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We are a global technology company in the payments industry.
The Role
Lead a distributed agile team to design, build, and maintain high-performance, high-volume Java applications for virtual commercial payments. Define features with product and technical leads, ensure SLAs, implement REST/SOAP APIs, adopt cloud-native practices, mentor engineers, and drive process and quality improvements.
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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
Overview
In Control For Commercial Payments is a system within the Smart Data Commercial Platform. We allow issuing banks to provide Virtual Card solutions for their Commercial customers by provisioning and reporting through our 3 channels of API/Batch/UI. Focused on secure, highly available and innovative solutions, this dynamic team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base.
We are seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer to work with our cross-functional development teams.
Role:• Proactive Lead Software Development Engineer for a world class distributed agile
development team in the commercial virtual payments space.• Work with a team of talented engineers to develop high performance, high volume Java
applications. • Work closely with technical leads and product management technical to help define features
and user stories.• Contribute to day to day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet
service level agreements (SLAs) and help create solutions with high level of innovation, cost
effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market. • Provide technical training to the other team members.• Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.
All About You• Considerate, polite, fun-loving, collaborative.• Experienced developer with strong Java development experience with Spring/Hibernate• Proven experience building world class solutions on a global scale.• Experience working in an agile environment and actively contributing to discussions at
retrospectives/elaboration sessions.• Strong understanding of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies is required. • Solid experience with RESTful APIs and JSON/SOAP based API with Java.• Knowledge of cloud native development such as cloud foundry, AWS, etc.• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and have the ability to function under pressure
in an independent environment.• A high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results. • Possesses strong communication skills -- both verbal and written - and strong relationship,
collaborative skills and organizational skills. • Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or
Engineering or equivalent work experience.
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:
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
Overview
In Control For Commercial Payments is a system within the Smart Data Commercial Platform. We allow issuing banks to provide Virtual Card solutions for their Commercial customers by provisioning and reporting through our 3 channels of API/Batch/UI. Focused on secure, highly available and innovative solutions, this dynamic team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base.
We are seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer to work with our cross-functional development teams.
Role:• Proactive Lead Software Development Engineer for a world class distributed agile
development team in the commercial virtual payments space.• Work with a team of talented engineers to develop high performance, high volume Java
applications. • Work closely with technical leads and product management technical to help define features
and user stories.• Contribute to day to day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet
service level agreements (SLAs) and help create solutions with high level of innovation, cost
effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market. • Provide technical training to the other team members.• Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.
All About You• Considerate, polite, fun-loving, collaborative.• Experienced developer with strong Java development experience with Spring/Hibernate• Proven experience building world class solutions on a global scale.• Experience working in an agile environment and actively contributing to discussions at
retrospectives/elaboration sessions.• Strong understanding of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies is required. • Solid experience with RESTful APIs and JSON/SOAP based API with Java.• Knowledge of cloud native development such as cloud foundry, AWS, etc.• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and have the ability to function under pressure
in an independent environment.• A high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results. • Possesses strong communication skills -- both verbal and written - and strong relationship,
collaborative skills and organizational skills. • Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or
Engineering or equivalent work experience.
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.
Skills Required
- Strong Java development experience with Spring and Hibernate
- Proven experience building high-performance, high-volume Java applications
- Solid experience with RESTful APIs and JSON/SOAP based APIs using Java
- Experience working in an agile development environment
- Knowledge of cloud-native development (Cloud Foundry, AWS)
- Strong understanding of software engineering concepts and methodologies
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Strong verbal and written communication, collaboration, and organizational skills
What the Team is Saying
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Mastercard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Careers materials and job postings advertise a “best‑in‑class” 10% retirement match (401k or equivalent). Public-facing benefits pages consistently position this as a standout element of the U.S. package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Recent U.S. postings list 25 vacation days, 5 personal days, 10 paid holidays, up to 20 days of bereavement, and 80 hours of sick/safe time. The combined time‑off framework is described as well above typical U.S. baselines.
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Parental & Family Support — Company materials specify a minimum of 16 weeks paid new‑parent leave and inclusive family‑building support, with financial assistance for adoption, fertility, and surrogacy where allowed. Impact/ESG reporting also notes coverage enhancements for gender‑affirming care in North America.
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The Company
What We Do
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re building a resilient 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.
Why Work With Us
We live the Mastercard Way: creating value in the communities we touch, growing together through the opportunities we see, and moving fast to innovate and scale. Our collaborative culture and our passionate people are the key to what we do, driving meaningful change as one team and connecting everyone to priceless possibilities.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
In our ongoing workplace evolution, we’ve introduced hybrid work, Work-From-Elsewhere Weeks and Meeting-Free Days.
Typical time on-site:
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