# Senior Software Engineer

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: London, England
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

You'll join the Real Time Payments (RTP) Platform, Tooling & Engineering Enablement team as a senior technical individual contributor.

We uplift engineering across RTP and act as a force multiplier for the program. We align RTP to Mastercard standards across platform, CI/CD, and governance, while improving developer experience and supporting AI enablement.

You’ll apply strong engineering knowledge to technical problems, working with teams across RTP Engineering.

**How success is measured** The team is measured on four key areas:

- Developer Experience – DX improves across RTP and stays above the Mastercard benchmark

- Innovation & Architecture – the right technology comes into RTP, and what works is shared back with the enterprise

- AI Enablement – AI is adopted consistently and acts as a force multiplier across RTP

- Standards & Governance – Mastercard and RTP standards embedded, with teams, including our own, held to them

**Major Accountabilities**

- Apply strong engineering expertise to improve how RTP builds, tests, and ships software

- Contribute to the design and delivery of secure, resilient, and scalable solutions with clear, well-documented designs

- Investigate technical problems, analysing data and areas of failure or inefficiency, and turn findings into practical recommendations

- Evaluate approved engineering practices and technologies that could improve how RTP works

- Support practical AI adoption across RTP Engineering teams using approved tools

- Help embed standards and governance by supporting adoption, reviewing how we work, and helping turn gaps into owned actions or items for the program tech roadmap

- Work with teams across RTP to support shared engineering outcomes

- Communicate technical topics clearly to leadership through concise reporting and recommendations

- Share engineering knowledge and provide guidance to engineers across cross-functional teams

**Education**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering, or equivalent experience

**Knowledge / Experience**

- Strong experience in software engineering and software design, with Java desired

- Strong experience in CI/CD

- Strong experience in platform engineering and cloud

- Experience delivering complex technical work and contributing to solution design

- Experience using AI in day-to-day engineering, such as AI coding assistants and agents, and supporting adoption across teams

- Experience applying engineering standards, including design, secure coding, and testing

- Experience presenting technical information clearly to business and technology audiences

- Experience supporting and guiding other engineers

- Experience working effectively across teams without direct authority

- Knowledge of payments, or experience working in a regulated industry

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## Skills

### Required
- Java
- CI/CD
- platform engineering
- cloud
- AI
- software design
- secure coding
- testing

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