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