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Senior Software Engineer

Mastercard · Spain · back to the listing

HR standards

55/100

needs work

Title ↔ description

80/100

solid

Reads as

Backend Engineer

100% confident

What this role officially is

software developer — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Software developers implement or program all kinds of software systems based on specifications and designs by using programming languages, tools, and platforms.

Also known as: application developer, application programmer, solutions developer, programmer, software specialist, application software developer

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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

Senior Software EngineerOverview:
Software engineers working on Mastercard’s Open Banking platform play a key role in the development and maintenance of the products that secure high quality connectivity to banks across Europe. Building on the strong foundation of our state-of-the-art bank connectivity APIs, the engineers create turn-key solutions that take the burden of handling account information and payment initiation services from customers that want to spend their efforts building great products that leverage the full potential of the Open Banking standard.

Role:

Open Banking engineers work at the bleeding edge of the account information and payment initiation technologies, often solving problems that are yet to be tackled within the industry in areas of API security, data accessibility, processing, and analysis. You will be joining a group of highly skilled individuals working together as a team to push the limits of what is possible to achieve with open banking.

You will have many colleagues around different countries, with your nearest peers being located primarily in Denmark and Poland.

About you:
We are looking for motivated individuals that are looking to be a part of a newly formed team comprised of both industry veterans as well as newcomers. What they all have in common is the understanding that in order to achieve great things, being able to work together as a team is a must.
You will be spending most of your time in the Microsoft domain, meaning APIs built in C# with .NET (latest version) and ASP.NET deployed to the cloud (Azure). Deep knowledge of at least some of these areas is a requirement. However, we believe that learning is a part of the job, so if you for example have extensive experience building ASP.NET apps, but not in the cloud, do not hesitate to apply regardless.

Beyond that, it is expected that you have experience building software using modern development standards, meaning it should not come as a surprise that we utilise all the tools at our disposal from standard ticketing systems (Azure DevOps), VCS, test automation, to CI/CD pipelines.
Additionally, if you have experience with provisioning infrastructure as code (Terraform) as well as interest in computer security (Certificates, HTTPS) it would be a great benefit. Prior experience from working in closely regulated industries (financial, medical, etc.) is welcome, but not required.

And above all, we hope that you love solving problems!

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.

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Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 8 points (from 63 before penalties). Reviewed 21 Sep 2026.