Jobs / United States / Mastercard International Incorporated
Software Engineer II
Mastercard International Incorporated · 🇺🇸 Arlington, Virginia
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 76 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 286 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Mastercard International Incorporated paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Data Engineer” (Software Developers) in VA: $126k–$126k, median $126k. Most were filed at wage level II (100%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Mastercard International Incorporated
The US Department of Labor certified 76 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 286 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 Software Engineer II Overview: Mastercard’s Business Experimentation and Optimization (BE&O) teams within the Services organization is seeking a technically strong Software Engineer II to help design, build, and evolve a next-generation experimentation platform that enables organizations around the world to make smarter, data-driven decisions. In this role, you will contribute across the full software development lifecycle, from architecture and system design through implementation, testing, and continuous improvement. You will build scalable, cloud-native applications, APIs, and data-processing capabilities using technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, React, Databricks, and Spark, with cloud platforms including AWS and Azure. The Business Experimentation and Optimization (BE&O) is building industry-leading software that empowers business users around the world to make data-driven decisions through advanced analytics and experimentation. As we expand our product offerings and modernize our technology stack, we are reimagining how we deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions to our clients. Our teams are small, agile, and empowered to choose the processes that work best for their goals. Every engineer contributes to the full development lifecycle, from ideation and design to implementation and testing, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement. This is a hybrid role based in Arlington, VA, requiring three days per week onsite. Role: • Design, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack applications across frontend, backend, API, and data-processing layers using technologies such as Java/Spring Boot, TypeScript, and React. • Build and enhance scalable services and APIs that support experimentation, analytics, and data-driven decision-making. • Develop and optimize data-intensive applications using Databricks, Spark, and related technologies to process, transform, and serve large-scale datasets efficiently. • Contribute to architecture and system design, evaluating technical tradeoffs and helping deliver solutions that are scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable. • Build innovative software products that help global businesses generate insights, test ideas, and make better decisions through experimentation. • Translate business and product requirements into well-designed technical solutions in partnership with Product, Data Engineering, QA, and other stakeholders. • Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while applying strong engineering practices across development, testing, code reviews, and deployment. • Identify and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability challenges across applications, APIs, services, and data-processing workloads. • Participate in the full development lifecycle, from technical discovery and design through implementation, testing, production support, and continuous improvement. • Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence by sharing knowledge, supporting teammates, and helping improve development practices and developer productivity. • Stay current with emerging technologies and engineering practices, identifying opportunities to improve the platform’s capabilities, scalability, and overall quality. All About You: • Exper