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Lead Software Engineer

Mastercard Pune, India senior full-time

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Description

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our team at Mastercard in Pune, India.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will design and code a variety of applications covering transaction processing, analytics, user interfaces, and APIs using a blend of cutting-edge technologies across big data, distributed systems, machine learning, and more.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Owning complex problems with dependency across services and facilitating cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution
  • Driving prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners
  • Automating and simplifying all aspects of software delivery and development
  • Introducing new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines
  • Providing development and architecture guidance to team members

You will also be expected to:

  • Write secure code and have hands-on experience with Java, Spring
  • Have hands-on experience with AI-based development, GitHub Copilot, Claude code
  • Have hands-on experience with messaging systems like Kafka, event-driven architecture
  • Be familiar with secure coding standards and vulnerability management
  • Understand and implement Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloguing
  • Have skills to elaborate and estimate non-functional requirements, including security, regulatory, and performance
  • Be able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors
  • Have skills to conduct product demos and coordinate with product owners to drive product acceptance signoffs
  • Drive operational excellence by suggesting improvements to product modules/features using test data, performance data, and production metrics

We offer a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results.

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