Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

Who is Mastercard?

• Lead the architecture, design and development of software systems and applications. These solutions & software targeted towards a clients’ specific needs or create products geared for Mastercard.


• Act as senior most engineers in the team to determine everything from design choices to technical standards, such as platforms and coding standards.


• Collaborate to product teams to understand the requirements, identify solution, propose ideas and provide technical thought leadership.


• Evaluate build vs buy solutions, partners with fintechs and startups to create innovative solution


• Document the overall systems/application architecture, help create high level design and provide guidance to the engineering team on low level design


• Domain driven design is your game. Code to enforce the contextual mappings and aggregates for each bounded context. Drive implementation of consumer driven contracts to allow for evolution and learning of the domain model with hyper speed while meeting our promises to other teams internally and customers alike.


• You are polyglot engineering guru, you bring cutting edge engineering practices to life in multiple evolving frameworks – Feature flags, fitness functions and whatever is required to reduce the cost and increase the lifecycle value of next feature delivered by engineering teams.


• You love declarative paradigm and functional programming. No one can stop you in paying off technical debt and refactoring the code for better SDLC, performance and availability.


• You implement, monitor and maintain compliance and security concerns in CI/CD pipelines to bring life to the principle of “Code is Design and Design is Code”.

• Tech lead on software development projects, especially at early stage (concept, PoC, Prototype, Pilot)


• Create a team of engineers suitable for the scope of the project, assigning tasks, working with scrum lead to create timeline, provide estimates and acting as engg lead in operating/steering committee


• Engage with partner organization in ensuring that proposed solution meets the corporate standards in creating & operating the applications


• Act as lead in bringing multiple engineering team to achieve the overall objective of the proposed solution

• Build relationships with technical peers across organization with a focus on our Enterprise Architecture (EA) relationship; socialising new technologies with EA and bringing EA technology and updates back to the group.


• Maintain common tech stack & integration components. Design a tech stack and blueprints for simplified transitions. Align coding conventions with EA


• Develop and maintain common tools and services for use by the global engineering teams.


• Work with Information security, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, internal tech partners, external tech partners to help design our infrastructure/cloud environments and a secure application architecture


• Provide updates and technical talks about new technologies, bring in domain expertise to business, market direction around technical innovation for Cross Border to the global XBS engineering teams.

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.