Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack

Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and
power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe,
simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our
innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize
their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our
company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a
sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
If you're tired of the status quo and want to join a passionate team with limitless potential, keep reading
because we'd love to meet you. We have a position open in the MasterCard Digital Enablement Service
(MDES) Program. MDES is a set of services that support the generation, provisioning, management, and
transacting of digital payment credentials using mobile devices and servers to enable simple, fast, and
secure digital payments. What did that all mean? We deliver tokenized mobile transactions safe and
fast! Do you like to continuously show progress and learn about the world? Our program follows an
iterative approach to development with teams located globally.
Role
What's it all about and what we expect you to do day to day?
• Individual contributor with technical team leadership who is recognized as a departmental authority and technical expert within a discipline and drives innovation and organizational growth through their contributions. Spend their time in IDEs writing non-feature code; are hands all the time and collaborate by writing interfaces, tests (unit or acceptance) and architecture fitness functions, outside of meeting rooms. • Lead strategic technical direction for applications, architectures, and development processes.• Lead and push the boundaries of analytics and powerful, scalable applications• Act as a key contributor to product implementation while empowering your team• Build and maintain analytics and data models to enable performant and scalable products.• Champion innovation by exploring and adopting new technologies and methodologies.• Lead with an agile mindset, adapting to changes quickly and guiding your team to pivot when needed.• Coach, mentor, and develop a cross-functional engineering team to deliver high-quality solutions and well-tested code• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.• Collaborate across teams and business units to solve complex technical problems and ensure alignment.• Partner with Product Managers and Customer Experience Designers to define roadmaps, scope features, and plan releases.• Ensure projects meet customer demands while scaling platform solutions for future growth.
All About You
- 10+ years of full stack engineering experience in an agile production environment.
- Good knowledge on card domain.
- Proficient in facilitating AI coding tool for expedite development tasks.
- Experience leading the design and implementation of complex features in full-stack applications.
- Experience leading a large project and working with other developers.
- Strong technologist eager to learn new technologies and frameworks. The following is a plus:
- Proficiency with Angular, Java JDK 17, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Maven, Hibernate / JPA, REST, and SQL Server or other object-oriented languages, front-end frameworks, and/or relational database technologies.
- Solid experience with RESTful APIs and JSON/SOAP based API.
- Experience with SQL, Multi-threading, Message Queuing & Distributed Systems.
- Experience with Design Patterns.
- Expertise in Junit or other automated unit testing frameworks.Knowledge of Splunk or other alerting and monitoring solutions.
- Fluent in the use of Git, Jenkins.
- Knowledge of cloud native development such as cloud foundry, AWS, etc.
- Customer-centric development approach.
- Passion for analytical / quantitative problem solving.
- Ability to identify and implement improvements to team development processes.
- Strong collaboration skills with experience collaborating across many people, roles, and geographies.
- Motivation, creativity, self-direction, and desire to thrive on small project teams.
- Superior academic record with a degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.