Lead Software Engineer, Mastercard
Cross Border Payments Engineering
Global payments technology company
Posted today
Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Posted today
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
- Expert in building highly resilient & scalable distributed systems. Has deep exposure to various database, messaging & caching technologies
- Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages, secure coding standards and vulnerability management
- Has an expert understanding and experience of DevOps best practices to guide developers and abstract application development from underlying hosting platforms and infrastructure. Infrastructure as code and cloud-first software development knowledge experience preferred
- Experienced in the skills required to implement advanced test setups in production environments
- Experience in Continuous Integration and Delivery concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization
- Understands internals of operating systems to write interoperable and performant code
- Has skills to develop and evangelize on reference architecture and run principles to help teams adopt Engineering Principles from the start
- Understands use cases for advanced design patterns to implement efficient code
- Understands and implements Application Programming Interface standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization
- Has skills to promote and coach teams on taking on full-stack development and facilitate end-to-end service ownership
- Has skills to engage engineers across the Technology organization to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services
- Has experience in leading and coaching teams to perform software planning and estimation for large-scale complex programs
- Has skills to drive trade-off discussions to set the right development capacity based on value drivers
- Has experience in design and execution of automation across multiple business areas and provides guidance on best methods and tools
What the job involves
- The Applications team was created to establish Mastercard as the frontrunner in the fast-evolving real-time payments space, and to position MasterCard to be able to incubate the development of new payment flows. The team is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard’s next generation payment applications – Domestic, Cross Border and Bill Payments
- The Mastercard Cross Border platform and services enable secure, near real-time payment transfers to and from billions of card, bank and digital accounts globally. Program Participants (banks, businesses, digital players and more) can modernize the way they send money cross-border, making funds available to recipients almost instantly. Mastercard Cross Border is proven to increase user spend and engagement, strengthening core business performance
- Technology leader who is hands-on & can lead a team of engineers. Expected to spend 80% of time coding/on code-related activities, and 20% coaching engineers on the team. This person is recognized as a team’s authority and technical expert who drives innovation and organizational growth through their contributions
- They get their adrenaline rush by coding away in IDEs. They spend most of their time in writing non-feature code, and also expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes and AWS. They collaborate by writing interfaces, tests (unit or acceptance) and architecture fitness functions, outside of meeting rooms
- They implement, monitor and maintain compliance and security concerns in CI/CD pipelines to bring life to the principle of “Code is Design and Design is Code.”
- Domain-driven design is their game. They code to enforce the contextual mappings and aggregates for each bounded context. They drive implementation of consumer-driven contracts to allow for evolution and learning of the domain model with hyper speed while meeting our promises to other teams internally and customers alike
- They are polyglot engineering gurus, bringing cutting-edge engineering practices to life in multiple evolving frameworks – Feature flags, fitness functions and whatever is required to reduce the cost and increase the lifecycle value of the next feature delivered by engineering teams
- They love the declarative paradigm and functional programming. No one can stop them from paying off technical debt and refactoring the code for better SDLC, performance, and availability
- Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drive resolution
- Work with business/product owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles
- Participate and contribute to the team’s agile process and decisions. Understand and contribute to prioritization. Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners
- Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies
- Take ownership to improve the customer experience of an entire set of services/applications sold as products or bundled services
- Contribute and lead Guild initiatives by engaging and mentoring Engineers at all levels to improve the craftsmanship of Software Engineering
- Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy
- Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests
- Venture beyond comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of Software Engineering
- Take on organization-wide and public speaking engagements and publish white papers and blogs on relevant and emerging technical topics
- Consult across teams and across organizational lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities
- Participate and contribute to Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs
- Write recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one's accomplishments
- Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar
- Identify and raise awareness of siloed behaviors within the organization and teams
Application process
- End Date: May 5, 2025
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 digitised, 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 digitised payments world.
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Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Trust - integrity, respect, openness
- Agility - urgency and value through innovation
- Partnership - working as one team for the benefit of all
- Initiative - taking bold and thoughtful actions
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
Articles
Leadership
Michael Miebach
(CEO, not founder)Has served in a variety of roles at the company, including President and CPO. Currently 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.
People progressing
Joined as VP in 2008, promoted 4 times in 11 years to their current position of Executive Vice President.
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