Lead Software Engineer
Mastercard · Posted Oct 12
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
The Business Experimentation and Optimization (BE&O) teams within Mastercard's Services organization build industry-leading software that empowers business users around the world to make data-driven decisions through advanced analytics and experimentation, and are modernizing toward scalable, cloud-native solutions. The platform leverages data technologies such as Databricks, Spark/PySpark and cloud platforms including AWS and Azure. This Lead Software Engineer role drives the architecture, design, and hands-on development of the next-generation experimentation platform, guides cross-functional and globally distributed teams, and mentors engineers.
What you will do
- Lead the technical design and delivery of complex, data-intensive software solutions that enable advanced analytics, experimentation, and data-driven decisioning for Mastercard clients.
- Define and drive technical strategy for modernization initiatives, including evolution of legacy systems toward scalable, cloud-native, API-driven, and service-oriented architectures.
- Lead system design across multiple levels of detail, including platform architecture, high-level design, detailed technical design, integration patterns, non-functional requirements, and implementation approach.
- Serve as a hands-on technical contributor, designing, coding, testing, debugging, and delivering production-quality software across the full engineering lifecycle.
- Build and evolve scalable services, APIs, data pipelines, and analytical capabilities using modern engineering practices, cloud platforms, and data technologies such as AWS, Azure, Databricks, Spark/PySpark, and related frameworks.
- Partner closely with product managers, engineering teams, architects, data scientists, QA, security, and operations teams to translate business and functional requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Coordinate and lead technical execution across globally distributed engineering teams, ensuring alignment across regions, time zones, dependencies, design decisions, and delivery milestones.
- Drive architecture and design reviews, code reviews, technical decision-making, and engineering tradeoff discussions to ensure solutions are secure, resilient, observable, performant, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
- Identify opportunities to improve platform scalability, reliability, developer productivity, operational readiness, and speed of delivery through modernization, automation, reusable patterns, and engineering best practices.
- Provide technical mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers through design guidance, code review, pairing, knowledge sharing, and modeling strong engineering judgment.
- Navigate ambiguity in complex initiatives by clarifying technical direction, decomposing large problems, identifying risks, and driving alignment across stakeholders.
- Champion a culture of engineering excellence, continuous improvement, ownership, collaboration, and high-quality delivery across the team and partner organizations.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering scalable, high-performance, and reliable software in an agile environment.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and building distributed systems, microservices, RESTful APIs, and cloud-native applications.
- Strong experience with data-intensive applications and analytics platforms; experience with Databricks, Spark, or PySpark is highly desirable.
- Proven expertise leading system architecture, high-level design, detailed design, and end-to-end technical delivery of complex software solutions.
- Experience driving technology modernization initiatives, including cloud adoption, platform transformation, and modernization of legacy applications.
- Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure, CI/CD, containerization, Kubernetes, observability, and modern software delivery practices.
- Demonstrated technical leadership as an individual contributor, influencing architecture decisions, driving technical strategy, and leading large cross-team initiatives.
- Ability to translate business and product requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a proven ability to work effectively across engineering, product, architecture, data science, QA, and operations teams.
- Experience leading and coordinating technical initiatives across globally distributed teams spanning multiple regions and time zones.
- Passion for mentoring and developing engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to work through ambiguity, make sound technical decisions, and drive results through hands-on execution.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field; advanced degree is a plus.
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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