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Lead Software Engineer

$140k - $231k
Full-time

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

Overview:

Interested in building the next generation platform that empowers end-to-end marketing campaign management inclusive of audience targeting, campaign execution, and measurement? Our platforms operate at global scale, processing massive volumes of data and enabling data-driven marketing solutions across markets worldwide. The overarching goal of data-driven marketing is to deliver the right content, to the right person, at the right time.

We are growing rapidly in Atlanta, GA or Lisbon, Portugal. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about reimagining products, features, and services at scale while helping shape the future of digital marketing technology. If you wish to be part of this Priceless® experience, read below.

The Marketing Services (MS) Technology team is looking for a Lead Software Development Engineer (Technical Lead) to provide technical ownership, with an emphasis on engineering efficiency, on-time delivery, innovation, and an outstanding experience for our customers.

The ideal candidate is passionate about architecting and building highly available, large-scale platforms using modern engineering practices. You will work across technologies including Java, Spring Boot, React, GraphQL, Databricks, AWS, Spark, Hadoop, real-time data processing frameworks, and cloud-native architectures. Our teams leverage GenAI and Agentic AI capabilities throughout the product development lifecycle to accelerate delivery, improve quality, strengthen automation, and drive engineering effectiveness. This role provides an opportunity to lead innovative solutions while helping drive Mastercard's cloud transformation journey and the future of intelligent marketing platforms.

Role:

• Provide technical leadership for the design and development of new platform capabilities.
• Build and support distributed applications, REST APIs, and web services using Java, Spring Boot, and cloud-native technologies.
• Lead cross-functional teams of full stack, frontend, and data engineers.
• Design highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable platforms that support global marketing solutions.
• Partner with product, architecture, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives leveraging AWS, Databricks, and modern data architectures.
• Champion software quality, automation, observability, reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Promote adoption of GenAI, Agentic AI, and modern engineering practices across the development lifecycle.
• Support monitoring, troubleshooting, optimization, and continuous improvement of production platforms.

All About You:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with modern web technologies including React, Angular, Node.js, GraphQL, or similar frameworks.
• Experience with Databricks, Spark, Hadoop, Python, Scala, and cloud-based analytics platforms.
• Experience building real-time or near real-time data processing solutions.
• Strong understanding of Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Event Driven Architecture (EDA).
• Experience with automated testing frameworks including JUnit, Mockito, and BDD methodologies.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, automated deployments, and DevOps practices.
• Experience architecting and delivering cloud-native solutions on AWS.
• Proven track record building highly available, scalable, resilient, and high-performance platforms.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and reliability engineering practices.
• Experience using GenAI and AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and software quality.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and drive innovation.
• Passion for cloud transformation, platform modernization, and emerging technologies.
• Strong leadership mindset with a bias for action and continuous improvement.

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 View email address on us.fitly.work 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

Atlanta, Georgia: $140,000 - $231,000 USD

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