# Lead Software Engineer - Java

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Oslo, Norway (haavard martinsens vei)
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and resilient technology that supports important payment services.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will combine hands-on development with technical leadership and work closely with teams across product, operations, architecture, infrastructure, risk, and customer-facing functions.

In Mastercard Payment Services, you will contribute to critical European payment clearing and settlement services. This includes real-time and batch clearing, instant payments, participant-facing services, liquidity and settlement capabilities, reporting, and related payment infrastructure.

**Responsibilities**

- Design, build, integrate, and improve secure, scalable applications and services.

- Take ownership of complex service issues and coordinate resolution across teams.

- Work with product partners and stakeholders on priorities, trade-offs, and technical roadmaps.

- Improve delivery quality through automation, code reviews, testing, scanning, and standard engineering practices.

- Use incident learnings to strengthen stability, resilience, and continuous improvement.

- Introduce new technologies and reusable patterns within enterprise guidelines.

**Leadership Responsibilities**

- Provide hands-on technical guidance on architecture, development, and engineering practices.

- Collaborate across teams, functions, and organisations to deliver shared outcomes.

- Encourage knowledge sharing, reusable patterns, and active engineering communities.

- Support fair, evidence-based hiring and promotion input when needed.

**Requirements**

- Strong experience designing, developing, integrating, testing, and maintaining production software systems.

- Good understanding of architecture patterns, system design, performance, resilience, and maintainability.

- Experience with secure coding, code quality, code reviews, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.

- Practical knowledge of automation, DevOps toolchains, cloud-native patterns, and service integration.

- Experience building testing into delivery, including unit, functional, integration, regression, performance, resilience, and acceptance testing.

- Ability to collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and influence engineering practices.

**Technical Experience**

- Core Java 8+, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Maven, Jenkins, Linux, Git, Oracle, and Docker.

- React JS is an advantage.

- Experience using AI-assisted tools to develop code is welcome.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- Hibernate
- Maven
- Jenkins
- Linux
- Git
- Oracle
- Docker

### Nice to have
- React JS

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