Senior Software Engineer

Mastercard

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Work type: On-site
Location: O'Fallon, MO
Salary: $115,000–$184,000 / yr
Posted: 40 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About Mastercard

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, processing transactions between financial institutions and merchants using its extensive network of credit, debit, and prepaid card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services

Mastercard currently has 162 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer

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JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer As a Senior Software Engineer within the Mastercard Send team, you will function as a Java Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate highly resilient, cloud-native payment platforms. You will develop microservices and secure APIs to power near real-time money movement for disbursements and person-to-person transfers. Your daily work involves implementing SRE practices like SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets while automating deployments and monitoring. You will utilize Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Apache Kafka within a distributed architecture. Technical requirements include experience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and Redis. You will also use OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, and Splunk to ensure production reliability. This role solves the technical challenge of maintaining high-volume, real-time transaction processing for global financial services.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Missouri?

Median $149500 from 62 postings across 5 companies.

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Skills

Java Spring Boot Spring Framework Spring Cloud Spring Batch Microservices Kubernetes AWS Azure PCF Docker Apache Kafka PostgreSQL Oracle Redis MongoDB OpenTelemetry Dynatrace Prometheus Grafana Jenkins GitHub Maven CI/CD JUnit Mockito Karate REST APIs OAuth2 AES/RSA TLS/PKI Splunk

What you'll do

Design, develop, and deploy cloud-native Java applications and microservices for payment solutions.
Build scalable, resilient systems using distributed architecture and cloud-native design patterns.
Develop and maintain secure, high-performing APIs and backend services.
Drive production reliability through observability, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.
Implement SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, and production readiness reviews.
Automate deployments, testing, monitoring, and operational processes to reduce manual effort.
Optimize application performance to support high-volume, real-time transaction processing workloads.
Mentor engineers and promote software engineering and operational excellence best practices.

What we're looking for

Deep hands-on experience building Java-based distributed systems with knowledge of performance, scalability, and resiliency principles.
Experience developing enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and cloud-native technologies.
Experience translating business requirements into technical designs, architecture decisions, and API specifications.
Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and modern software delivery practices.
Experience applying data structures, software design principles, secure coding, and automated testing to build maintainable solutions.
Experience with production support, on-call operations, incident management, root cause analysis, and service ownership.
Experience implementing observability and monitoring solutions using tools such as OpenTelemetry and Dynatrace.
Experience with encryption, secrets management, API security, and enterprise data protection standards.
Experience supporting containerized workloads on Kubernetes, PCF, AWS, or Azure.
Experience working in payment processing, financial services, or other high-volume transaction environments (preferred).

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