Lead Software Engineer

Mastercard; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the Builders’ Enablement Program. The role involves developing high-performance solutions in Java, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring the team adheres to best practices. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software development, cloud technologies, and security practices, as well as a strong capability to enhance the developer experience within a high-performance team.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in OOP/OOAD with Java JDK 8 or higher.
• Experience in Kubernetes, Cloud platforms, and DevSecOps practices.
• Fluent in Git and Jenkins with a regulated environment background.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement microservice capabilities in Java.
• Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Ensure adherence to Mastercard Engineering Principles and Corporate Security guidelines.

Skills

Java

OOP/OOAD

Kubernetes

REST

SQL

DevSecOps

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or Computer Science

Tools

Git

Jenkins

JUnit

Job description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build asustainableeconomy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactionssecure, 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.

Title and Summary

Lead Software Engineer Overview

The Mastercard Builders’ Enablement Program has an exciting opportunity for a Lead Software Engineer. We are part of Mastercard’s Team ONE (Operations, Network and Employee Digital Experience) empowering 6000+ Engineers around the globe. We are responsible for creating a great developer experience enabling engineering teams to deliver innovative payment solutions for hundreds of millions of customers.

Our services enable Mastercard engineering teams to focus on delivering business value from ideation to market. The ideal candidate will help Mastercard developers efficiently build, test, and deliver secure, quality code.

Role

This role involves working with a team of talented developers to develop high performance, high volume solutions. You will be responsible for:

• Design and implement microservice capabilities in Java
• Develop high-quality, secure, scalable and maintainable software solutions.
• Apply best practices for automated testing, automated code quality, automated delivery & automated monitoring.
• Mentor the junior engineers on your team through sound technical advice, UML documentation & code reviews
• Collaborate with Leads, Developers & Product Owners to ensure business value is delivered in a timely manner
• Work as part of a cross-functional and geographically distributed team to make our developer experience awesome
• Ensure that Developer Experience is central to everything we do
• Ensure that the team adheres to Mastercard Engineering Principles, Builders Enablement Development standards, and Corporate Security guidelines
• Actively participate as a member of the Software Engineering Guild sharing your knowledge, best practices, ideas, and passion for technology

Skills

• 10+ years experience in OOP/OOAD with Java JDK 8 or higher. Experience with Go is a plus
• Knowledge of Tomcat, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate, REST microservices architecture
• Experience with Kubernetes and container technologies
• Experience with Design Patterns and Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Experience with SQL, Multi-threading, Message Queuing & Distributed Systems
• Experience with one or more Cloud platforms with a good working knowledge of availability zones, regions, security, Cloud APIs, virtual networking, and the capabilities and offerings of the various providers (e.g., Azure, AWS, and GCP)
• Expertise in Junit or other automated unit testing frameworks
• Knowledge of Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus or other alerting and monitoring solutions
• Fluent in the use of Git, Jenkins
• Experience working in a regulated environment with secure software development practices (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR)
• Experience in performance testing with JMeter, Gatling and similar tools
• Experience with building upon and contributing to innersource projects (e.g. CI/CD, Shared libraries)
• Experience automating processes to improve developer efficiency
• DevSecOps/CI-CD, Site Reliability experience for distributed systems is an advantage

In addition

• Must be self-motivated and a team-player operating in a high performance environment

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Electrical or an equivalent Engineering stream

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.