Lead / 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

Lead / Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to be part of The Mastercard Foundry R&D team. You will be part of the team that drives Mastercard’s innovation journey by consistently looking to discover and learn new skills and technologies and apply them to create highly scalable products. The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, willing to experiment, agile, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.
What you’ll do
Contribute to developing and delivering high quality & scalable software solutions in an agile team.
Collaborate with a global team of product owners, researchers and engineers in a high-ownership, fast-moving agile setup.
Build innovative solution prototypes, pilots, and MVPs that explore the edge of what’s possible in payment and commerce.
Explore emerging technologies and assess its potential impact on payments and commerce.
What you’ll bring
Experiences across the stack — from backend (e.g., Java Spring Boot, microservices) to frontend (React/Angular), mobile (iOS/Android), and databases (SQL, NoSQL). Full-stack experience is a huge plus.
Experiences in developing & running AI / ML & Generative AI solution using various cloud-based AI platform, such as Databricks, Azure AI Foundry, or AWS AI Stack, is preferrable.
Solid understanding of agile development methodology, clean coding practices, testing driven development and continuous integration & deployment.
A passion for innovation, emerging technology, and building products that matter.
A growth mindset with a “can-do” attitude and willingness to go above and beyond.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills and the ability to work within a team and team of teams across various geographical locations.
Experiences working on scalable product development with understanding of the software development best practices.
Required skills:
5+ years of experience working in agile team.
3+ years of Java Spring Boot development experience with microservices and database, SQL or NoSQL.
5+ years of experience designing scalable software solutions across the stack.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Preferred skills:
Full-stack development experiences.
Designing, developing, deploying, and running AI/ML and Generative AI solutions using various cloud-based AI platforms, such as Databricks, Azure AI Foundry, or AWS AI Stack
2+ years of experience developing front end applications (React/Angular)
2+ years of experience developing mobile applications (native iOS/Android)

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.