Lead Software Engineer, Mastercard
CA$127-203k
3 days a week in office
Global payments technology company
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Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$127-203k
3 days a week in office
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 expertise in Java, Spring, gRPC, and backend service development
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), Kubernetes, and container orchestration
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS) and migration strategies
- Proven ability to lead design discussions, review code, and enforce engineering standards
- Experience mentoring engineers and managing technical forums
- Knowledge of AI model deployment, automation frameworks, and streaming architectures
- Familiarity with IBM ODM, Kafka, and distributed systems
- Exposure to microservices, Docker, and cloud-native patterns
- Ownership & Accountability: Drives outcomes and sets technical direction
- Collaboration: Works effectively across global teams and stakeholders
- Leadership: Inspires and mentors engineers, promotes technical rigor
- Adaptability: Thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments
What the job involves
- The AI & Decision Engineering Platform powers intelligent, real-time decisioning for Mastercard’s fraud prevention and identity validation solutions
- This program enables streaming analytics, governed decision-making, and outcome management with business agility at global scale
- Our platform leverages business rules engines, AI-driven decisioning, streaming big data clusters, in-memory data grids, APIs, and intuitive UIs to deliver decisions in milliseconds across billions of transactions worldwide
- As a Lead Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in driving technical excellence across multiple projects, mentoring engineers, and shaping the architecture for next generation decisioning capabilities
- You’ll lead design discussions, enforce coding standards, and ensure automation and scalability are at the core of every solution
- Develop backend services using Java, leveraging frameworks like Spring and gRPC for high-performance applications
- Own AI model deployment pipelines, focusing on automation for deployment and validation in production environments
- Drive design discussions and technical forums, propose alternatives, and ensure optimal architecture and coding standards
- Manage Kubernetes clusters, oversee containerized workloads, and support cloud migration (AWS) from on-prem environments
- Mentor and coach engineers, fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement within a team of 8–9 developers and cross-functional stakeholders
- Review code and designs, enforce best practices, and ensure delivery of secure, maintainable, and high-quality solutions
- Collaborate across teams, manage multiple projects, and steer technical training and knowledge-sharing initiatives
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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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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