Lead Software Engineer

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
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.
All About You
- The ideal candidate has an enthusiasm for finding elegant solutions to complex problems and identifying process improvements to increase efficiency.
- Experience in delivering secure, maintainable, scalable and complex application solutions in a SAFe/Agile process.
- Full Stack developer with strong Java development/architecture experience.
- - Experience with responsive design, working with RESTful APIs and JSON.
- Knowledge/experience using cloud native development such as PCF, Azure, etc.
- Experience in Spring framework, Maven, Kafka, Database Design, SQL.
- Working Knowledge of tools like Sonar, Dynatrace, GIT, ALM, CI (Jenkins)/CD, Splunk.
- Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written - and strong relationship, collaboration and organizational skills.
- Ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies, frameworks and tools and support multiple concurrent activities and to interface with external / internal resources.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities without compromising the processes.
- Result oriented, self-driven and go-getter abilities.
Responsibilities:
- Design secure, reliable, and scalable solutions for globally distributed payment systems
- Identify, plan and drive the enablers / Non Functional requirements for the systems
- Support development teams and work with stakeholders using the Scaled Agile Framework
- Create a culture of technical excellence and ceaseless improvement
- Act as a spokesperson for technical designs and future directions of the platform
- Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives for the business needs using current and upcoming technologies and frameworks
- Identify and resolve any dependencies early so that team can concentrate on delivery
- Ownership of documentation, ensure knowledge and information is not lost
- Identify bottlenecks in time-to-market; create and implement improvement efforts
- Identify areas of improvements, introduce and champion best practice (continuous improvement)
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- Thorough knowledge and experience applying software engineering concepts and methodologies
- A high degree of initiative and self-motivation with a willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities
- Experience designing, developing, and deploying Java webservices using a mix of relational and non-relational persistence
- Strong communication skills to effectively communicate complicated subjects to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Successfully led small to large-scale software testing across multiple technologies and groups
- Demonstrated expertise in reviewing BDD/TDD practices, analyses, test frameworks, and management tools
- Experience leading cross-browser and cross-device testing strategies
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with great attention to detail, critical thinking.
- Solid oral and written communication skills
- Able to mentor peers and guide less experienced Team members
Nice to have
- Familiarity with the payments industry and payment processing
- Experience designing for standard and regulatory compliance (e.g., PCI-DSS, GDPR, etc.)
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $138,000 - $221,000 USD