Lead Software Engineer

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

Overview:
Mastercard’s Test and Learn team is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in our rapidly growing and successful organization. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate closely with seasoned engineers to tackle complex problems as a cohesive team. You'll engage with cutting-edge product opportunities, address modern business challenges, and work with intricate datasets that present uniquely demanding problems. You will contribute to the development of APIs and services that are integral to the Test & Learn platform, while maintaining a strong connection to our customers and the business value we deliver.
The Test & Learn teams within Mastercard's Services organization aim to build industry-leading business experimentation software that brings sophisticated analytic techniques to business users around the world. We are rapidly expanding our product offerings and innovating on how we deliver Test & Learn solutions to our clients.
Engineers work in small, flexible teams. Every team member contributes to designing, building, and testing features. There are no rigid organizational structures, and each team uses processes that work best for team members and projects.

This hybrid position is based in Arlington, VA, requiring three days per week onsite.

Role:
• Build features used by some of the world's largest organizations to make multi-million-dollar decisions.
• Lead and push the boundaries of analytics and powerful, scalable applications.
• Identify non-functional requirements for features and design technical implementations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define software architecture and design patterns that meet business requirements and align with best practices.
• Design and build APIs and infrastructure that serve a broad audience.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.
• Ensure code quality, maintainability, and scalability through code reviews and automated testing.
• Analyze performance characteristics in technical systems and implement solutions to improve performance.
• Set technical vision for the team as well as developing strategies to implement the vision
• Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical requirements and deliver high-impact features.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks at various levels of the stack, including database queries, API calls, and front-end rendering.

All About You:
• Extensive experience as a full-stack Software Engineer or Software Developer with a strong emphasis in an agile production environment.
• Strong proficiency in object-oriented programming, microservice development, and database management, with expertise in C# / .NET, JavaScript (React, Redux, Angular, TypeScript), and SQL Server.
• Deep experience analyzing performance characteristics in technical systems and implementing solutions to enhance scalability, efficiency, and reliability.
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, and working with APIs and other software infrastructure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on improving processes to accelerate delivery, foster innovation, reduce costs, and improve quality.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.


This role is not eligible for Mastercard’s work authorization sponsorship. As such, candidates must be eligible to work in the United States, now as well as in the future, without employer sponsorship.

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Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.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.

Corporate Security Responsibility

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;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

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

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

Arlington, Virginia: $159,000 - $254,000 USD