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

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.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team –one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results.


Overview

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.

Supporting the Mastercard Cyber and Security Services program members of this team have an opportunity to build new and extend current fraud prevention services. This exciting area within Mastercard is growing fast and creating cutting edge technologies that prevent fraud across the globe.

This is an agile team that will be balanced across full stack engineering and data engineering. The team will also provide leadership for other teams in using strong architecture and technology delivery practices that create the best solutions.

The Lead Software Engineer will play a critical role in creating new products and new functionality.

Role

• Designing and delivering detailed solutions to complex technical challenges, while helping your team understand and follow the path forward.
• Analyzing product or application hardware/software to ensure alignment with business and functional goals.
• Providing subject matter expertise and strategic direction on your assigned projects.
• Translating system requirements into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria in an Agile framework.
• Automating the entire lifecycle: build, operate, and run processes for enhanced efficiency.
• Leading the integration of services with a strong focus on optimizing customer experience and journey.
• Continuously expanding your technical knowledge—always striving to improve and innovate within our systems.
• Leading demos, guiding discussions with Product Owners, and championing the adoption of best practices.
• Reviewing code, test automation, and other engineering deliverables to ensure they meet high standards.
• Mentoring and providing technical guidance to junior engineers, helping them grow in their careers.
• Contributing to development with a mix of Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL, and Spark.
• Writing and maintaining robust unit tests to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including testers and engineers, to ensure end-to-end requirements are met and thoroughly tested.

All About You

Essential

• Proven experience in gathering and documenting technical requirements, with a strong focus on clarity and precision.
• Advanced expertise in Java development, including design patterns, threading, unit testing, debugging, and Spring Boot.
• Solid experience designing and developing RESTful services.
• Experience with data analysis and problem-solving in technical environments.
• Highly energetic, detail-oriented, and proactive with a knack for thriving under pressure in collaborative, Agile settings.
• Self-motivated with a continuous learning mindset and a drive to take on new challenges.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with an ability to foster relationships and work effectively within a team.
• Proficient in SQL and confident using it for complex queries.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies, such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
• Exposure to Hadoop, Spark, Hive, or Impala.
• Experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and frameworks like Angular or React.
• Comfortable collaborating and sharing ideas in tools like Microsoft Teams or Slack.

Nice to Have

• Experience with high-performance, high-availability transaction processing systems and multi-tiered web applications.
• Security experience, especially in developing secure systems.
• Familiarity with queueing technologies such as Kafka.

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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.