Lead Software Engineer, Mastercard
Distributed Microservices Platform
Office located in Mountain View, Dublin
Global payments technology company
Open for applications
Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Office located in Mountain View, Dublin
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
- Strong backend engineering background (8+ years) with experience across system design and delivery
- Experience working with both monolithic and microservices-based systems
- Proven ability to lead technical delivery in complex, distributed environments
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills across multiple system layers
- Ability to balance technical leadership, hands-on contribution, and team enablement
- Experience building or operating highly available, resilient systems
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, resilience patterns, and modernization strategies
Desirable
- Experience in financial services or high-availability platforms
- Experience operating in governed or regulated delivery environments
- Exposure to AI-assisted engineering and intelligent automation, including use of tools or agents to enhance development workflows, testing, or operational efficiency
What the job involves
- This role combines technical leadership, system design, and practical engineering contribution. You will guide the technical direction of the team while staying close to implementation—supporting delivery, resolving complex issues, and ensuring high-quality outcomes
- You will be part of the Virtual Card Management domain within CTMC, working on platforms that enable card controls, transaction flows, and commercial payment capabilities at scale
- The role operates across a mixed architecture landscape—both monolithic applications and modern microservices—with a strong focus on platform resilience, reliability, and safe evolution while continuing to deliver business-critical features
- Lead delivery of backend services and applications using Java / Spring Boot
- Contribute to system design, implementation, and technical problem-solving
- Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and resilient
- Use AI-assisted development and automation tools to improve productivity and code quality
- Guide features through design, development, testing, release, and production support
- Drive high standards across code quality, testing, deployments, and operational readiness
- Identify and mitigate delivery, stability, and dependency risks
- Evolve system architecture across monolith and microservices environments
- Define APIs, integration patterns, and event-driven/data flow designs
- Drive modernization while maintaining platform stability and availability
- Embed resilience patterns such as fault tolerance, graceful degradation, and safe rollouts
- Production reliability
- Act as an escalation point for technical issues and incidents
- Lead root cause analysis and implement long-term fixes
- Improve reliability through observability, refactoring, and operational best practices
- Cross-team collaboration & engineering standards
- Collaborate across teams to align delivery and integrations
- Clarify ownership across shared services and legacy systems
- Set engineering standards and provide technical guidance through design, code, and test reviews
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
Leadership
Michael Miebach
(CEO)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.
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