Jobs at Mastercard

Develop scalable Java and microservices-based applications, contribute to architecture and technical design, write automated tests, apply secure coding practices, optimize performance, support production systems, troubleshoot issues, participate in code reviews, research technologies, and collaborate with stakeholders in an Agile environment.

Leads engineering teams building scalable, reliable backend systems for global payment networks. Responsibilities include architecture, Java and Spring Boot development, delivery ownership, operational excellence, system reliability, observability, incident management, and cross-team coordination. The role also involves hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers while ensuring high performance, availability, security, and predictable execution across distributed systems.

Leads development of secure, scalable payment network software and highly complex integrations. Ensures application quality, performance, and adherence to development standards; performs advanced coding, code reviews, and CI/CD delivery. Coaches junior engineers, evaluates development tools and vendors, researches emerging technologies, and provides technical guidance and stakeholder communications. The role focuses on high-volume, low-latency transaction systems, event-driven architectures, microservices, cloud-native platforms, and REST APIs.

Leads large-scale technical programs across multiple Agile teams and workstreams. Serves as a Release Train Engineer, facilitates SAFe ceremonies, manages dependencies, risks, budgets, metrics, and delivery governance, and drives continuous improvement. The role mentors Scrum Masters and Agile teams, coordinates distributed stakeholders and vendors, and ensures predictable, high-quality delivery aligned with strategic priorities.

Owns customer-facing electronic payment processing implementations from planning through execution. Coordinates cross-functional Mastercard and customer teams, assesses and documents system impacts, defines project scope, drives implementation activities, and manages multiple projects concurrently. Requires payment transaction knowledge, IT systems understanding, customer communication skills, and the ability to work in a matrixed, changing technical environment on a non-negotiable night shift.

Drives governance and execution across Mastercard’s technology portfolio. The role plans and delivers complex projects, manages risks, dependencies, milestones, and roadblocks, and coordinates engineering, product, operations, and business teams. It establishes governance frameworks, improves delivery processes, maintains decision visibility, and develops dashboards, executive communications, and reporting to support leadership decision-making and accountability.

Principal Software Engineer responsible for improving real-time payments engineering through platform engineering, CI/CD, architecture, governance, developer experience, and AI enablement. The role designs secure and scalable solutions, analyzes engineering inefficiencies, drives standards adoption, communicates technical recommendations to executives, supports cross-functional initiatives, and mentors engineers. Strong experience in software architecture, cloud, CI/CD, technical leadership, AI-assisted development, secure coding, testing, and regulated industries is required.

Owns strategy, roadmap, technical requirements, prioritization, user research, and end-to-end delivery for analytical products and business intelligence platforms. Partners with engineering, design, operations, commercial, and platform teams to align development with customer and business goals. Drives feature adoption, product support, pricing input, go-to-market contributions, stakeholder alignment, and timely execution across globally relevant payment and financial services solutions.

Design, implement, automate, and maintain large-scale enterprise ETL processes for global clients. Deliver robust data solutions, validate and test data, apply engineering best practices, participate in code reviews, and collaborate across global teams. The role also requires managing multiple priorities, providing technical oversight and quality control, and supporting secure, compliant data practices.

Leads customer-facing electronic payment processing implementations from planning through execution. Coordinates and trains cross-functional technical and non-technical teams, assesses customer needs and system impacts, manages multiple projects, supports host interface testing, and ensures implementation quality and reliability. Requires payment transaction processing knowledge, IT and network understanding, strong communication, customer interaction skills, adaptability, and availability for a non-negotiable night shift.

Lead development of high-performance Java backend services for Mastercard’s fraud decision-management platform. Responsibilities include system design, production development, code and security reviews, CI/CD and cloud-native delivery, production support, SDLC documentation, vendor and offshore coordination, technical training, mentoring, and Agile SAFe participation. The role also drives engineering standards, technology evaluations, performance benchmarking, deployment planning, and secure coding practices.

Develop scalable software across full-stack, infrastructure, or front-end paths. Design service-oriented architectures, APIs, workflows, algorithms, web applications, data visualizations, and interactive user interfaces. Collaborate on small teams to solve complex problems involving large datasets while building expertise through Mastercard’s 18-month Launch program.

Leads the architecture and delivery of enterprise backend services, APIs, distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, AI-enabled workflows, and data solutions. Defines technical standards and roadmaps, drives modernization and automation, and ensures reliability, security, observability, and performance. Mentors engineers, supports hiring and development, leads incident response, and collaborates across product, architecture, security, and operations teams to advance platform strategy and engineering excellence.

Technical lead for Ethoca Smart Subscriptions building cloud-native, high-scale, API-driven microservices and full-stack features. Deliver end-to-end product development, ensure NFRs, mentor engineers, drive automation, architecture decisions, and collaborate with global stakeholders.

Develops and delivers secure, mission-critical software solutions from design through deployment. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, testing, debugging, CI/CD automation, API and service integration, architecture development, release orchestration, operational improvements, and incident mitigation. The role collaborates with product stakeholders, manages delivery risks and metrics, conducts demonstrations, drives engineering standards, and mentors less-experienced engineers.

Build and maintain large-scale data platforms, databases, ETL pipelines, and data solutions. Develop optimized SQL, Spark, Kafka, and streaming processes; support data analysts and scientists; perform large-scale extraction and analysis; improve data quality, modeling, architecture, automation, security, and deployment. Collaborate with stakeholders on requirements, investigations, root-cause analysis, and production data artifacts.

Owns product feature delivery from requirements through release, manages and prioritizes the product backlog, leads Agile ceremonies, partners with engineering, coordinates testing and releases, and tracks feature KPIs and business outcomes. Develops product strategies and roadmaps, evaluates new opportunities, manages existing product lines and partners, and defines business and technical requirements for platform enhancements.

Leads complex, cross-functional technical programs for Mastercard’s authentication solutions platform. Responsibilities include managing delivery milestones, dependencies, priorities, vendors, stakeholders, Scrum execution, SDLC artifacts, risks, and blockers. The role drives timely decisions, consensus, continuous improvement, and alignment between technical solutions, business objectives, and customer needs while representing services to internal and external partners.

Develops and maintains high-availability payment platform solutions in a globally distributed SAFe environment. Responsibilities include application development, CI/CD and release engineering, production support, reliability, automation, defect resolution, and continuous improvement. The role requires Ansible, Atlassian tools, Infrastructure as Code, Python or Groovy scripting, Linux, observability, and Agile collaboration. Kubernetes and financial services experience are desirable.

Develop and maintain Java-based payment platform solutions in a globally distributed Agile/SAFe environment. Responsibilities include backend development, Oracle database work, frontend collaboration, production support, reliability improvement, testing, automation, defect resolution, and adherence to enterprise security and engineering standards.