment environment and integrate new code frequently.
Release Management: Plan, schedule, and execute software releases for customer access services, ensuring smooth and timely deployments across multiple environments (AWS, Azure, VMs, PCF).
Performance Testing: Conduct performance testing to identify bottlenecks, ensure optimal performance, and proactively address any scalability issues in the platform.
Monitoring: Set up monitoring tools to track the performance of software systems and configure alerts to address critical events.
Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Develop and optimize automated deployment pipelines to improve the speed and reliability of deployments.
Platform Upgrades: Manage and execute platform upgrades, ensuring minimal downtime and seamless transition across all environments.
Cross-Environment Deployment: Oversee deployment across various environments, including cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure), on-premise VMs, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, ensuring consistent configurations and smooth operations.
Automation & Process Improvement: Lead efforts to automate deployment processes and continuously enhance the efficiency of our release engineering practices. Foster the evolution of release processes to keep pace with changing technologies and business needs.
Collaboration & Support: Work closely with Development, and Operations teams to support and troubleshoot issues related to deployment, performance, and platform scalability.
Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of release processes, deployment pipelines, and troubleshooting procedures to ensure transparency and knowledge sharing.
Technical support: Investigate and resolve technical issues, perform root cause analysis, and provide technical support.
Process improvement: Work towards continuous improvement by building pipelines and creating or updating new processes.
All About You:
•Proven professional experience in a release engineering, DevOps, or similar role
•Extensive experience in release engineering, with a focus on Java-based platforms
•Proven experience in deploying applications in cloud environments (AWS, Azure) and on-premise VMs, with experience in PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry) a plus.
•Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow), peer reviews and CI/CD practices (e.g. Jenkins, Chef Habitat)
•Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies is a plus
•Strong knowledge of performance testing, monitoring, and scaling of Java applications using tools such as Blazemeter or LoadRunner or JMeter, Dynatrace, and Splunk
•Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors
•Experience in process automation and scripting (e.g., Shell, Python, Groovy or similar languages)
•Strong proficiency in programming language (e.g. Java) and frameworks (e.g. Spring boot)
•Familiarity with security practices and deployment of security services platforms
•Excellent communication and collaboration skills
•Ability to work independently and as part of a team
•Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handle multiple priorities, and manage time effectively
•Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
Our teams and values:
•We work within small collaborative teams consisting of software engineers and product managers
•Our customer’s success is at the core of what we do
•We are diverse and inclusive teams from many backgrounds and with many experiences
•We believe in doing well by doing good through inclusive growth and making ethical and environmentally responsible decisions

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 [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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $115,000 - $184,000 USD