Lead Software Development Engineer – Technical Advisor

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 Development Engineer – Technical Advisor

Help us achieve our goal of becoming the leading global provider of customer acquisition and engagement services within payments! Mastercard is looking for a Senior/Lead Software Engineer – Technical Advisor to join our Marketing Services Technology team to drive the future of Marketing Services as a tech-driven, full-service performance marketing agency. This role supports global media initiatives including next-gen digital diagnostics, MarTech, Ad insight and sales acceleration solutions, the application of agentic AI, and integrations across the CA&E program. You will leverage your experience in these areas or comparable knowledge to help advise, design, implement, and optimize marketing technology solutions that enable data-driven execution. Your work will play a key role in supporting business growth and improving results for financial institutions, merchants, or acquiring customers. The role bridges consulting, marketing strategy and technical execution, ensuring seamless integration of data, platforms and tools across the marketing ecosystem.

Role - As part of a collaborative team, you will:

Work with cross-program Product and Tech teams to identify functional and system requirements to support the development of tools and platforms that improve media performance and automate processes for complex, multi-channel marketing campaigns. Specific examples of partners include product managers and vendors, full stack and data engineers, architects, and UI developers.

Provide technical leadership and expertise for architecting new platform capabilities to build highly available, large-scale and fault-tolerant platforms.

Advise on short- and long-term use cases and interoperability for 3rd party software and tools, giving our clients diverse tools to manage and analyze digital advertising.

Be responsible for assessing technologies and approaches for integrating backend data services with user interfaces.

Design & develop REST APIs and web services using Java, Spring Boot and other emerging technologies.

Familiar with Mastercard technical review processes and tools.

Understand complex application data flows and bridge the gap between technical and business requirements.

All About You

The ideal candidate for this position is expected to:

Be skilled at architecting large and complex distributed platforms and confident in communicating solutions to a wide variety of stakeholders.

Have strong digital marketing automation, data flows, marketing technology (MarTech), or AdTech consulting experience or product ownership; Or, related engineering experience designed for payments or other financial services sectors.

Have excellent tech consulting, oral and written communication skills.

Be hands-on with Java, Spring Boot and Microservices (REST API).

Familiar with Mastercard technical review processes such as SoAR, E&AR, and BizOps Third Party reviews, and Mastercard security and privacy standards.

Familiar with Modern Web Development in React and/or Angular (2+), NodeJS, GraphQL etc.

Familiar with Big Data / Analytics technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Python, Scala.

Experience working with real-time or near real-time data ingestion.

Understand procedures for onboarding applications to Mastercard portals like MCC and MBI and possess knowledge of FSSO configuration.

Familiar with processes for setting up domains for vendor-hosted solutions. Knowledge of Mastercard tools such as API Gateway, NGFT, and File Transfer Services is advantageous.

Understand Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Event Driven design (EDD).

Build and govern automated quality framework based on JUnit and Mockito and have a solid understanding of BDD testing framework.

Understand CI/CD using tools like Jenkins.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Marketing technology, MBA with media specialization or comparable experience.

Passionate about customer-centric design and delivering impactful, scalable solutions.

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.