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 Engineer I
Who is Mastercard?
We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results.
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Overview:
The Mastercard® Cross Border platform and services enable secure, near real-time payment transfers to and from billions of card, bank and digital accounts globally. Program Participants (banks, businesses, digital players and more) can modernize the way they send money cross-border, making funds available to recipients almost instantly. Mastercard Cross Border is proven to increase user spend and engagement, strengthening core business performance.
Do you like to be part of a team that is creating and executing strategic initiatives centered around digital payments?
Do you look forward to developing and engaging with high performant diverse teams around the globe?
Would you like to be part of a highly visible, strategically important global engineering organization?
About the role
Software Engineers at Mastercard design and code a variety of applications covering transaction processing, analytics, user interfaces, and APIs using a blend of cutting-edge technologies across big data, distributed systems, machine learning, and more. As a Software Engineer, you will deliver these products and solutions with speed and agility as part of a small team. This will involve developing high-performing, highly scalable software solutions and products for some of the world's top brands. Specific tasks vary depending on the project and the business unit that you join in.
All staff at Mastercard are expected to demonstrate 'Mastercard Way' cultural values every day - own it, simplify it, sense of urgency, thoughtful risk-taking, unlock potential, and be inclusive - with a relentless focus on our customers.
Job Overview: Support software engineering through programming, testing, implementation, documenting and delivery of software solutions. Researches alternative technical solutions for changing business needs. Major Accountabilities: • Responsible for programming, testing, implementation, documentation, maintenance and support of systems application software in adherence with MasterCard standards, processes and best practices. • Develop high quality, secure, scalable software solutions based on technical requirements specifications and design artifacts within expected time and budget. • Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives for the business needs. • Create systems and testing documentation per department standards. • Follow standards in development and testing to ensure compliance with Audit Requirements. • Follow MasterCard Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes. • Support collection and reporting of project and software metrics. • Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency. Education: • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or Management Information Systems or equivalent work experience. Knowledge / Experience: • Basic understanding and knowledge of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies is required. • 0 to 12 months of experience in the software engineering field. Skills/ Abilities: • Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive, and able to function under pressure to meet tight deadlines. • Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written - and able to quickly learn and implement new technologies, application appropriate frameworks and tools. • Strong relationship, collaborative skills and organizational skills with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation and Able to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team. • Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities.
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.