Senior Software Engineer (Sanctions Service & AI Inference)

Join Mastercard as a Senior Software Engineer in Vancouver, where you will play a key role in advancing the company's Sanctions Screening solutions. You will design, develop, and support business-critical software systems that operate at a global scale, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, secure, and innovative solutions. This position offers the opportunity to work on a highly visible platform and shape the adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance software solutions for sanctions screening.
• Drive technical design and implementation of new product capabilities and platform improvements, and participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle.
• Mentor and coach engineers through technical guidance, knowledge sharing, and hands-on leadership, while promoting engineering best practices.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical and technical design skills

Requirements

• Proven ability to mentor engineers and provide technical leadership
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Strong understanding of software reliability, performance and security principles

Experience with automated testing and software quality practices

• Strong software engineering experience with Java and modern application development frameworks
• Experience designing and building scalable, highly available distributed systems
• Experience in payments, compliance, fraud, risk management or financial services
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and modern software delivery practices
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline

Preferred

• Experience working in highly regulated and mission-critical environments
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools, agentic workflows or intelligent automation solutions