# Lead Software Engineer

**Company**: Mastercard
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Arlington: 161,000 - 266,000 USD
Atlanta: 140,000 - 231,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

This is a hands-on Lead Engineer role focused on building backend and full-stack capabilities for Mastercard's next-generation Decision Management Platform.

You will own technical areas end to end, write code, shape architecture, mentor engineers, and turn ambiguous goals into reliable services, APIs, workflow tools, and user-facing experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own meaningful backend and full-stack capabilities from problem definition through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.

- Design and build scalable services, APIs, workflow tooling, frontend experiences, and integrations.

- Set technical direction, make pragmatic architecture decisions, and align engineers around maintainable solutions.

- Use design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on coaching to raise engineering quality and reduce complexity.

- Write code, build prototypes, and use AI coding tools to improve speed, quality, and team effectiveness.

- Work closely with product, engineering, and senior stakeholders to turn ambiguous goals into working software and measurable outcomes.

What We're Looking For:

- You lead through delivery. You have shipped meaningful backend, full-stack, or product-facing capabilities in complex production systems.

- You think end to end. You connect user experience, APIs, backend design, data flows, operations, and business outcomes.

- You influence by doing the work. You guide technical direction through judgment, clear communication, and hands-on credibility.

- You care about quality. Testing, observability, security, clean interfaces, and maintainability are part of how you build.

- You are adaptable. You are comfortable with ambiguity, changing priorities, and small, fast-moving teams.

Relevant Experience:

- Strong hands-on software engineering experience building backend services, APIs, full-stack applications, or complex production systems.

- Experience owning technical areas end to end, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.

- Strong fundamentals in software design, architecture, API design, data modeling, testing, code review, secure coding, performance, and troubleshooting.

- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction through design reviews, code reviews, and clear communication.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Benefits:

- 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

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- backend services
- API design
- service integration
- domain modeling
- full-stack applications
- workflow tooling
- dashboards
- authoring tools
- operational interfaces
- high-throughput systems
- low-latency systems
- event-driven systems
- distributed systems
- decisioning
- rules
- data platforms
- real-time transaction processing
- AI/ML systems
- low-latency inference
- LLM-enabled product experiences

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