Mastercard

Financial Services

SeniorSoftwareEngineer

$115–184k O'Fallon, Missouri, United States FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer at Mastercard. Skills: Software Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Migration, Payments Processing. Design software components. Build software components”

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshoot production issues; Bottleneck analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years software engineering, 5+ years quality engineering, JAVA JDK 11-17, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Maven, Hibernate / JPA, REST, SQL Server, Event Driven Framework, Full APIs, JSON/SOAP based API, SQL, Multi-threading, Message Queuing, Distributed Systems, Nunit/Junit, Splunk alerting, Splunk monitoring, Unit testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Performance testing, Cloud native developments, Software design principles, Software architecture concepts, Data structures, Algorithms, Secure coding practices, Application security principles

Nice to Have

Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AWS, Domain knowledge in payments, Domain knowledge in transaction processing systems, Bachelor's degree in computer science, Master's degree in computer science

What You'll Do.

Design software components

Build software components

Test software components

Deploy software components

Maintain software components

Build automation frameworks

Build validation tools

Apply knowledge of data structures

Apply knowledge of algorithms

Apply knowledge of efficient coding

Build scalable solutions

Contribute to software development lifecycle

Participate in defining software architecture

Participate in defining design patterns

Ensure systems are designed for testability

Ensure systems are designed for observability

Ensure systems are designed for performance

Ensure systems are designed for operational readiness

Provide input into microservices strategies

Provide input into cloud migration strategies

Develop test automation frameworks

Implement test automation frameworks

Integrate CI/CD pipelines

Design test strategies

Ensure high code quality

Apply secure coding practices

Integrate security testing

Ensure adherence to coding standards

Ensure adherence to security practices

Ensure adherence to maintainability

Act as technical reviewer

Ensure systems are observable

Ensure systems are monitorable

Ensure systems are resilient

Perform performance engineering

Perform bottleneck analysis

Troubleshoot production issues

Ensure rapid resolution

Partner with developers

Partner with architects

Partner with product teams

Mentor junior engineers

Contribute to knowledge sharing

Evaluate technologies

Recommend technologies

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Engineering best practices

Process & Methodology

Agile, Scrum

Full Job Description

**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 ### Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. About the Role As part of the Clearing Program within Core Payments, this role is responsible for designing, building, and operating solutions that support end-to-end clearing and settlement processing for credit and debit offline transactions. The Global Clearing Management System (GCMS) processes transaction data exchanged between acquirers and issuers, applies edits, assesses fees, and derives settlement values to ensure accurate financial reconciliation. The role plays a critical part in ensuring compliance with Mastercard processing standards, maintaining data integrity, and enabling reliable, high-volume transaction processing across global payment networks. Role As a Senior Software engineer, you will be responsible for de

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