Lead Software Engineer
Mastercard · Posted Nov 4
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's Services - Portfolio Intelligence Program builds high-performance analytics platforms that help businesses worldwide unlock maximum value from their data. The next-generation platform integrates industry-leading analytics, advanced software architecture, and the latest web technologies, with teams collaborating across Pune, New York City, and Arlington. This Lead Software Engineer role drives architecture, design, and delivery of data-driven backend applications, mentors engineers, and partners with cross-functional global teams.
What you will do
- Drive technical leadership across the software development lifecycle, actively influencing architecture and design decisions, and unblocking teams to achieve their objectives efficiently.
- Mentor and develop engineers through structured technical guidance, code reviews, and leading design discussions, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.
- Articulate technical decisions, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment.
- Deliver high throughput and velocity without compromising engineering quality, acting as a force multiplier to enhance team productivity, execution speed, and technical outcomes through hands-on contribution and strategic leadership.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into robust, scalable software solutions.
- Champion best practices in software engineering, ensuring clean, maintainable code using object-oriented principles and modern frameworks.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in both development and production environments.
- Expected to act as a force multiplier, improving overall team productivity, execution speed, and technical outcomes through leadership and hands‑on contribution.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 10+ years of overall software engineering experience, with a demonstrable track record of technical growth, increasing ownership, and driving impactful outcomes.
- Proven capability to mentor and develop engineers, evidenced by successful technical guidance, effective code reviews, and facilitation of design discussions.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts, decisions, and trade-offs to diverse audiences.
- Demonstrated technical leadership in driving architecture and design decisions, influencing technical direction, and enabling team success.
- Strong experience in software development for data-driven backend applications, including database technologies such as Postgres, data modelling, and data architecture design.
- Expertise in Java and proficiency with frontend technologies like ReactJS.
- Advanced object-oriented programming skills, excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Preferred qualifications
- Leading the design and implementation of scalable, maintainable software systems in a collaborative environment.
- Managing and optimising CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
- Familiarity with testing RESTful APIs, load testing, and unit testing using modern tools.
- Experience working with global, cross-functional teams.
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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