Lead Software Engineer, Mastercard
$166-265k
Global payments technology company
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Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$166-265k
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
- Has the ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., C, C+, C#, Java, JavaScript) and familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerabilities
- Has skills in building applications using open frameworks to achieve reuse and reduce development times (e.g., Spring Boot, Steeltoe, Angular, DXP, others)
- Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to write interoperable and performant code
- Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors
- Has skills to document and coach team on the development practices and coding guidelines (e.g., branching, peer reviews, library use, logging, scanning rules, test-driven development, error handling)
- Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading, all from the gang of four) to implement efficient code
- Has skills to undertake a technical review of code across applications and their dependencies to look for anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring
- Understands and elaborates technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritization discussions with stakeholders to improve the run experience
- Understands system architecture to plan for platform and infrastructure capacity (e.g., database, compute, network, storage) and drives the dependency prioritization to reduce the delivery lead time
- Has skills to understand customer journeys and ensure a Mastercard good experience by continuously reducing Mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for incidents and ensuring high availability (99.95% as a starting point)
- Has skills to simplify deployment and eliminate software and infrastructure snowflakes using standardized platforms, ephemeral instances, and automation
- Has skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD using industry-standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, AWS/Azure pipelines, XL Release, others)
- Able to configure rules and build automation for code with vulnerability scanning and software composition analysis using standard tools (e.g., Sonar, Checkmarx, Nexus, JFrog XRay, Veracode, others)
- Has skills to define, organize, and report on test runs for major, minor, and hotfix releases (including unit, component level, system level, customer journeys, past customer issues, and regulatory controls)
- Has skills to conduct various performance tests (e.g., load, spike, breakpoint, endurance) to Understands application/service limits and behaviors
What the job involves
- As a lead software engineer at mastercard, you are expected to perform following responsibilities:
- Own complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution
- Write code to build and enhance applications/services and promote code-reviews, code scanning, and other standard development practices to deliver high-quality artifacts to production
- Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements
- Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners
- Identify opportunities and build roadmaps to enhance primary service/function
- Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed
- Drive seamless integration across all connected services to meet end-user expectations
- Drive blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings
- Introduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines
- Advocate for engineering principles outside of current organization/platform
- Provide development and architecture guidance to team members
- Build relationships and effective partnerships across organizations
- Write and evaluate 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
- Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence
- Encourage staff to share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity
Application process
- End Date: November 12, 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.
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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