# Lead Software Engineer

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Atlanta, Georgia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $140,000 - $231,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack to drive their customer experience strategy forward. The ideal candidate will be passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possess an entrepreneurial mindset.

**Responsibilities:**

- Provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering expertise in the design, development, and delivery of highly scalable, resilient, and secure full-stack applications.

- Own and influence end-to-end architecture and technical direction, driving the adoption of modern engineering practices, design patterns, and technologies.

- Lead the development of complex, high-impact solutions across the front-end and back-end, ensuring performance, scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability.

- Partner with Product, UX, Data & Analytics, DevOps/SRE, and other technology stakeholders to translate business objectives into innovative and sustainable technical solutions.

- Establish and champion engineering standards, development methodologies, code quality, testing, security, and operational best practices.

- Serve as a technical mentor and thought leader, coaching engineers, providing architectural guidance, conducting design and code reviews, and fostering a culture of engineering excellence.

- Drive technical initiatives and continuous improvement, proactively identifying opportunities to modernize platforms, improve engineering efficiency, and deliver measurable business and customer impact.

**Requirements:**

- Full-stack software engineering expertise with hands-on experience developing enterprise applications using Java/Spring Boot and/or Python/Django, as well as modern front-end technologies such as Angular, React, Next.js, and TypeScript.

- Strong software architecture and system design experience, including defining system boundaries, API contracts, data models, and non-functional requirements.

- Proven experience designing and delivering backend services and RESTful APIs, including authentication/authorization, business logic, data access, third-party integrations, API versioning, backward compatibility, and robust error handling.

- Strong knowledge of cloud and DevOps engineering practices, including Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Jenkins, CI/CD, and cloud-native application development and deployment using AWS and/or Azure.

- Experience driving engineering quality, performance, reliability, and security, including automated testing, code quality standards, observability, performance optimization, secure coding practices, and production readiness.

- Demonstrated technical leadership and mentoring experience, with the ability to influence architecture and engineering direction, establish development standards, coach engineers, lead technical discussions, and effectively communicate risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.

**Benefits:**

- Insurance (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

- 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
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Python
- Django
- Angular
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Git
- Jenkins
- AWS
- Azure

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