Lead Software Engineer

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 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. The Role • Work as Development lead to deliver end-to-end product development for Transaction Stream payment networks. • Work on creating solutioning and designs for functional and performance requirements. • Full Stack Development using Microservices, Messaging/Event Driven Frameworks, CICD on a Cloud Native environment (Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AWS, EKS) • Ensure benchmarks are met on quality, performance, info security and other NFRs • Guide and mentor teams effectively as per needs. Train developers on the technologies needed. • Communicate effectively and coordinate with various global groups in MasterCard to ensure success of the projects, including Business Owners, Product Owners, Enterprise Architecture teams, Other product teams etc. • Lead various initiatives for improving automation, defect metrics and overall quality. Conduct various Proofs-of-concept as per technological and business needs • Take responsibility for deciding the relevant tools, technologies and patterns that need to be implemented for the service All About You • A strong hands-on technologist with very strong Object-Oriented Design and clean programming skills using the Java spring/spring boot frameworks and the SOLID design principles aimed at creating re-usable, scalable components • Passionate about emerging technologies and trends, especially Event Driven Architecture and modern caching/persistence mechanisms • Strong experience in Product Development using Digital Native Architecture, Spring Boot framework and Cloud technology (preferably Pivotal Cloud Foundry) in an Agile (SAFe) Development Environment • Ability to analyze, conceptualize and create cutting edge technical solutions based on the business needs • Extensive experience in the development of online, real time application features • Result Oriented Professional • Learn and promote adoption of AI tools and technologies and constant usage to improve productivity with accuracy and quality. • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills involving Business Owners, Architecture teams, Development/Test teams, Vendors etc. Ability to guide teams on technology. • Coordination and organization skills and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders and vendors across locations to ensure success of the project. • Strong understanding, inclination, and experience of working in an Agile (SaFe) environment 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.