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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.\nTitle and Summary\nSenior Software EngineerJob Description SummaryWho is Mastercard\nMastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible.\nOur 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.\nOur 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.\nOverview:\nThe Customer connect team was created to establish Mastercard as the frontrunner in the fast-evolving real-time payments space, and to position MasterCard to be able to incubate the development of new payment flows.\nThe team is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard’s next generation payment applications - Domestic, Cross Border and Bill Payments.\nMastercard seeks to define a world beyond cash. To accelerate this mission, we are committed to building & scaling products & applications that transform payments of any type. Real time payment technology is central to this strategy. We are looking for a lead software engineer to implement large scale distributed systems based on reactive architectures.\nDo you like to be part of a team that creates and executes strategic initiatives centered around digital payments?\nDo you look forward to developing and engaging with high performant diverse teams around the globe?\nWould you like to be part of a highly visible, strategically important global engineering organization?\nWhat’s it all about and what we expect you to do day to day\nOwn software delivery tasks (code development, test, deployment, release, configuration and documentation) at an application/software component level\nAble to troubleshoot and refactor existing code for exceptional code quality.\nAdopt new languages and architecture patterns needed for the work.\nParticipate and contribute to team’s agile process and decisions. Understand and contribute to Prioritization.\nPull from backlog and deliver work after seeking guidance from experienced team members and in partnership with full scrum team.\nAutomate build, operate, and run aspects of software\nDrive code/design/process trade-off discussions within their team when required\nDrive integration of services focusing on customer journey and experience\nPerform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product owners\nUnderstands operational and engineering experience, actively works to improve experience and metrics in ownership area\nDevelop complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems.\nDrive adoption of technology standards and opinionated frameworks, and review coding, test, and automation work of team members\nMentor and guide new and less-experienced team members\nIdentify opportunities to improve an overall process and trim waste\nShare and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity\nAll About You and What you need to bring:\nExcellent programming skills( OOP, SOLID, 12-factor) - java preferred\nExperience in Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization\nHave exposure to working on Apache Kafka and Stream processing platform Apache Flink\nFamiliar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management\nInfrastructure as code and cloud-first software development knowledge experience preferred.\nHas skills in test driven and behavior driven development (TDD and BDD) to build just enough code and collaborate on the desired functionality.\nUnderstands the use of basic design patterns (e.g., factory, adaptor, singleton, composite, observer, strategy, inversion of control)\n• Has ability to write code (in languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, Bash, Perl, Groovy) to build automation tasks that are repeatable and efficientMastercard 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  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.\nCorporate Security Responsibility\nAll 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:\nAbide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;\n\nEnsure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;\n\nReport any suspected information security violation or breach, and\n\nComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.\n\nIn line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in Canada, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive pay based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program.Pay Ranges\nVancouver, Canada: $111,000 - $160,000 CAD","description_format":"text","description_chars":6605,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cards & Card Issuing","Payment Processing & Gateways"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-28T00:47:20Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":16,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.456,"p_room":0.36,"age_days":49,"expected_fill_days":27,"reasons":["conf:2","evergreen","wave","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/mastercard-senior-software-engineer-83","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/mastercard-senior-software-engineer-83.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-28T09:33:18Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":12536,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-29T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":252},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=252"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmastercard-senior-software-engineer-83"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmastercard-senior-software-engineer-83"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmastercard-senior-software-engineer-83"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/mastercard-senior-software-engineer-83\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmastercard-senior-software-engineer-83"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3370577}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"mastercard.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3370577},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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