Senior Software Engineer

Mastercard · O'Fallon, Missouri

onsitefull-time6-10 years

posted 22h

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 Join a team focused on transforming how Mastercard's payment systems are built, scaled, and operated. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of cloud-ready applications, microservices, and distributed systems that support large-scale payment processing platforms while helping advance modernization, automation, and engineering excellence across the organization. In this role, you will contribute to software architecture decisions, drive technical design discussions, and partner with engineers to deliver scalable, resilient, and maintainable software solutions. You'll have the opportunity to solve complex technical challenges, mentor other engineers, and influence how software is designed, developed, tested, and supported across critical technology platforms. What You Will Do •Design software solutions and contribute to software architecture decisions that support scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence. •Translate complex product requirements into technical designs and implementation plans. •Lead development of modular, extensible, high-performance applications. •Design and implement comprehensive unit, functional, and integration testing strategies. •Analyze, optimize, and improve application performance, scalability, and reliability. •Apply secure coding practices and promote application security best practices. •Lead and participate in code reviews, ensuring adherence to engineering standards. •Design systems with observability, operability, and supportability as core principles. •Research emerging frameworks and technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate. •Mentor junior developers and support onboarding activities. •Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues using root cause analysis techniques. •Support engineering excellence through continuous improvement, refactoring, and adherence to SOLID principles. All About You •Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, REST APIs, JPA, and distributed systems. •Strong understanding of software design and software architecture principles. •Experience building highly scalable and resilient systems. •Experience implementing automated testing strategies and quality engineering practices. •Strong knowledge of performance engineering and production optimization. •Strong understanding of secure software development principles. •Experience leading code reviews and mentoring engineers. •Strong troubleshooting and analytical problem-solving skills. •Experience with microservices, cloud-native applications, and CI/CD. •Experience building AI-assisted applications, autonomous agents, or agentic workflows. •Agile Scrum experience. 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