Senior Software Engineer
Mastercard1 day ago
Base Salary
$115k - $184k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, support, and operate scalable cloud-native applications and services.
- Build backend solutions with Java and Spring Boot and frontend applications with React and TypeScript.
- Design REST APIs and integrations with Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket, SonarQube, Workday, Backstage, and related developer platforms.
- Improve developer productivity through automation, self-service capabilities, platform standardization, and plugin-based architectures.
- Define testing strategies covering unit, integration, and functional/end-to-end testing and integrate automated testing into delivery pipelines.
- Lead benchmarking, load testing, capacity planning, system optimization, and performance engineering initiatives.
- Apply secure coding, security, regulatory, and compliance requirements throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, incident resolution, and postmortem activities for complex distributed systems.
- Conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and provide technical leadership across frontend, backend, API, integration, and cloud-native initiatives.
- Partner with stakeholders on technical roadmaps and contribute reusable frameworks, patterns, and innovations to the Software Engineering Guild.
Requirements
- Experience designing and developing scalable software systems using object-oriented design, modern architecture patterns, and cloud-native practices.
- Experience with software development, system design, and ownership of large-scale distributed systems.
- Proficiency in software design and architecture, testing strategies, and operability engineering including observability, monitoring, and reliability.
- Advanced hands-on experience in performance engineering, secure coding, code reviews, data structures and algorithms, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
- Advanced proficiency in modern programming languages such as Java or C# and frontend development using React and/or TypeScript.
- Experience designing extensible architectures and integrating developer tools through APIs, plugins, and event-driven patterns.
- Experience with plugin-based architectures, DevOps tool integrations, and data-driven user interfaces.
- Hands-on experience developing and deploying cloud-native software using AWS, Kubernetes, and containerized architectures.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation and with CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Splunk or equivalent.
- Excellent communication and technical leadership skills.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time employees generally receive medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance; flexible spending and health savings accounts; paid leave; 401(k) matching; fitness reimbursement or facilities; tuition reimbursement; and other benefits.
- Benefits include 16 weeks of new parent leave, up to 20 days of bereavement leave, 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 vacation days, five personal days, and 10 paid U.S. holidays, pro-rated based on hire date.
- The listed base salary range for O'Fallon, Missouri is $115,000–$184,000 USD.
- The posting states that the role is subject to Mastercard’s standard full-time employee benefits and may include annual bonus eligibility.
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About Mastercard
Mastercard builds and operates a global payments network used by banks, merchants, fintechs, and governments, offering card processing, real-time payments, tokenization, and fraud/risk services. It generates revenue from transaction processing and assessment/service fees across more than 200 countries and territories. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Purchase, New York, Mastercard is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: MA).