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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\nSoftware Engineer II (Backend - Java)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.\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 Decision Management program enables intelligent, decision-based products through streaming analytics, providing the ability to govern decisions and manage their outcomes with business agility.\nThe platform leverages business rules and AI engines, streaming big-data technologies, in-memory data grids, APIs, and user interfaces to deliver real-time decisions at global scale.\nWe are looking for a Software Engineer II to join our DMP team in our Vancouver office.\nThe successful candidate will contribute hands-on to software design, development, testing, and delivery while collaborating with experienced engineers and supporting the growth of junior team members.\nAre you:\nA strong software engineer with experience building high-performance applications?\nExcited about getting a 360-degree view of the coding world - writing code to develop a piece of code as well as write code to test it?\nPassionate about solving complex technical problems and delivering meaningful customer outcomes?\nInterested in building technology that helps prevent fraud across Mastercard transactions globally?\nRole\nDesign, develop, and maintain application functionality primarily using Java.\nDevelop comprehensive unit, integration, and functional tests.\nApply software engineering best practices to produce well-designed, maintainable, scalable, secure, and testable code.\nTake ownership of assigned features and backlog items from development through testing and delivery.\nDiagnose technical issues and develop creative solutions to complex problems.\nCollaborate with senior engineers and other team members to resolve technical challenges and delivery blockers.\nParticipate actively in Scrum ceremonies, including refinement, planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.\nProvide technical guidance, knowledge sharing, and mentoring to junior engineers.\nCollaborate with stakeholders to communicate development progress, technical considerations, risks, and next steps.\nContribute consistently toward sprint and iteration commitments and overall team objectives.\nLeverage approved AI-assisted development tools, such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, to accelerate development, improve engineering productivity, and enhance code quality.\nAbout You\nEssential Knowledge / Experience\nStrong software development and programming skills with solid knowledge of Java.\nStrong knowledge of Spring and related Java frameworks.\nGood understanding of object-oriented design, software design principles, and development best practices.\nExperience with unit-testing and mocking frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, or EasyMock.\nGood SQL knowledge and experience working with Oracle databases.\nExperience developing and supporting high-performance applications.\nStrong diagnostic, troubleshooting, and creative problem-solving skills.\nStrong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities within business-driven timelines.\nExperience working in Agile/Scrum development environments and delivering against sprint and backlog commitments.\nAbility to collaborate effectively with engineering teams and technical/business stakeholders.\nDesirable Skills\nKnowledge of agentic AI concepts and/or experience building custom AI agents, tools, or skills.\nExperience with testing frameworks such as REST Assured and Selenium WebDriver.\nExperience with IBM ILOG/ODM and Pivotal GemFire.\nExperience with Docker and Kubernetes.\nExperience with Angular.\nExperience with distributed, highly available, or real-time processing systems.\n• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field preferred.Mastercard 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: $91,000 - $140,000 CAD","description_format":"text","description_chars":6537,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cards & Card Issuing","Payment Processing & Gateways"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-23T01:29:06Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":26,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-24T06:02:35Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/mastercard-software-engineer-ii-backend-java-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/mastercard-software-engineer-ii-backend-java-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-25T03:26:32Z","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":4755,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-26T00:00:00Z"}},"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-software-engineer-ii-backend-java-2"},{"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-software-engineer-ii-backend-java-2"},{"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-software-engineer-ii-backend-java-2"},{"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-software-engineer-ii-backend-java-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmastercard-software-engineer-ii-backend-java-2"}]}