Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer – 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.

• Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions.
• Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices.
• Owns complex problems having dependencies across services and facilitates cross‑functional team interactions to drive resolution.
• Writes code to build and enhance applications/services and promotes code‑reviews, code scanning, and other standard development practices to deliver high‑quality artifacts to production.
• Defines, designs, and develops procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements.
• Drives prioritization decisions and trade‑offs in working with product partners.
• Identifies opportunities and builds roadmaps to enhance primary service/function.
• Automates and simplifies all aspects of software delivery and development, actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed.
• Drives seamless integration across all connected services to meet end‑user expectations.
• Drives blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings.
• Introduces new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines.
• Advocates for engineering principles outside of current organization/platform.
• Provides development and architecture guidance to team members.
• Builds relationships and effective partnerships across organizations.
• Writes and evaluates recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one's accomplishments.
• Conducts technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar.
• Leads by example with hands‑on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence.
• Encourages staff to share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity.

• Has ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, C, C++, SQL).
• Familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management.
• 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) 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 good customer 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, ephemerial 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…