Lead Software Engineer

Mastercard; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard in Pune, India seeks a software engineer to design secure, scalable solutions for customer-facing products and mentor junior team members.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, promote agile practices, work with Java web services, and leverage UI frameworks like React or Angular, with emphasis on data processing and DWH concepts.

Knowledge of cloud and DevOps (PCF), CI/CD tools, and strong communication is required; experience with APIs and testing tools is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or MIS with equivalent work experience.
• Strong knowledge of software engineering concepts and methodologies.
• Initiative and self-motivation with willingness to learn and take on challenging opportunities.
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying Java web services using relational and non-relational persistence.
• Strong communication skills to explain technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with DWH concepts and large data processing tools.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, reliable, and scalable solutions for globally distributed customer facing products.
• Lead/mentor junior team members and drive feature delivery per roadmap.
• Support development teams and promote Agile development practices with stakeholders.
• Engage with Mastercard Architecture & Technology teams to align on technical strategies.
• Define, plan, and support execution of technology strategy for Operational Insights products.
• Research and evaluate technical solution alternatives using current and upcoming technologies.

Skills

React/Angular

API design

Java web services

Cloud & DevOps

DWH concepts

SQL

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/MIS

Tools

Eclipse/IntelliJ

Sonar

GIT

Maven

SQL Developer

Jenkins

CI/CD

Gatling

Job description

• 1. Design secure, reliable, and scalable solutions for globally distributed customer facing products.
• 2. Lead/mentor junior team members in learning new development skills and lead overall delivery/feature execution as per roadmap.
• 3. Support development teams and work with stakeholders, promoting agile development
• 4. Knowledge of DWH concepts, strong DB/SQL skills and experience in large data processing is desirable.
• 5. Define, plan, and support execution of the technology strategy for Operational insights products
• 6. Engage with wider Mastercard Architecture & Technology teams to ensure alignment on the wider technical strategies and policies within Mastercard
• 7. Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives for the business needs using current and upcoming technologies and frameworks

Technologies: -

• 3. UI/UX frameworks and best practices (React, Angular)
• 4. API tooling and design best practices
• 5. Cloud and DevOps Architecture, especially via Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• 7. Tools - Eclipse or IntelliJ, Sonar, GIT, Maven, SQL Developer, Jenkins, CI/CD, Gatling

All About You

• 1. Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or Management Information Systems and equivalent work experience
• 2. Thorough knowledge and experience applying software engineering concepts and methodologies
• 3. A high degree of initiative and self-motivation with a willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities
• 4. Experience designing, developing, and deploying Java webservices using a mix of relational and non-relational persistence
• 5. Strong communication skills to effectively communicate complicated subjects to both technical and non-technical audiences
• 6. Experience and knowledgeable in DWH concepts, large data processing tools etc.

Beneficial Experience: -

• 1. Familiarity with the payments industry, payment processing, reporting and data & analytics domain
• 2. Experience designing for standard and regulatory compliance (e.g., PCI-DSS, GDPR, etc.)
• 3. Familiarity with agile development practices, in particular Scaled Agile Framework
• 4. Exposure to trending technologies(AI/ML, IOT, Bot, Quantum Computing) and architectures is very good to have
• 5. Exposure to coding agents GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code to the list and agentic stack- crewAi, n8n etc and QA automation frameworks like Selenium , Microsoft Playwright is a big plus