Mastercard
Fintech · Card network
- HQ
- Purchase, US
- Founded
- 1979
- Size
- 35,000+
- Website
- mastercard.com
Currently tracking 3 active AI roles, down 63% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $156k–$265k (avg $211k).
Mastercard currently has 16 active job listings related to artificial intelligence. The majority of these roles, 50%, are focused on serving infrastructure. Engineering is the primary function for these AI positions, with the United States being the top hiring country. Frequent technical tags include model serving, agent orchestration, and inference infrastructure, suggesting a focus on deploying and managing AI models. In the last 30 days, Mastercard has posted 23 new AI roles, representing a 667% increase from the previous 30-day period.
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Mastercard currently has 11 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Senior Software Engineer (3), Foundry R&D Software Engineer II, Lead Software Engineer, Lead Technical Program Manager, Manager, Software Engineering. Most positions are in Engineering.
Mastercard's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (45%), serving infrastructure (36%), application (18%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Mastercard is hiring AI talent in: United States (7 roles), Ireland (3 roles), Singapore (1 role).
Job postings at Mastercard most frequently reference: model serving, inference infra, agent orchestration, rag, guardrails.
In the past 30 days, Mastercard has posted 5 new AI-related roles. That is a -79% change versus the prior 30 days (24 → 5).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer - Backend/Platform Agentic AI Senior Software Engineer focused on building and operating a first-party AI platform with agentic, conversational, and generative AI capabilities for enterprise analytics products. The role involves end-to-end development of agentic AI systems, defining technical direction, building AI-enabled services, and ensuring production-grade infrastructure, scalability, reliability, and adherence to governance and Responsible AI standards within a regulated environment. | Agent | 8 |
| Software Engineer II - Backend/Platform Agentic AI Software Engineer II - Backend/Platform Agentic AI role at Mastercard, focused on building and operating a first-party AI platform for analytics products. The role involves writing code daily, owning components end-to-end, and shipping production-grade AI-enabled services within a multi-tenant, customer-facing platform. Key responsibilities include implementing agentic workflows, integrating LLM-powered capabilities, and operating AI systems in production. |
| Agent |
| 8 |
| Lead Technical Program Manager Lead Technical Program Manager for an internal AI & Decision Product Enablement platform that powers intelligent, data-driven decision-making across market-facing financial products. The role involves driving execution of AI-driven and agent-based solutions, ensuring alignment between product, engineering, and finance stakeholders, and delivering high-impact capabilities. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their B&MI Technology Development team. This role focuses on delivering AI-driven capabilities by building and owning Java services and APIs that deliver AI-powered features, and developing/productionizing AI components in Python. The role involves implementing and operating AI systems in production, managing the full lifecycle from design to deployment, and mentoring other engineers. It blends deterministic systems engineering with AI engineering for probabilistic systems. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer for Mastercard's Global File Transfer platform, focusing on building and operating a secure, high-performance data movement system. The role involves modernizing engineering practices, including the adoption of AI-assisted development tools, and ensuring platform reliability, security, and operability. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on driving technology, platforms, and engineering practices within Mastercard's Business & Market Insights (B&MI) organization. The role involves improving CI/CD, designing reusable frameworks, leading modernization efforts with cloud-native technologies and AI-assisted engineering, and building scalable applications. It emphasizes technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration to accelerate software delivery and enhance developer productivity. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II at Mastercard designs and codes artificial intelligence, cloud, and machine learning platforms that provide mission-critical insights to many of the world’s leading organizations and governments. The role involves developing high-performing, highly scalable software solutions and products with speed and agility as part of a small team. | — | 5 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer for Mastercard's real-time Decision Management Platform, responsible for scoring and approving payment transactions. The role is hands-on, involving coding, architecture, and using AI coding tools to enhance engineering quality and speed. Focuses on building, scaling, and improving the platform's performance, reliability, and security. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to join the Mastercard Foundry R&D team, focusing on building scalable backend systems and APIs for generative AI use cases. The role involves integrating pre-trained models, ensuring performance and reliability of AI services, and collaborating with data science and ML teams to productionize AI capabilities. Requires strong backend engineering experience, familiarity with AI/ML integration, and cloud deployment. | Serve | 5 |
