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? We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results. 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.

As a Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard, you will be expected to: • Own complex problems with dependencies across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution. • Write code to build and enhance applications and services, while promoting code reviews, code scanning, and standard development practices to deliver high-quality artifacts to production. • Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at the service level to meet business requirements and enhancements. • Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in partnership with product stakeholders. • Identify opportunities and build roadmaps to enhance the primary service or function. • Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development, actively identifying opportunities to improve efficiency. • Drive seamless integration across connected services to meet end-user expectations. • Support operational readiness by designing for observability, reliability, and maintainability after deployment. [Lead SE Skills | Excel] • Drive a blameless postmortem culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings. • Introduce new technologies and architecture while following enterprise guidelines. • Advocate for engineering principles outside of the current organization or platform. • Provide development and architecture guidance to team members. • Build relationships and effective partnerships across organizations. • Write and evaluate recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of accomplishments. • Conduct technical interviews for engineering roles and help raise the performance bar. • Lead by example with hands-on approaches that demonstrate