$92,000 – $147,000
Listed on Mastercard’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
This role builds and maintains backend services for Mastercard's enterprise notification platform, handling high-volume transaction events across fraud and security products. It suits mid-level engineers comfortable with Java microservices, event-driven architectures, and production support responsibilities in a large distributed-systems environment.
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What they ask for
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 2–5 years of software development experience
- Java and Spring Boot application development
- Understanding of REST APIs and microservice architectures
- Familiarity with messaging or event-driven systems
- Knowledge of software design principles, OOP, data structures, and algorithms
- Source control, code review, and CI/CD experience
- SQL and relational database knowledge
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively
Nice to have
- Event-driven architecture experience (Kafka, MQ, or similar)
- Cloud platform experience (PCF, Tanzu, Kubernetes, or containerized workloads)
- Distributed systems knowledge (resiliency, fault tolerance, scalability, performance optimization)
- Observability tools experience (Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus)
- CI/CD pipeline and automated testing framework familiarity
- PCI, security, or regulatory requirement exposure
- High-volume transaction processing systems experience