| Manager, Software Engineering Manager of Software Engineering for the Mastercard Authentication team, focusing on enhancing and modernizing payments services. The role involves leading multiple scrum teams, defining and delivering strategic initiatives, providing technical leadership in Java, microservices, and event-based applications, and ensuring the development of a global technology platform with a focus on performance, security, and reliability. A key aspect is driving AI augmented development and integrating AI agents with enterprise tools. | Ship | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build robust IBM ODM Rule solutions for transaction-level decisions, alerting, and notifications. The role involves modernizing platforms, especially for Fraud Rules/Engines, and working with high-throughput, low-latency global platforms. While AI experience is focused on using AI-assisted development tools and familiarity with Gen AI/LLMs for Fraud Rules, the core of the role is in rule engineering and platform development within the payments domain. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build robust IBM ODM Rule solutions for transaction-level decisions, alerting, and notifications. The role involves modernizing platforms, especially for Fraud Rules/Engines, and working with high-throughput, low-latency global platforms. While AI experience is focused on using AI-assisted development tools and familiarity with Gen AI/LLMs for Fraud Rules, the core of the role is in rule engineering and platform development within the payments domain. | — | 5 |
| Foundry R&D Software Engineer II Software Engineer to join the Mastercard Foundry Research and Development team in Dublin. The role involves designing and implementing innovative capabilities using AI Tooling, working in an agile team, and researching alternative technical solutions. The team focuses on developing innovative products delivered at scale, shaping the future of commerce. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer (Full Stack) Software Engineer (Full Stack) for Mastercard Foundry R&D team, focusing on developing and delivering scalable software solutions, building innovative prototypes, and exploring emerging technologies in payments and commerce. | — | 5 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer to drive the architecture, design, and development of a next-generation experimentation platform, incorporating Generative AI (GenAI) into software products and/or the software development lifecycle. Focus on building advanced, cloud-native services and modern frameworks on AWS/Azure, leveraging Databricks and Spark for data analytics and transformations. Role involves technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and ensuring high engineering standards for scalability, performance, security, and reliability. | Ship | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to architect, build, and operate the API platform that securely exposes foundation model capabilities across the organization. This role is critical to enabling safe, scalable, and compliant adoption of generative AI and advanced analytics across Mastercard products and services. | ServeAgent | 5 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer for the AI & Decision Engineering Platform, which powers real-time fraud prevention and identity validation solutions using streaming analytics, business rules, and AI-driven decisioning. The role involves designing, implementing, and mentoring on high-performance, cloud-ready solutions for billions of transactions. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer The Senior Software Engineer will work on the AI & DPE organization's DMP platform, a cloud-native, real-time decisioning and AI inferencing system for fraud detection and enterprise decision management. The role involves hands-on rule authoring, platform modernization, and implementing best practices for high-throughput, low-latency systems, with a focus on AI technologies like Gen AI and LLMs within the fraud domain. | Serve | 5 |
| Lead software engineer Lead Software Engineer role focused on designing and implementing large-scale, highly resilient distributed systems using reactive and event-driven architectures within the payments industry. The role involves technical leadership, code reviews, partnering with product teams, and exploring emerging technologies, with an emphasis on leveraging AI development tools to enhance delivery and quality. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer at Mastercard, focusing on building Open Finance solutions. The role involves full-stack development with Java and React, designing and delivering data products, and collaborating across teams. Experience with AI coding assistants and prompt engineering for code generation is mentioned. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Data Architecture Mastercard is seeking a Principal Software Engineer, Data Architecture to define and evolve their global enterprise data architecture. This role involves setting the architectural vision for modernizing data platforms across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments, supporting both batch and real-time use cases. The engineer will act as a senior technical authority, ensuring data is designed, governed, secured, and distributed securely and at scale, while meeting stringent regulatory and performance requirements. The role emphasizes championing Data Mesh principles, establishing architecture standards, and leading the adoption of modern data technologies. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer (Big Data) Mastercard is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join the AI&DPE Data Engineering platform team, responsible for building and evolving large scale backend data systems, real time and batch pipelines, and AI enabled services that power analytics, decisioning, and automation across the organization. This role focuses on Scala/Python/Java, distributed data platforms (Cloudera/Spark), and cloud based architectures, with a strong emphasis on AI agent creation and intelligent automation. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer II Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II, who will be responsible for building and optimizing data platforms, pipelines, and systems to support advanced analytics, machine learning, and business insights. The role involves collaborating with engineering, product, and analytics teams to deliver reliable data solutions. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role on the Decision Management program, which uses business rules & AI engines, streaming big data, and in-memory data grids to deliver real-time decisions at global scale. Responsibilities include implementing application logic in Java, writing tests, participating in scrum, and applying best development practices. Requires strong Java, Spring, unit testing, SQL, and experience with high-performance applications. Desirable skills include IBM ILOG/ODM, Gemfire, Docker, Kubernetes, and Angular. | — | 0 |
