Mastercard is at the forefront of powering global economies, enabling progress in over 200 countries and territories. Our mission is to build a sustainable economy where everyone thrives, facilitated by secure, simple, smart, and accessible digital payment solutions. Through cutting-edge technology, strategic partnerships, and extensive networks, we deliver a unique suite of products and services that unlock the greatest potential for individuals, businesses, and governments.

Join Mastercard's Software Builders Experience (MSBX) team, a vital part of Team ONE (Operations, Network, and Employee Digital Experience). We empower over 6000 engineers globally by cultivating an exceptional developer experience. Our focus is on creating innovative payment solutions that serve hundreds of millions of customers. We achieve this by building and managing comprehensive services and tooling for cloud-agnostic infrastructure provisioning, standard CI/CD pipelines, developer environments, and application frameworks.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will collaborate with a team of skilled developers to architect and implement high-performance, high-volume solutions.

Key responsibilities include: - Designing and developing microservice capabilities using Java, Go, or Python. - Building secure, scalable, and maintainable software solutions adhering to best practices. - Implementing automated testing, code quality checks, delivery pipelines, and monitoring. - Mentoring junior and senior engineers through technical guidance, documentation, and code reviews. - Partnering with Architects, Leads, Developers, and Product Owners to deliver timely business value. - Championing Mastercard's Engineering Principles, Builders' Enablement standards, and Corporate Security guidelines. - Serving as a Subject Matter Expert for initiatives aimed at creating an efficient and secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). - Contributing to a cross-functional, geographically distributed team to enhance the developer experience. - Ensuring developer experience remains central to all our initiatives. - Upholding adherence to Mastercard's Engineering Principles, Development Standards, and Security Guidelines. - Actively participating in the Software Engineering Guild to share knowledge and best practices.

We are seeking a proficient engineer with a strong foundation in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD), specifically with Java JDK 8 or higher. Proficiency in Go and/or Python is highly advantageous.

Essential technical skills include: - Familiarity with Tomcat, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate, and REST microservices architecture. - Experience with SQL, multi-threading, message queuing, and distributed systems. - Solid understanding of design patterns and enterprise integration patterns. - Proven experience with one or more cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP), including a strong grasp of availability zones, regions, security, cloud APIs, and virtual networking. - Expertise in JUnit or similar automated unit testing frameworks. - Knowledge of monitoring solutions like Splunk, Dynatrace, or Prometheus. - Fluency in Git and Jenkins. - Ability to define and implement best practices for Continuous Delivery/Deployment pipelines. - Good working knowledge of container technologies. - Experience in regulated environments with secure software development practices (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR). - Familiarity with performance testing tools such as JMeter or Gatling. - Experience building upon and contributing to innersource projects (e.g., CI/CD, shared libraries). - Demonstrated experience automating processes to boost developer efficiency. - DevSecOps, CI/CD, and Site Reliability Engineering experience for distributed systems is a significant plus.

We also require candidates to be self-motivated team players operating effectively in a high-performance environment. A Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field is expected.