Lead Software Engineer
Mastercard · Posted Oct 7
Global technology company connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, and businesses through secure payment processing and digital commerce solutions
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About the role
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, and its Merchant Acceptance Program consists of products and solutions that aim to increase Mastercard's acceptance footprint and improve the cardholder experience at the point of interaction. The program's platform and services are built to operate at global scale and high transaction volume using cloud-native, microservices-based architecture with strong focus on performance, security, and reliability. This Lead Software Engineer (architect) role drives the overall architecture, designs enterprise-grade APIs and technical blueprints, and provides technical leadership and mentorship to development teams and service architects.
What you will do
- Drive the overall architecture using your deep expertise in microservices-based architectures for the fintech industry.
- Ensure that your solutions use modern cloud native architecture design principles.
- Design enterprise-grade APIs for services that follow Mastercard best-practices.
- Design and maintain technical blueprints and service descriptions for your solutions.
- Incorporate high-availability and system resiliency into your solutions to maximize up-time and capacity.
- Partner with senior technical and product leaders for the platform on how to deliver on your designs.
- Perform reviews to ensure teams are following your designs.
- Collaborate with the service architects, development teams, operations, and product owners.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams and service architects.
- Represent the program as the primary architect and technical advocate with other groups within Mastercard.
- Partner with the Architecture & Technology team to leverage best practices in global scale systems, including on-soil and cloud deployment scenarios.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- More than 12 years of rich product engineering experience designing scalable software solutions
- You have an exceptional foundation in Computer Science fundamentals, microservices-based software architecture and web applications.
- You have demonstrated experience architecting solutions based on containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies.
- Candidate should be good in system design.
- You have architected & designed high transaction volume, financial (banking, payment) systems that operate at global scale and extreme up-time requirements.
- You have experience with web technologies including HTML5, CSS, Javascript, and front-end frameworks such as Angular / React. Its not mandatory but nice to have
- You have extensive experience in designing and building global-scale, back-end micro services using Java, Spring, Spring Boot, messaging and persistence system.
- You have a deep understanding of storage technologies such as PostgreSQL or SQL Server, and how to effectively leverage them at massive scale.
- You have deep experience with cloud-native technologies and best practices, including Azure & AWS.
- You have experience with automated testing and successfully releasing software in a continuous delivery model using Git.
- You enjoy working in an Agile environment focused on continuous improvement.
- You have a strong desire to collaborate and provide mentorship to technology teams.
- You enjoy working with product leaders to inform and support options for delivering highly capable solutions that meet market demands.
- You desire to be hands-on building prototypes to solve complex business problems.
- You have excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical people.
- You are a relentless self-starter who works quickly and efficiently to support product and technical objectives.
- You advocate for what’s technically important and doing the right thing.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry that connects consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, and businesses worldwide. It operates a fast and secure payment processing network that spans more than 200 countries and territories. Through innovative products and solutions in credit, debit, digital assets, and security, Mastercard makes commerce safer, simpler, and more accessible.
- Industry
- Payments
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 1966
- Location
- Purchase, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $115M raised
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Business Officer
President & Chief Technology Officer
Chief People Officer
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