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Software Engineer II

No experience
Finance
Software engineering
Posted:
December 28, 2025

Mastercard

Worldwide payments technology and solutions provider
79
Palpable Score
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Title and Summary

Software Engineer II

Overview

• Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions

• Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices

Responsibilities

• Own software delivery tasks (code development, test, deployment) at an application/software component level

• Participate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholders

• Able to troubleshoot and refactor existing code

• Adopt new languages and architecture patterns needed for the work

• Influence the decisions made by the team

• Assist peers and less experienced members

• Influence the decisions made by the team

• Demonstrate active learning and sharing of software practices via Guild/Engineering community initiatives

• Assist in technical documentation of APIs and services being delivered

Experiences

• Has ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., C, C+, C#, Java, JavaScript, COBOL, SQL)

• Familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT)

• Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices

• Apply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx ) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity

• Understands and builds test code at unit level, service level, and integration level to ensure code and functional coverage

• Understands the use of basic design patterns (e.g., factory, adaptor, singleton, composite, observer, strategy, inversion of control)

• Understands requirement analysis being essential part of delivering value to our customers and partners and participate in elaboration, prioritization, and effort estimation

• Understands different SDLC practices (Waterfall/Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) and the delivery situations they are used for

• Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)

• Familiar with different application patterns to implement different types of business processes (e.g., APIs, event-driven-services, batch-services, web-applications, big data)

• Understands Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization

• Has ability to write code (in languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, Bash, Perl, Groovy) to build automation tasks that are repeatable and efficient

• Understands functional and non-functional testing types to elaborate and estimate test efforts

About the company

Mastercard

Company overview
Mastercard operates a global payments network that routes, clears, and settles card and other payment transactions across countries and currencies. The company also sells value-added services and solutions, including security solutions, consumer acquisition and engagement services, business and market insights, digital and authentication solutions, and processing and gateway services. The company serves financial institutions, merchants, governments, fintechs, and partners with technology and data products alongside the network. Mastercard is a public company headquartered in Purchase, New York.

Locations and presence

Mastercard employed approximately 35,300 people globally as of December 31, 2024, with around 69% of employees based outside the United States across more than 90 countries. Mastercard describes a hybrid work approach for non-remote roles that averages at least three days per week in the office, alongside flexibility programs such as a four-week “work from elsewhere” policy.

Palpable Score

79
/ 100
Mastercard is a strong early-career option because Mastercard runs paid internships with a stated path into the Launch graduate program, and Mastercard also backs recent grads with an 18-month structured development journey. The main limits are predictability and consistency across teams: candidates report a wide range of interview styles depending on role, and the company’s pay transparency is strong in some markets but not universal.
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