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Software Engineer II

British Columbia, CanadaHybridFull TimeCA$91,000–CA$140,000 /yrPosted 2 months ago

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Role summary

Mastercard's AI & Decision Engineering Platform is seeking a Software Engineer II in Vancouver to design and implement high-performance, cloud-ready solutions for fraud prevention and identity validation. This hybrid role involves hands-on coding, testing, and design, leveraging Java, Spring, SQL, and Oracle. The engineer will also mentor team members and participate in Scrum ceremonies. The platform supports streaming analytics, business rules engines, AI-driven decisioning, and in-memory data grids to deliver real-time decisions globally. The ideal candidate has strong programming skills, experience with high-performance applications, and a passion for making a difference in fraud prevention.

Our Purpose
*Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. 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.*
Title And Summary
Software Engineer II
The AI & Decision Engineering Platform powers intelligent, real-time decisioning for Mastercard’s fraud prevention and identity validation solutions. This program enables streaming analytics, governed decision-making, and outcome management with business agility at global scale.
Our platform leverages business rules engines, AI-driven decisioning, streaming big data clusters, in-memory data grids, APIs, and intuitive UIs to deliver decisions in milliseconds across billions of transactions worldwide.
As a Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing and implementing high-performance, cloud-ready solutions. You’ll mentor team members while remaining hands-on with coding, testing, and design—helping shape the next generation of Mastercard’s decisioning capabilities. This is a hybrid position based in Vancouver, requiring three days on-site per week.
Overview

  • The Decision Management program enables intelligent decision-based products through streaming analytics with the ability to govern these decisions and manage their outcomes with business agility.
  • This program leverages business rules & AI engines, a streaming big data cluster, an in memory data grids, APIs, & UIs to deliver real time decisions at global scale
  • This person will be responsible for mentoring the team as well as stay hands on.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II to join our DMP team in Vancouver office.

  • Are you a strong technical engineer with experience working on high performance applications?
  • Are you a excited 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?
  • Are you passionate about making a difference in this world?
  • Do you want to be part of a team which helps prevent fraud on every Mastercard transaction in this world?

Role

  • Implement application logic in Java.
  • Write code to do unit testing, integration testing and functional testing.
  • Reach out to senior team members in the team for any help if blocked.
  • Participate in all the Scrum ceremonies.
  • Apply best development practices to write well designed, maintainable, testable, scalable, and secure code.

Essential Knowledge/Experience

  • Strong programming skills with deep knowledge of Java.
  • Excellent knowledge of Spring and other frameworks.
  • Good knowledge of unit testing and mocking frameworks like junit, mockito or EasyMock.
  • Good knowledge of SQL and experience working with Oracle.
  • Experience working with high performance applications.
  • Good problem diagnostic and creative problem solving skills.
  • Strong organizational skills; able to manage multiple tasks within the constraints and timelines determined by business needs.

Desirable Skills

  • Experience with IBM ILOG/ODM and Pivotal Gemfire Grid.
  • Experience with Dockers, Kubernetes etc.
  • Experience with Angular.
  • BS in computer science or a related field preferred.

What we offer in return includes a beautiful view of the North Shore mountains, coffee that doesn’t stink, and colleagues that are as brilliant as they are likeable. We do cool things as a team including monthly craft beer tastings. Don’t forget the competitive salary, extended health benefits, flex-time schedules, and encouragement and support for professional development. We love it here, and we think you will too.
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 reasonable\_accommodation@mastercard.com 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.
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.

In 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
Vancouver, Canada: $91,000 - $140,000 CAD

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