Lead Software Engineer

Job Title:

Lead Software Engineer

Overview:

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.

Technology at Mastercard
What we create today will define tomorrow. Revolutionary technologies that reshape the digital economy to be more connected and inclusive than ever before. Safer, faster, more sustainable.
And we need the best people to do it. 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. Inclusive and diverse, a rich collaboration of ideas and perspectives. A place that celebrates your strengths, values your experiences, and offers you the flexibility to shape a career across disciplines and continents. And the opportunity to work alongside experts and leaders at every level of the business, improving what exists, and inventing what's next.
About the role
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 Software Engineer, you will deliver 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:

• Own complex problems with dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution

• Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners

• Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development

• Introduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines

• Provide development and architecture guidance to team members

All about you

• It is expected a candidate should have experience across multiple areas listed below.

• Experience designing or creating complex, multi-tier distributed systems. Subject matter expert in areas of interest with a history of innovation, introducing new processes and technologies.

• Key driver/owner for delivering multiple product features on or ahead of schedule. 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.

• Strong oral and written communicator with expertise in evangelizing complex ideas/solutions, spanning multiple, often conflicting, requirements. Facilitates discussions amongst technical and business stakeholders across organization and team boundaries to build consensus.

• 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. Drives efforts to build and maintain lower environments that accurately reflect production.

• 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.

• Highly regarded mentor. 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. Finds way pitches in and lends support where needed. Valuable partner with organization and business partners in all roles and geographies.

• Key technical voice in anticipating, articulating, and evangelizing solutions to technical challenges, spanning org/team boundaries, based on broader industry trends, prioritized based on business needs.

Equal opportunities considerations
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 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.To find US Salary Ranges, visit People Place. Under the Compensation tab, select "Salary Structures." Within the text of "Salary Structures," click on the link "salary structures 2025," through which you will be able to access the salary ranges for each Mastercard job family. For more information regarding US benefits, visit People Place and review the Benefits tab and the Time Off & Leave tab.

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