# Lead Software Engineer

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Pune, India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to lead software engineering projects and create the development and delivery of enhanced software solutions. The successful candidate will research alternative technical solutions for changing business needs, assure daily activities of the team meet SLA requirements, and collaborate with business and technical partners.

Responsibilities:

- Lead major projects and complex assignments with broad scope and long-term business implications

- Create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market

- Lead day to day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs)

- Collaborate with business and technical partners to identify and scope opportunities, outline potential value and ROI, identify risks, benefits and constraints

- Develop overall strategic technical plan and create architecture proposals based on identified solution gaps

- Make presentations to Management, Business Owners and other Stakeholders

- Assist in examining commercially available and forthcoming industry technologies related to area of expertise

- Research on current and upcoming technologies and application appropriate frameworks and provide recommendations to Management

- Perform PoCs (Proof of Concept) and help Department in the selection of Technology

- Proactively create and maintain solution and technology road maps

Requirements:

- Ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., C, C+, C#, Java, JavaScript)

- Familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerabilities

- Skills in building applications using open frameworks to achieve reuse and reduce development times (e.g., Spring Boot, Angular, DXP)

- Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to write interoperable and performant code

- Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors

- Skills to document and coach team on the development practices and coding guidelines

- Understands use cases for advanced design patterns to implement efficient code

- Skills to undertake a technical review of code across applications and their dependencies to look for anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring

- Understands and elaborates technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritization discussions with stakeholders to improve the run experience

- Understands system architecture to plan for platform and infrastructure capacity

- Drives the dependency prioritization to reduce the delivery lead time

- Has skills to understand customer journeys and ensure a Mastercard good experience by continuously reducing Mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for incidents and ensuring high availability

- Has skills to simplify deployment and eliminate software and infrastructure snowflakes using standardized platforms, ephemeral instances, and automation

- Has skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD using industry-standard tools

- Able to configure rules and build automation for code with vulnerability scanning and software composition analysis using standard tools

- Has skills to define, organize, and report on test runs for major, minor, and hotfix releases

- Has skills to conduct various performance tests (e.g., load, spike, breakpoint, endurance)

- Actively integrates generative AI tools into day-to-day development workflows , leveraging AI-assisted code generation and code review to accelerate delivery while maintaining quality and security standards

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C+
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Spring Boot
- Angular
- DXP
- OWASP
- CWE
- SEI CERT

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