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, straightforward, 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. Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

Who is Mastercard?

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere, by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships, and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. Technology at Mastercard

Revolutionary technologies that reshape the digital economy to be more connected and inclusive than ever before. Technologists who are energized by the challenges of a truly global network. With the talent and vision to create the critical systems and products that power global commerce and connect people everywhere to the vital goods and services they need every day.

Working at Mastercard means being part of a unique culture. A place that celebrates your strengths, values your experiences, and offers you the flexibility to shape a career across disciplines and continents. Software Engineers at Mastercard design and code a variety of applications covering transaction processing, analytics, user interfaces, and APIs using a blend of cutting-edge technologies across big data, distributed systems, machine learning, and more. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will lead the delivery of these products and solutions with speed and agility as part of a small team.



This will involve developing high-performing, highly scalable software solutions and products for some of the world’s top brands. Specific tasks vary depending on the project and the business unit that you join in.

All staff at Mastercard are expected to demonstrate 'Mastercard Way' cultural values every day - own it, simplify it, sense of urgency, thoughtful risk-taking, unlock potential, and be inclusive – with a relentless focus on our customers. As a Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard, you are expected to perform the following general responsibilities:

Lead one or two squads of senior and junior engineers and own the software development and delivery

Ensure benchmarks are met on quality, performance, info security and other NFRs

Communicate effectively and coordinate with various global groups in MasterCard to ensure success of the projects.

Lead various initiatives for improving automation, defect metrics and overall quality.

Full Stack Development hands on experience using Java, Springboot tech stack, Microservice Architecture, Messaging/Event Driven Frameworks, CI/CD on a Cloud Native environment

Experience on System design and Architecture, on multi-tier distributed systems

Experience using AI tools and ability to explore and adapt to newer skillset

Extensive experience leading the full product development lifecycle including coordinating/shepherding technical design discussions, documentation, comparing & contrasting approaches, tasking out stories, and architecting test plans.

Drives operational excellence by suggesting improvements to product modules/features using test data,



performance data, and production metrics. Leverage testing to verify both functional and non-functional application requirements. Demonstrable expertise with root cause analysis of issues in multi-tier distributed systems, with the ability to prescribe risk-reward balanced short-, mid- and long-term changes, over multiple release cycles.

Instills best practices and proactively coaches others to high technical and quality standards. Identifies and sponsors junior teammates for key growth opportunities.

Extensive experience using enterprise tooling and processes to improve products and processes by proposing changes/enhancements to the full SDLC lifecycle.

Approaches discussions and problem solving, across organization and team boundaries with differing motivations/priorities, with empathy and a goal of building consensus. In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact View email address on joinrs.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

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