Created in 2022, Mastercard Foundry is an integral aspect of Mastercard’s plan to bring a billion people into the digital economy by 2025.
Mastercard Foundry plans to double its engineering staff in 2022 to facilitate the scaling of its most successful products. In the past four years, 10 Works engineers have made invaluable contributions to various projects, with a particular focus on financial inclusion. This collaboration has since extended to encompass a broader range of Mastercard’s operations.
- Quickly integrating top engineering talent to sustainably fulfil growth or shrinkage demands.
- The Mastercard Foundry was able to source and recruit highly-skilled personnel in an extremely short timeframe of two to four weeks, as opposed to the usual eight to twelve weeks it takes Mastercard to fill a full-time position.
- Mastercard Foundry has been supported by the IT sector for a long time, which has enabled the swift creation of commercially successful products and services across the globe.
- Works technologists worked in partnership with Mastercard engineers on various projects that had been extensively tested with a specific emphasis on the particular needs of the financial services sector.