| Lead Site Reliability Engineer Lead Site Reliability Engineer responsible for ensuring the production readiness, stability, and health of Mastercard products. This role focuses on fostering developer ownership, implementing operational design, automation, capacity planning, and monitoring to build fault-tolerant, scalable, and resilient products. The team aims to shift left in the development process, proactively manage production, and mitigate risks while ensuring compliance. Key responsibilities include leading the full lifecycle of services, analyzing ITSM performance, defining production readiness standards, evolving monitoring frameworks, championing automation, driving CI/CD pipelines, leading incident response, and mentoring junior engineers. | — | 0 |
| Business Operations Site Reliability Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Business Operations Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the stability and health of their platform, focusing on production readiness, developer ownership, and operational excellence. The role involves engaging in the full lifecycle of services, from design to refinement, with a strong emphasis on automation, capacity planning, monitoring, and incident response. Key responsibilities include shifting left to proactively manage production, mitigating risks, and aligning operational needs with product and customer priorities. The ideal candidate will have experience in security and/or enterprise monitoring, strong UNIX/Linux and DevOps skills, and a systematic problem-solving approach, preferably with experience in the banking/payment industry. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain complex software solutions within the Decision Management Program (DMP). This role involves technical leadership, mentoring, and contributing to the full software development lifecycle, with a focus on code quality, system design, and agile processes. The engineer will automate build/operate/run aspects, drive service integrations, and mentor junior team members. A strong background in Java, software development processes, and performance tuning is required, along with a demonstrated track record with AI. | — | 0 |
| Lead, Enterprise Operations - Messaging This role leads the enterprise messaging platform, focusing on Microsoft Exchange Online, Proofpoint, and Microsoft Purview. It ensures secure, compliant, and highly available messaging services, drives platform modernization, improves customer experience, and strengthens security posture. Responsibilities include end-to-end ownership, security and compliance implementation, incident response, vendor management, and automation. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineer II Mastercard is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer II to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of their applications supporting global operations. The role involves being a production readiness steward, fostering developer ownership, supporting the build phase with operational design, automation, capacity planning, and monitoring. Responsibilities include daily operations with a focus on triage, root cause analysis, blameless post-mortems, risk management, compliance, and aligning product priorities with operational needs. The engineer will work independently on projects, support high-availability systems, assist in evaluating operational needs, contribute to automation, troubleshoot system issues, document procedures, and participate in quality checks. | — | 0 |
| Senior Service Management Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer/Certificate Lifecycle Management Engineer to ensure platform stability and health. This role involves managing certificate renewals, supporting services before go-live, analyzing ITSM activities, and ensuring adherence to operational and security standards. The engineer will foster developer ownership, implement automation, and contribute to fault-tolerant and scalable products within a regulated fintech environment. | — | 0 |
| Principal Systems Engineer Principal Systems Engineer to drive customer experience strategy for the SME Partnerships and Cashflow division. The role involves designing and building cloud-native solutions at global scale, supporting high transaction volumes for a B2B technology platform. Responsibilities include defining architectural vision, developing roadmaps, leading architecture reviews, and providing technical leadership. The role also involves leveraging AI-driven tools to enhance engineering efficiency. | — | 0 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the Xborder team, focusing on solving problems, implementing automation, and leveraging best practices to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the platform. This role involves engaging in the full lifecycle of services, from design to operation, and embedding SRE principles into the delivery process. | — | 0 |
| Site Reliability Engineering Manager Mastercard's Xborder team is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering Manager to lead the SRE transformation, focusing on reliability, scalability, and production readiness of technology platforms. The role involves embedding operational excellence, driving automation, managing incident response, and developing a high-performing global team. Experience in financial services is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Director, Enterprise Operations Director, Enterprise Operations at Mastercard to drive customer experience strategy, lead hybrid teams, and modernize service delivery. Focuses on defining global support strategy, leading the shift to proactive and digital-first support through automation and self-service, and advancing continuous improvement using analytics and emerging technologies. Ensures global service delivery excellence, provides executive insights, and develops a high-performing workforce. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer (Java - SDET) Lead Software Engineer (Java - SDET) for Mastercard's Decision Management Platform, focusing on developing and testing high-performance, low-latency Java solutions for fraud detection and cardholder identity validation. The role involves designing, implementing, and ensuring quality assurance for a platform that processes billions of transactions monthly. