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
This is an exciting opportunity for you to join Mastercard and contribute to improving the transaction time for millions of daily credit card transactions all over the world. This position is on the St. Louis performance Agile team working closely with the other Authorization development teams. You will have the chance to use and improve a suite of tools to assess transaction time each release. We are looking for engineers that are passionate about performance and development with a constant focus on improving quality.

All About You
• Do you have a passion for solving complex technical challenges?
• Do you love learning new technologies and apply it to your team?
• Have you set technical direction and mentored junior engineers?
• Do you have experience in automation and love it?
• Have you created many scripts to automate and interface with programs (i.e. shell script, TCL, Perl, Python)?
• Do you understand throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization?
• Have you spent significant time in Linux environments with some experience administrating?
• Have you developed software before – preferably in C/C++?
• Do you know about different inter-process communications (i.e. shared memory, MQ, Kafka)?
• Do you have experience and prefer working in an Agile environment?
• Have you worked with big, real-time, and distributed systems?

Responsibilities
• Work closely with software development teams to identify risks and anticipate problems to ensure that each release does not negatively impact performance
• Dig into the Authorization code to determine performance bottlenecks
• Design, configure, and execute performance tests
• Improve the current performance environment with your own code, automation, and onboarding of external tools (i.e. Dynatrace and Splunk)
• Drive performance issues to resolution
• Apply technical capabilities to coach and develop junior employees
• Deliver department and external presentations conveying domain level experience

Mastercard is an 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. 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.