About the position
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. As a Staff Software Engineer (Lead), you'll be the driving force behind the design, development, and delivery of robust, scalable, and high-performing software solutions. Your visionary leadership will shape our technical strategies, inspire our elite engineering team, and ensure the triumphant execution of pioneering projects. You will be an expert in both front-end and back-end technology stacks, working closely with enterprise architects and product management to define features and user stories.
Responsibilities
- Mastery in front-end and back-end technologies.
- Work closely with enterprise architects and product management to define features and user stories.
- Contribute to day-to-day system development and maintenance activities to meet service level agreements (SLAs).
- Create solutions with high levels of innovation, cost-effectiveness, quality, and faster time to market.
- Provide technical training to other team members.
- Actively seek opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.
- Support services in production.
- Ensure iterative delivery dates across a continuous development lifecycle are met, while identifying emerging issues.
Requirements
- Expertise in using front-end and back-end technologies such as React, Node, Ext, Java, Kotlin.
- Strong knowledge of Java, REST API, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Jenkins, Spring, Oracle, GIT, Microservices, Messaging Framework.
- Experience with Microservices, MicroFrontends and Cloud Native Architecture.
- Proven experience leading and mentoring other engineers in a technical capacity.
- Familiarity with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT).
- Track record of delivering major pieces of functionality on time and on budget.
- Ability to solve scale, resilience, security, and robustness problems.
- Experience with databases like Oracle/Postgres and NoSQL MongoDB.
- Knowledge of different SDLC practices (Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and their appropriate use cases.
- Proficiency in basic engineering principles for building and running mission-critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong relationship-building, collaborative, and organizational skills.
- Bachelor or Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
- Flexible spending account and health savings account
- Paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave)
- 10 annual paid sick days
- 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level
- 5 personal days
- 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
- Gender-inclusive benefits
