Lead Software Engineer

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Pune, Maharashtra, IND
Hybrid
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We are a global technology company in the payments industry.
The Role
Leads development of secure, scalable payment network software and highly complex integrations. Ensures application quality, performance, and adherence to development standards; performs advanced coding, code reviews, and CI/CD delivery. Coaches junior engineers, evaluates development tools and vendors, researches emerging technologies, and provides technical guidance and stakeholder communications. The role focuses on high-volume, low-latency transaction systems, event-driven architectures, microservices, cloud-native platforms, and REST APIs.
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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.
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Lead Software Engineer
Job Description Summary
Job Summary:Providing Innovative, Secure, and Reliable Switching Solutions is the lifeblood of Mastercard Core Products, we are currently seeking a passionate, collaborative, and experienced software engineer to join the Payment Networks Team.
Are you a collaborator capable of communicating effectively with Business and IT stakeholders across all organizational levels?
Are you an innovator who embraces, adopts, and studies the latest technology to solve challenging business problems?
Are you a leader who inspires the team to think "out of the box" and effectively communicates across all levels of the organization?
If this describes you, Mastercard wants to talk to you about the creation of our new agile development team that will support Network Access solutions within the Payment Networks organization.
About the Role:- 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.
- Assists in vendor assessment and evaluates and recommends software development tools.
- Designs highly complex applications, interfaces and integration with a modest number of systems.
- Responsible for performance engineering of the enterprise software architecture, and providing functional guidance, advice, and/or training to other application developers.
- Group-wide and external public speaking and other communications conveying domain level directions
- Researching and evaluating tools to support domain-specific needs.
- Significant advanced code development, commitment of code/review of pull-requests, and modest day-to-day
support duties.
About You:- Engineering experience, preferably in high volume, low latency transaction processing systems (such as payments
transaction switching, high frequency trading systems or global real-time event streaming systems etc.)
- Experience with various coding languages Java, Go, C++,ESQL, etc.
- Delivered scalable products through a CI/CD pipeline deploying on-prem or in a public cloud infrastructure.
- Ensure quality across the full stack via rigorous CI/CD practices in all aspects of the SDLC (Builds, Test, and
Deploy).
- Strong writing and verbal communication skills
Preferred Skills:- Experienced in event driven systems (Apache Kafka, NATS, etc)
- Experienced in building platforms with Microservice architecture and RESTful APIs.
- Experience using cloud-native approaches running on Linux, leveraging Spring Boot
- Experience with virtualization like Cloud Foundry(PCF), Kubernetes (PKS), Docker etc.
- Experience in CI/CD pipeline creation via Jenkins
Education:
BS or MS in Computer Science
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

  • Engineering experience, preferably with high-volume, low-latency transaction processing systems
  • Experience with Java, Go, C++, ESQL, or similar programming languages
  • Experience delivering scalable products through CI/CD pipelines on-premises or in public cloud infrastructure
  • Experience ensuring software quality across build, test, and deployment stages of the SDLC
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science
  • Experience with event-driven systems such as Apache Kafka or NATS
  • Experience building microservice platforms and RESTful APIs
  • Experience with cloud-native approaches on Linux using Spring Boot
  • Experience with Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, or Docker
  • Experience creating CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins

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  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is described as substantial, with multiple leave types and generous vacation and personal days noted in U.S. materials. Feedback suggests time off is frequently praised as a differentiator.

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HQ: Purchase, NY
38,800 Employees
Year Founded: 1966

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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