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Platform Engineering - Big Data Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering - Big Data Engineering role at Mastercard. This position leads a team responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and resilient platform infrastructure, focusing on Big Data Engineering. The role involves hands-on technical leadership, people management, driving adoption of modern engineering practices like IaC, container platforms, CI/CD, and microservices, and fostering a collaborative team environment. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II on the Decision Management Program (DMP) team at Mastercard, focusing on customer experience strategy by working with advanced decisioning and intelligence platforms. The role involves the full software development lifecycle, troubleshooting, optimization, and collaboration within an Agile Scrum team. | — | 0 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard focused on the architecture and design of microservices for API and web authentication authorizations. The role involves end-to-end ownership, leading complex engineering initiatives, and ensuring software quality, performance, and security in a global technology company within the payments industry. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their ADUEX Engineering organization. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure, and innovative cloud-native software solutions for small and medium businesses globally. The engineer will be responsible for the full software lifecycle, from architecture and design to production operations, focusing on performance, reliability, security, and compliance. | — | 0 |
| Manager Software Engineering (QA/Automation) Leads a team of software engineers delivering enterprise integration solutions across cloud-based platforms. Provides technical leadership, drives large-scale initiatives, and ensures high-quality, scalable, and secure software delivery aligned to business priorities. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II to help build a high-performance analytics platform that enables businesses to unlock greater value from their data. This role involves leveraging full-stack development expertise to design, build, deploy, and scale real-time, interactive applications used by thousands of clients globally. The platform blends industry-leading analytics, advanced software architecture, and the latest web technologies. | — | 0 |
| Senior Analytics Engineer Mastercard is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer responsible for defining and maintaining data architecture, data maintenance, integration, and load processes. The role involves selecting and developing database technologies, optimizing SQL queries, ensuring database security, and providing technical assistance for database performance. Experience with AWS, Databricks, Python, Spark, and Lakehouse is required. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II on the Transaction Stream team, responsible for designing, building, testing, and enhancing applications and services that power real-time payment networks at a global scale. Focuses on backend services, APIs, and application features using Java, Spring Boot, and Spring Data JPA, with an emphasis on security, maintainability, and scalability. | — | 0 |
| Director Enterprise Order Management Platform This role is for a Director of Enterprise Order Management Platform at Mastercard. The primary focus is on leading the implementation and long-term ownership of a cloud-based Order Management platform, ensuring seamless integration across the enterprise order-to-cash landscape. Responsibilities include platform strategy, delivery enablement, integration leadership, and overseeing operational readiness and support. The role requires deep expertise in Order Management and Order-to-Cash processes, with a strong emphasis on cloud-to-on-prem integration patterns and cross-functional delivery leadership. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role at Mastercard focused on building authentication and security solutions for the Identity Solutions platform. Responsibilities include designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining scalable, cloud-native applications and microservices using Java and Spring Boot, with a strong emphasis on performance, scalability, reliability, and security. The role involves translating requirements into designs, leading system design discussions, writing tests, optimizing performance, applying secure coding practices, and troubleshooting production issues. Collaboration with product, security, and platform teams, as well as mentoring junior engineers, is expected. Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and Agile environments is required. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II to help drive software delivery strategy by building secure, reliable, and scalable cloud-native solutions. Focus on Java, Spring Boot, and REST API development, with experience in relational databases and CI/CD practices. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II on the Operations & Technology Fraud Products team developing new capabilities for MasterCard's Decision Management Platform, which combats fraud and validates cardholder identity. The platform processes billions of transactions per month with high performance and availability. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Mastercard's Ethoca division is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain secure and scalable software solutions for fraud detection in e-commerce. The role involves working in an agile team, contributing to architectural decisions, and mentoring junior engineers. Experience with Java, Spring, cloud-native development (Azure), databases, and Big Data technologies is required. | — | 0 |
| Principal Software Engineer (Real-Time Payments) Principal Software Engineer role focused on real-time payments platform, requiring deep technical expertise, architectural guidance, and hands-on execution for high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems in a regulated environment. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role within Mastercard's Core Payments division, focusing on designing, building, and operating solutions for end-to-end clearing and settlement processing of credit and debit offline transactions. The role involves developing software components, ensuring compliance with standards, maintaining data integrity, and enabling high-volume transaction processing. | — | 0 |