# Lead Software Engineer

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: O'Fallon, Missouri
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $140,000 - $231,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer with strong experience in Golang to work within the Next Edge program at Mastercard. The Next Edge program is developing Mastercard's next-generation edge platform with programmatic interfaces for data transport.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead the design, development, and evolution of Mastercard's next-generation edge platform and backend services.

- Drive architecture decisions and establish engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across the team.

- Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, and Operations teams to define technical strategy and roadmaps.

- Lead complex technical initiatives from conception through production deployment.

- Mentor and coach engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance.

- Identify and resolve system bottlenecks, reliability risks, and scalability challenges.

- Champion engineering excellence through Test-Driven Development, automation, CI/CD, and observability practices.

- Define and enforce testing strategies including unit, functional, integration, and end-to-end testing to ensure high-quality software delivery.

- Participate in production support, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts.

- Apply and champion secure coding standards, threat modeling, vulnerability remediation, and security-by-design principles throughout the software development lifecycle.

- Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, concurrency patterns, and distributed computing principles used in high-performance systems.

- Influence cross-team technical alignment and drive adoption of platform capabilities across the organization.

- Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and talent development activities.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS, or equivalent practical experience.

- 8+ years of software engineering experience with expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and distributed systems.

- Strong experience with Golang and cloud-native application development.

- Experience designing and operating highly available, scalable, and resilient platforms.

- Strong knowledge of event-driven architectures, APIs, messaging systems, and networked applications.

- Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and DevSecOps practices.

- Proficiency with GitHub, Jenkins, and modern software delivery tooling.

**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, pro-rated based on date of hire

- 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
- Golang
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Microservices
- distributed systems
- Kubernetes
- containerization
- cloud platforms
- CI/CD pipelines
- infrastructure automation
- DevSecOps practices
- GitHub
- Jenkins

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