Senior Software Engineer

Mastercard; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 95,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the RTP Team within Mastercard Payment Services (MPS) in Norway. You will design, develop, and maintain Java-based backend solutions supporting our payment clearing and settlement services.

The role emphasizes quality, performance, and scalability, with collaboration across product, architecture, and infrastructure teams. We welcome developers with varying experience levels who want to influence the direction of our solutions and explore

Qualifications

• Experience with Java backend development.
• Experience with Spring, REST APIs and Hibernate.
• Familiarity with agile development processes (Scrum/Kanban).
• Experience with modern development tools (Bitbucket, Git, CI/CD, Maven, IntelliJ).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Java-based backend solutions.
• Advance payment clearing and settlement services with emphasis on quality, performance and scalability.
• Solve technical challenges using existing skills or new approaches.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, and infrastructure teams; contribute to continuous improvement.
• Explore and adopt modern development tools, including AI-backed tooling to boost productivity.

Skills

Java

Spring

REST APIs

Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

CI/CD

Git

Tools

Bitbucket

Git

CI/CD

Maven

IntelliJ

Job description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build asustainableeconomy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactionssecure, 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 Engineer

Do you want to be part of building the payment services of the future in Norway?

The RTP Team in Mastercard Payment Services (MPS) is looking for a Java developer to participate in the NICS Core team working with development and maintenance of our Norwegian Batch Clearing Service, NICS Core. We are now looking for a new colleague to join our development team and are open to candidates with both a few years of experience and more experienced developers who want to influence the direction of our solutions.

As NICS Core is classified as Critical National Infrastructure under the Norwegian Security Act, candidates for this position must be able to achieve Extended Access Clearing as defined by Nasjonal Sikkerhetsmyndghet, NSM.

About the role

You will be part of an interdisciplinary product team that works closely with product owners and business to develop and maintain robust, scalable and secure solutions.

We are looking for developers of different experience levels – from you with a few years of experience to more experienced developers who want to take a central role in the development of our services.

Our teams work agile (Scrum/ Kanban) and have a high degree of ownership of both solutions and deliveries.

In this position, you will:

• Design, develop, and maintain Java-based backend solutions
• Further develop our payment clearing and settlement services with a focus on quality, performance and scalability
• Help solve technical challenges – either by building experience or using your existing skills
• Collaborate closely with products, architecture, infrastructure and other teams
• Contribute to continuous improvement of our solutions, processes and technical platform
• Explore and adopt modern development tools, including AI-backed tools for increased productivity and quality
• Help identify how AI and automation can improve our services and the way we work

What we're looking for

Professional competence

• Have experience with Java development and want to further develop yourself professionally
• Have experience with backend development (Spring, REST APIs, preferably Hibernate)
• Has worked with agile development processes (Scrum/Kanban)
• Have experience with modern development tools (Bitbucket, Git, CI/CD, Maven, IntelliJ or equivalent)
• Has an interest in working with integrations and preferably complex system landscapes

AI / Modern Development

• Have an interest in – and preferably some experience with – the use of AI in development work (e.g. code assistants, prompt engineering, automation or similar)
• Are curious about how AI can be used to improve development processes and products

Personal qualities

• You are independent and take ownership of what you build
• You are able to understand and work with critical, complex systems
• You solution-oriented and see opportunities for improvement
• You communicate well, both technically and towards business
• You are curious and motivated by learning new technology

Why choose us?

• Opportunity to work with socially critical payment solutions used by most Norwegian citizens and businesses
• A strong professional environment with experienced developers and a high degree of autonomy
• Real impact on how we develop the solutions of the future
• Opportunity to explore and shape the use of AI in our everyday development
• Competitive terms, pension and insurance schemes
• A good working environment and flexibility in everyday life

Corporate Security Responsibility

All 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:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.