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
Lead Software Development 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.
Overview
Mastercard is looking for a talented Lead Software Development Engineer to join the Mastercard Foundry Research and Development team in our [LOCATION]. In this role you will be part of a highly agile team building exiting and innovative products delivered at scale to global markets.
Our team is built on a foundation of research and development, mining innovation internally, innovating new product lines with emerging technology, managing new products from inception to market validation and engaging strategically with start-ups to shape the future of commerce with and for our customers. At Mastercard you will help define the future of commerce globally.
This team will have a diverse focus both in terms of geography and variety of technology challenges driving hard to bring innovative payment solutions to market.
Role
This role involves working with a team of talented developers to develop high performance Java based solutions.
Responsible for the analysis, design, and development of software solutions
Contribute to the requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes, and best practices
Ensure quality of one or more application codebases and alignment with development standards
Applies technical capabilities within own discipline to coach and develop junior employees
Designs highly complex applications, interfaces and integrations
Integrates at an enterprise level using third-party middleware or messaging products, or by designing and implementing custom interfaces and mapping for those interfaces
Responsible for performance engineering of the enterprise software architecture, and providing functional guidance, advice, and/or training to other application developers
Software development, code reviews and day-to-day support duties
Group-wide and external public speaking and other communications conveying domain level directions
Researching and evaluating tools to support domain-specific needs
Skills
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Codex for requirements analysis, solution design, code generation, review, documentation, test automation, and troubleshooting.• Ability to configure reusable AI workflows using AGENTS.md, custom skills, sub-agents, prompt patterns, context management, and project-specific instructions.• Knowledge of agentic workflows, including multi-agent orchestration, tool integration, human-in-the-loop controls, LLM evaluation, guardrails, and responsible AI practices.• Ability to validate AI-generated outputs for correctness, security, quality, maintainability, compliance, and production readiness.• Experience integrating AI workflows into Git-based development, automated quality gates, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and cloud-native deployment.
Proficiency with Java JDK 17 or greater.
Knowledge of Tomcat, Spring, Spring Boot, Shell Scripting, JSON.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or other container orchestration solutions.
Expertise in Junit or other automated unit testing frameworks.
Knowledge of CI/CD principles and tools such as Jenkins, Gradle, Maven.
Knowledge of Source Control Management and working with code in a multi-developer
Experience with a UI framework such as Angular a plus
All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should:
Loves creating innovative solutions to problems in a collaborative fun environment
Advanced knowledge and understanding of modern software engineering concepts and methodologies
Passionate about software development and comfortable in a fluid environment
Passionate about code quality and coding best practices
Show initiative and demonstrate a willingness to take on challenging opportunities
Excellent communication (verbal and written) and strong collaboration skills
Must be driven, highly motivated and a strong team-player
Interested in mentoring and helping grow the skills of the next generation of software developers
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.