# Senior Software Engineer

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 EngineerJob OverviewYou'll join the Real Time Payments (RTP) Platform, Tooling & Engineering Enablement team as a senior technical individual contributor. We uplift engineering across RTP and act as a force multiplier for the program. We align RTP to Mastercard standards across platform, CI/CD, and governance, while improving developer experience and supporting AI enablement. You’ll apply strong engineering knowledge to technical problems, working with teams across RTP Engineering. How success is measured The team is measured on four key areas: Developer Experience - DX improves across RTP and stays above the Mastercard benchmark Innovation & Archite

- **Id**: 3972965
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mastercard-senior-software-engineer-97>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T16:54:12Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T16:54:12Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3906
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cards & Card Issuing, Payment Processing & Gateways

## Company

- **Id**: 252
- **Name**: Mastercard
- **Domain**: mastercard.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mastercard>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 176
- **Ghost share**: 0.023
- **Stale share**: 0.483
- **Repost share**: 0.074
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T16:54:12Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T19:25:31Z

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