Software Engineer, Launch Program 2025 – Budapest, Hungary

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Software Engineer, Launch Program 2025 – Budapest, Hungary

Mastercard Launch
Mastercard Launch is an 18-month global development program providing recent graduates with opportunities and exposure. You will not only enhance your professional growth and skills in a global setting, you’ll launch your Mastercard career.

Overview:
The Cyber and Intelligence Solutions (C&I) team is responsible for product management and innovative product development of products and services to address the evolving risk & cyber security needs of all of MasterCard’s various customer segments. The C&I team was established with the responsibility to safeguard all aspects of safety and security in payments and have made great strides with new products, services and standards, positively impacting all aspects of our current and future payment eco-system.

Ekata, a Mastercard company, is the global standard in identity verification, providing businesses worldwide the ability to link any digital transaction to the human behind it. Our Ekata Identity Engine, the first and only of its kind, uses complex machine learning to combine features derived from the billions of transactions within our proprietary network and the data from our graph to deliver industry leading risk assessment solutions.  
Here are two exciting opportunities available within our team!

1) Name of the Role: Software Engineer I - CoreIP

In this role You will:
• Work with low latency, cross-region API products processing transactions across the globe
• Analyze Data and support Data Driven decision makings
• Develop in Scala and in Clojure
• Get involved in SDLC
• Automate and maintain data workflows in a distributed environment
• Be responsible for the performance and the tests of your code
• Work in SCRUM with continuous planning
• Work with active support of senior colleagues
• Work in cloud (AWS) environment

All About You: 
• Fluent in English (verbal and written)
• Interest in data science/analysis is a plus
• Interest in functional programming is a plus
• Fluent in at least one commonly used programming language, JVM based language especially Scala/Clojure is a plus
• Open to work in non-regular working hours (start late finish late)

2) Name of the Role: Software Engineer I – Identity Network

In this role You will:
• Work with big data platforms and technologies
• Develop in Scala and in Spark
• Get involved in SDLC
• Automate and maintain data workflows in a distributed environment
• Analyze and optimize ETL processes
• Be responsible for the performance and the tests of your code
• Work in SCRUM with continuous planning
• Work with active support of senior colleagues
• Work in cloud (AWS) environment

All About You: 
• Fluent in English (verbal and written)
• Interest of learning big data processes
• Interest in data science/analysis is a plus
• Interest in functional programming is a plus
• Fluent in at least one commonly used programming language, JVM based language especially Scala is a plus
• Open to work in non-regular working hours (start late finish late)

3) Name of the Role: Software Engineer I – Data Science
In this role You will:
• Build ML solutions for various fraud prevention uses cases
• Analyze Data and support Data Driven decision makings
• Work with big data platforms and technologies
• Get involved and support the whole ML model lifecycle
• Be responsible for the performance and the tests of your code
• Work in SCRUM with continuous planning
• Work with active support of senior colleagues
• Work in cloud (AWS) environment

All About You: 
• Fluent in English (verbal and written)
• Interest of learning big data processes
• Interest in data science modelling and data analysis
• Fluent in Python, SQL is a plus
• Spark is a plus
• Open to work in non-regular working hours (start late finish late)

What you’ll need  
• To be available for start from 3rd March 2025
• To be a Final Year Masters/Undergraduate Student or to have graduated no earlier than September 2024

• Strong verbal and written communication skills   
• Analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Strong strategic and conceptual aptitude 
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple projects concurrently 
• High-energy, can-do attitude, very strong sense of ownership and desire to succeed with commensurate analytical, technical, and strategic skills  

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.