Software Engineer
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Software Engineer needed to design, develop, and maintain high-availability payment platforms in a SAFe Agile environment.
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 EngineerOverviewThis role operates within a globally distributed delivery model, partnering closely with
established onshore teams to deliver and maintain high-availability, mission-critical
systems.
The successful candidate will contribute to the ongoing evolution and stability of key
payment platforms within a scaled Agile (SAFe) environment.
Role
The Software Engineer will be responsible for:
• Agile Delivery (SAFe Framework): Working within an established Scrum team aligned
to SAFe, contributing to sprint planning, execution, and continuous improvement
initiatives.
• Distributed Team Collaboration: Collaborating closely with onshore engineering teams
to deliver features, resolve defects, and ensure seamless integration across the delivery
lifecycle.
• Application Development & Maintenance: Designing, developing, and maintaining
solutions across a multi-technology stack.
• Production Support & Reliability: Supporting critical live systems, ensuring
performance, resilience, and adherence to enterprise standards and controls.
• Continuous Improvement: Contributing to engineering best practices, automation,
and process enhancements to improve delivery efficiency and quality.
All About You
We are looking for a technically strong and collaborative Software Engineer who thrives
in a complex, enterprise-scale environment.
Key requirements include:
• Experience with Java-based development
• Exposure to Spring-Boot framework
• Experience of TDD and BDD testing frameworks (JUnit, Selenium, Cucumber, etc.)
• Experience of frontend technologies such as Angular and JavaScript
• Familiarity with SQL scripting and data handling
• Familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies, ideally within SAFe
• Strong problem-solving skills and ownership mindset
• Ability to collaborate effectively across distributed teams
• Experience with relational databases (Oracle)
Desirable experience:
• Exposure to Devops tooling
• Experience of REST, Messaging and Event Driven frameworks/solutions
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.
How we rate this
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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
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