Lead Software Engineer-1

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-1

Overview
The Mastercard Business Intelligence Application Development Team builds innovative solutions that position Mastercard as a leader in delivering advanced analytics and reporting capabilities to a global customer base. We collaborate closely with product partners and technical teams to enhance existing products and launch new solutions worldwide.
We are seeking a highly skilled professionals who will:
• Support architecture and design for development projects, production issues, and maintenance, ensuring quality across internal teams and vendors.
• Provide detailed cost and time estimates, define technical scope and requirements, and assist project managers in managing scope throughout the project lifecycle.

Role
As part of Mastercard’s Payment performance Intelligence Program, you will develop and Lead full-stack Java applications with React or Angular as the frontend.

Key Responsibilities
• Design and implement software aligned with Mastercard’s Enterprise Architecture and services.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code that meets business needs and adheres to timelines.
• Ensure system design supports zero downtime in production.
• Collaborate with business partners on product definition, roadmaps, and business cases.
• Address operational and business concerns to ensure consistent delivery of quality services.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (Quality, Product, Engineering).
• Lead highly focussed team of engineers with an eye on innovation.

All About You
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written skills to interact across multiple organisational levels.
• Technical Expertise:
• Proficient in Java 17+, Spring Stack, Hibernate, and databases (Oracle, SQL Server, Redis, MongoDB, Postgres, Elastic Search).
• Proficiency in building and leading application on micro service based architecture
• Experience of in working on messaging Frameworks like Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS or any other cloud native solutions.
• Frontend experience with React JS (16+) or Angular (14+).
• API development using OpenAPI specification.
• Strong knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, Node.js, and UNIX shell scripting, Python , Groovy scripting
• Tools & Methodologies:
• Build tools: Gradle/Maven; Automation: Chef/Ansible.
• CI/CD: Jenkins, SonarQube; Agile methodologies.
• Infrastructure:
• Public Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Exposure to Monitoring tools like Splunk, ELK stack is desirable.
• Bonus Skills:
• Diverse experience of working in multiple languages (Scala, C#, Python etc)
• Experience with workflow automation tools (Netflix Conductor, Apache Airflow, Camunda, N8N).
• OpenTelemetry skills will be an extra plus
• Familiarity with rules engines (Drools, EasyRules).
• Soft Skills:
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• High-energy, detail-oriented, proactive, and able to work independently under pressure.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building 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.