Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Development Engineer

Mastercard’s Commercial Solutions team is a rapidly growing organization with responsibilities to deliver innovative solutions to help our customers grow and expand their business. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this dynamic team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. We are seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer to lead a cross-functional development team within the Commercial Solutions organization.

Role:

• Build performant, scalable and secure web applications.
• Provide leadership, guidance and direction on systems and web application architecture and system design.
• Guide and coach less experienced engineers.
• Focus on user-centered design.
• Spearhead design, technical and code reviews.
• Implement coding standards and approaches.
• Promote an Agile approach to software development. Insist on a culture of continuous integration and delivery, automation and minimizing blast radius.
• Collaborate with teams across the organization to mitigate risk and resolve dependencies.

All About You:

• Successfully designed and developed externally facing web applications utilizing modern single page application frameworks. Angular and React JS experience preferred.
• Deep understanding of JavaScript and its benefits and quirks.
• Proven experience building ADA and WCAG compliant web applications.
• Successfully designed and developed cloud ready REST APIs utilizing industry best practices.
• Deep understanding of Cloud Architecture and its benefits and quirks.
• Deep understanding of Messaging frameworks and event-based architecture and its benefits and quirks.
• Possess an understanding of multi-tier web development; including knowledge of server-side technologies and databases.
• Understanding of web application optimizations such as progressive web apps, web workers, browser repaints and reflows, performance and memory optimizations, debugging memory leaks, caching, flame graphs.
• Experience and knowledge of authentication and authorization workflows using concepts like JWT.
• Have proficiency in Quality engineering and experience working with Quality leads to define processes and technologies.
• Passion for improving code quality using approaches such as unit and end to end testing.
• Deep knowledge of Continuous Integration and Delivery and toolsets that provide this ability.
• Understanding of agile principles and methodologies and experience implementing and adapting them to fit the team’s needs.
• Use and understand Git based source control systems.

Required Skills:

Basic Qualification: Additional Skills: I can't stress enough. Please read the BELOW 4 days a week on-site and must relocate. Open to H1B/visa transfers and H4 EAD who are local to MO. GC and USC is also fine but they should be local and not out of state.