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
Lead Software Engineer
Position Overview
Have you ever wanted to be part of something BIG?
Now is the time to make an immediate impact at a leading global technology company, Mastercard.
This role is part of the AI&DPE; Data Engineering platform team, responsible for building and evolving large scale backend data systems, real time and batch pipelines, and AI enabled services that power analytics, decisioning, and automation across the organization.
This is a backend engineering role, focused on Scala/Python/Java, distributed data platforms (Cloudera/Spark),



and cloud based architectures, with a robust emphasis on AI agent creation and intelligent automation. Visualization tools (e.g., Qlik) are consumers of the platform, not the core focus of this role.
You will work with massive transactional datasets, modern big data and cloud platforms, and AI driven workflows to transform how Mastercard processes, enriches, and operationalizes data at global scale.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Backend & Data Platform Engineering

Design, develop, and maintain backend services and data pipelines using Scala, Python and Java
Build and optimize batch and streaming workloads on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) using Spark
Work with Cloudera Manager to support platform configuration, monitoring, performance tuning, and operational stability
Design and implement high quality datamarts and curated datasets with strong emphasis on data integrity, performance, and reliability

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📌 Lead Software Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Mastercard
📍 Pune