Full Stack Lead Software Engineer, Mastercard
Global payments technology company
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Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and have the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment
- Must provide the necessary skills to have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results
- Possesses strong communication skills -- both verbal and written – and strong relationship, collaborative skills and organizational skills
- Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team
- Deep knowledge of software development processes including agile processes and test-driven development
- Experience with the design and development of complex, multi-tier full stack software solutions
- Strong experience with React (functional components, hooks)
- Experience with modern JavaScript / TypeScript
- Experience designing scalable UI architectures and reusable component patterns
- Strong experience defining and implementing API-driven UI integrations
- A wide breadth and depth of knowledge using Java (11+) and Spring Boot / Spring. Including Web Services – REST/XML/JSON
- Strong Linux and shell scripting
- Oracle & PL/SQL and advanced SQL scripting
- Strong testing experience across:
- Backend (JUnit, Mockito)
- Frontend (Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright or equivalent)
- Experience designing and building scalable microservices and distributed systems
- Strong understanding of API design, data modelling, and service resiliency
- Advanced CI/CD leadership: pipeline design, policy-as-code, automated compliance checks, and deployment strategies at scale
- Proven ability to drive engineering quality: architecture reviews, design standards, reliability practices, and secure coding patterns
- Strong experience leading delivery across multiple teams and managing dependencies
- Proven track record improving engineering quality, standards, and delivery outcomes
- Strong production ownership: SLOs, on-call readiness, performance engineering, cost optimization, and operational metrics
- Experience with monitoring service performance
- Experience with visual design tools (Visio, Confluence Gliffy, etc.)
- Typically 8–12+ years with demonstrated technical leadership, architecture ownership, and large-scale production delivery
Desirable
- Messaging – MQ and JMS
- Experience integrating vendor and open source products into an overall system
- Experience working with containerised environments, such as Kubernetes/OpenShift/CloudFoundry
- Experience with integration frameworks such as Apache Camel/Spring Integration
- Experience implementing or contributing to design systems or shared UI component libraries
- Experience leading platform or shared service teams
- Domain experience in payments, fraud, or high-compliance enterprise environments
- Experience influencing stakeholders and driving cross-organizational alignment
What the job involves
- This role involves working with a team of talented developers to develop high performance, high volume solutions
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of blueprint-driven capabilities into scalable production services
- Drive technical direction, engineering standards, and cross-team execution while remaining hands-on for critical components and architecture decisions
- Lead end to end design and delivery of full stack solutions with a strong focus on architecting complex React-based UI applications (Java Spring Boot + React)
- Define and drive API contracts, service integrations, and UI interaction patterns across teams
- Set technical direction for microservices, CI/CD, observability, security, and performance standards
- Architect and deliver scalable microservices, including service boundaries, data models, and resiliency patterns
- Lead development of performant, reusable, and maintainable UI components and frontend architectures
- Set technical direction for CI/CD, observability, security, performance, and engineering standards
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical coaching; raise overall engineering quality
- Own operational excellence across services and UI applications: capacity planning, resiliency, release governance, and production readiness
- Partner with product, architecture, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure solutions meet enterprise requirements (security, scalability, performance)
- Drive continuous improvement in automation, testing strategy, developer experience, and reduction of defects and operational toil
- Acts as a multiplier: unblocks teams, drives alignment, and creates clarity in complex delivery contexts
- Strong stakeholder management and crisp communication for technical and non-technical audiences
- Sets a high bar for engineering rigor while maintaining a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset
- Typical Deliverables:
- Architecture decisions (ADRs), full-stack reference patterns, and service/UI design guidelines
- Cross-team delivery plans with clear dependencies and risk mitigation
- Production readiness standards and reliability improvements
- Measurable improvements in engineering quality, velocity, and system stability
- Success measures (example):
- Multiple blueprint-driven capabilities delivered predictably across teams
- Reduced operational toil and improved SLO attainment for owned services
- High engineering quality bar (review throughput, test coverage, design consistency)
- Clear technical direction adopted by teams; scalable patterns for agentic systems in production
Application process
- End Date: October 10, 2026
Our take
Mastercard is in the global payments business, and operates the world's fastest payments processing network. Its products and solutions have become central to everyday commerce across the world, in activities ranging from shopping and travelling to running businesses.
As the economy has become more and more digitized, Mastercard has been a leading player in helping businesses and individuals across the globe embrace card payments and digital banking. One of the world's largest companies, its revenue has seen consistent gain in the last 20 years.
The challenge for modern payments companies is that payments are always changing, as seen in the astronomical rise of contactless payments over the last decade. Mastercard's acquisition of blockchain systems, and an overall focus on leveraging its technology towards a digital economy, has placed the company in good stead to keep up to date with current trends, like cryptocurrency, in the digitized payments world.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
Leadership
Michael Miebach
(CEO)Michael has served in a variety of roles at the company, including President and CPO. They are currently a Board Member at IBM, Accion, the World Resources Institute, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, and the Metropolitan Opera. They are also a Trustee of USCIB.
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