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Mastercard is a technology company in the global payments business. We connect consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses worldwide and enable them to use secure and convenient electronic forms of payment. Mastercard is a driving force at the heart of commerce, enabling global transactions and bringing insight into the payments process to make commerce faster, more secure, and more valuable to everyone involved. As a critical link among financial institutions and millions of businesses, cardholders and merchants worldwide, Mastercard provides services in more than 210 countries and territories. You find more information on www.mastercardworldwide.com.
The role
The Mastercard Summer Internship Program is a comprehensive program where students will gain hands on real work-life skills while having fun and contributing to a global company. As an intern, you will be challenged with completing projects that will enhance your skills as well as contribute to the department’s goals and objectives.
Across the summer, you’ll jump into experiencing work & life at Mastercard whilst gaining valuable professional experience and the opportunity to network. Successful interns also have the opportunity to secure a place of our Launch program upon graduating, which you can find out more about here.
Program components
- Challenging and impactful projects
- Networking, mentorship, and access to senior leaders
- Volunteer and team building experiences
- Participation in a global innovation challenge that could have material impact on Mastercard’s future
What you’ll do
Mastercard works to connect and power a sustainable and inclusive global economy. Software engineers at Mastercard build the systems that process transactions, analyse data and detect fraud to gain insight into the direction of the economy on behalf of our customers. We are focused on building simple, safe and smart solutions that instil trust in every interaction. Our industry expertise is enhanced by our commitment to being a force for good in the world and to doing well by doing good.
Mastercard software engineering teams are obsessed with security, reliability, and performance and driven to deliver solutions that delight our customers. We are looking for talented software engineers to develop advanced technologies and applications that are revolutionizing payments.
- A hands-on engineer who writes high-quality code with a focus on security, design, and maintainability.
- Contribute to all phases of software development from design through rollout.
- Have strong ownership of your team’s software including monitoring, dependencies, build, and deployments.
What you’ll need
- To be available to work Full-Time between 24th June – 30th August
- To be a Penultimate Masters/Undergraduate Student, due to graduate no earlier than 2025
- Studying Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar
- Experience using Python, Java, C#, JavaScript or similar
- Innovative thinking and thoughtful risk-taking.
- Ability to partner across the organization.
- Sound communication skills.
