Mastercard

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

Technology at Mastercard

What we create today will define tomorrow. Revolutionary technologies that reshape the digital economy to be more connected and inclusive than ever before. Safer, faster, more sustainable.

And we need the best people to do it. Technologists who are energized by the challenges of a truly global network. With the talent and vision to create the critical systems and products that power global commerce and connect people everywhere to the vital goods and services they need every day.

Working at Mastercard means being part of a unique culture. Inclusive and diverse, a rich collaboration of ideas and perspectives. A place that celebrates your strengths, values your experiences, and offers you the flexibility to shape a career across disciplines and continents. And the opportunity to work alongside experts and leaders at every level of the business, improving what exists, and inventing what’s next.

Overview

This position is a member of the STRM - Security Threat and Response Management team which is responsible for Vulnerability Management, security monitoring and response functions for Mastercard, accounting for both physical and cyber security events. This team leads with the mission to provide overall stewardship of enterprise-grade application architecture & design within the context of holistic software development. This includes driving the architecture & design decisions and building consensus around it and supporting existing enterprise-level applications. The team leads the Security implementation related to customer access, employee access, and exploration of software architecture & technology innovations along with enabling excellence in the overall team.

• Design secure, reliable, and scalable solutions for globally distributed customer facing products.
• Collaborate closely with the global Solution Architecture & Engineering team to define principles and best practices
• Engage with wider Mastercard Architecture & Technology teams to ensure alignment on the wider technical strategies and policies within Mastercard
• Support development teams and work with stakeholders, promoting agile development
• Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives for the business needs using current and upcoming technologies and frameworks
• They are hands on all the time and collaborate by writing interfaces, tests; unit or acceptance and architecture fitness functions, outside of meeting rooms.
• Work with business/product owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles
• Participate and contribute to team’s agile process and decisions. Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners
• Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies
• Contribute and lead Squad initiatives by engaging and mentoring Engineers at all levels to improve the craftmanship of Software Engineering
• Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy
• Consult across teams and across organization lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities
• Participate and contribute to Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs
• Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar

Technologies: -

1. Java, J2EE, micro services, RESTful APIs, Angular, Web Services, JavaScript, Docker

2. Framework - Spring -Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Batch, Spring REST, Spring Cloud, AOP, Hibernate

3. UI/UX frameworks and best practices -React, Angular.

4. API tooling and design best practices

5. Cloud and DevOps Architecture, especially via Pivotal Cloud Foundry

6. Databases – Oracle, SQL server, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, ElasticSearch

7. Tools - Eclipse or IntelliJ, Sonar, GIT, Maven, SQL Developer, Jenkins, CI/CD, Gatling. Experience with Software Vulnerabilities tools SCA/SAST/DAST will be plus.

About You

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in software development languages, including but not limited to Java and Java-based frameworks (Spring, Spring Boot), React or Angular, and JSON.
• Demonstrated expertise in containerization, container orchestration, microservices, REST services, and cloud technologies, preferably Azure or AWS.
• Strong understanding of technology selection, system architecture, and full-stack development principles.
• Proven ability to deliver large-scale, complex software programs with measurable business impact.
• Skilled in performing code reviews, conducting troubleshooting and debugging, executing root cause analysis (RCA), and resolving coding errors.
• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines to streamline development and deployment processes, docker containers & Kubernetes to Cloud platforms.
• Adept at mentoring developers and coaching teams on best practices, coding standards, and development methodologies.
• Exceptional analytical, presentation, and problem-solving skills to address challenges effectively.
• Strong communication abilities to collaborate across teams and articulate complex ideas clearly.
• Experience in coding Microservices in Java, building UI/UX, frameworks such as React, Angular, spring boot, RDBMS, Oracle and event driven architecture.
• Knowledge with Pivotal Cloud Foundry or any other cloud platform AWS or Azure or GCP is preferred.
• Has experience designing and implementing solutions focusing on the non-functional concerns – Performance, Scalability, Availability, Extensibility, Supportability, Usability
• Operate with urgency, fairness and decency to address challenges and solve for new opportunities.
• Capable of working under pressure – navigating complex initiatives, competing priorities and customer requirements.
• Familiar with cutting edge industry trends and thorough understanding of development methodologies and standards.
• Ability to manage objectives and pipelines, build business cases, define success metrics and interpret P&L to optimize the business.
• Has skills to promote and coach teams on take on full stack development and facilitate end-to-end service ownership, Has skills to engage engineers across Technology organization to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services.
• Has skills to drive trade-off discussions to set right development capacity based on value drivers e.g., regulatory, security, new business, market parity, technical debt

Has experience in design and execution of automation across multiple business areas and provides guidance on best methods and tools.

• Has skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders.
• Experienced in agile and modern SDLC practices: Scrum/Kanban/Continuous Delivery/DevOps/Quality engineering, and the delivery situations they are used for

Corporate Security Responsibility

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 reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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 based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. 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 new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 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, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $138,000 - $221,000 USD