Mastercard is seeking a Lead Software Engineer/Software Architect for their Merchant Acceptance Program. The role involves designing and architecting scalable, cloud-native microservices-based solutions for global payment systems. The successful candidate will drive overall architecture, design enterprise-grade APIs, ensure high availability and system resiliency, provide technical leadership and mentorship, and collaborate with senior technical and product leaders.

The position requires 12+ years of product engineering experience, expertise in microservices architecture, cloud-native technologies (Azure/AWS, Kubernetes), financial systems at global scale, Java/Spring technologies, and strong communication skills.

Overview

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. As the Software Architect for the Mastercard Merchant Acceptance Program, you will bring deep expertise in modern software architecture designed for global scale, high-transaction volume, and cloud-native technologies.

Merchant Acceptance Program consists of products and solutions that aim to increase Mastercard's acceptance footprint and improve the quality of cardholder experience at the point of interaction.

Role

- - Drive the overall architecture using deep expertise in microservices-based architectures for the fintech industry

- - Ensure solutions use modern cloud-native architecture design principles

- - Design enterprise-grade APIs for services that follow Mastercard best practices

- - Design and maintain technical blueprints and service descriptions for solutions

- - Incorporate high-availability and system resiliency into solutions to maximize uptime and capacity

- - Partner with senior technical and product leaders to deliver on designs

- - Perform reviews to ensure teams are following architectural designs

- - Collaborate with service architects, development teams, operations, and product owners





- - Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams and service architects

- - Represent the program as the primary architect and technical advocate with other groups within Mastercard

- - Partner with the Architecture and Technology team to leverage best practices in global-scale systems, including on-soil and cloud deployment scenarios

Requirements

- - More than 12 years of rich product engineering experience designing scalable software solutions

- - Exceptional foundation in Computer Science fundamentals, microservices-based software architecture, and web applications

- - Demonstrated experience architecting solutions based on containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies

- - Robust system design skills

- - Experience architecting and designing high-transaction-volume financial systems that operate at global scale with extreme uptime requirements

- - Extensive experience designing and building global-scale back-end microservices using Java, Spring, and Spring Boot

- - Deep understanding of storage technologies such as PostgreSQL or SQL Server at massive scale

- - Deep experience with cloud-native technologies and best practices, including Azure and AWS

- - Experience with automated testing and continuous delivery using Git

- - Experience with web technologies including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks such as Angular or React (nice to have)

- - Strong desire to collaborate and provide mentorship to technology teams

- - Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

- - Comfortable working in an Agile environment focused on continuous improvement

Security Responsibilities

Every person working for or on behalf of Mastercard is responsible for information security.

The successful candidate must

- - Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices

- - Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of information being accessed

- - Report any suspected information security violation or breach

- - Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines

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