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 Overview: At Mastercard, our industry expertise is enhanced by our commitment to being a force for good in the world and to doing well by doing good. Mastercard relies on our global workforce to help us achieve our goal of building a sustainable, inclusive global economy. The Mastercard Way encourages us, connects us with the behaviors that represent the essence of not only what we do but who we are as an organization. Cultivating an environment for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views and experiences drives a global and collaborative culture of inclusion and sense of belonging. MasterCard software engineering teams leverage Agile development principles, advanced development and design practices, and an obsession over security, reliability, and performance to deliver solutions that delight our customers. The Account Level Management (ALM) program at Mastercard delivers core platform capabilities that enable issuers to configure and manage account-level controls, credential behavior, and transaction experiences—supporting scalable, flexible payment products across global markets. MasterCard is recruiting a Lead, Software Development Engineering to develop advanced technologies and applications that are revolutionizing payments. - Are you passionate about software engineering? - Do you enjoy seeing the impact your code has on a wide range of customers across the globe? - Do you want to work for a company that offers above and beyond benefits including paid parental leave, flexible work hours, gift matching, and even volunteer incentives while encouraging your own professional learning and development? - Do you thrive in a place where you are continuously learning more while growing your skills and career? - Do you want to join a Company that offers a competitive benefits-and rewards program that attracts, develops and retains the most talented employees around the world? - Do you want to join an inclusive culture where employees, in all their diversity, feel valued, respected and who can bring their authentic selves to work? Learn more at Mastercard’s Corporate Sustainability Report. Key Requirements: • Own complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution • Write code to build and enhance applications/services and promote code-reviews, code scanning, and other standard development practices to deliver high-quality artifacts to production. • Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements • Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners • Identify opportunities and build roadmaps to enhance primary service/function • Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed. • Drive seamless integration across all connected services to meet end-user expectations • Drive blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings • Introduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines • Advocate for engineering principles outside of current organization/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 one's accomplishments • Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar • Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence •Encourage staff to share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity All About You: • Degree in Computer Science or related field • Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures and core computer science concepts. • Evidence of working with object-oriented development and Deep understanding of commonly accepted architecture solution approaches design patterns. • Proficiency in multiple modern programming languages such as Java, Python, Ruby, Angular, Scala, etc. • Proficiency with cloud technologies (IaaS, PaaS, serverless technology, NoSQL databases), micro-service design, CI/CD, DevOps • Experience designing scalable fault tolerant platforms that are resilient to infrastructure failures • Experience with the strangulation pattern and anti-corruption layers to migrate monolithic systems into independent services • Experience with application penetrating testing & troubleshooting, performance/load/stress testing & troubleshooting is strongly desirable • Experience working in an Agile environment. • Strong inter-personal skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment with cross-functional teams and select third parties, be a true team player • Be able to work under pressure and multi-task while remaining professional and courteous • Open minded, flexible, and willing to listen to other people’s opinions, actively participating in the discussions and generating ideas and solution options • Strong written and verbal English communications skills. • Strong analytical and excellent problem-solving skills 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 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. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations. Pay Ranges O'Fallon, Missouri: $140,000 - $231,000 USD