Lead Full-Stack Engineer — Enterprise & Cloud

Master Card; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Lead Software Engineer-Full Stack to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and solving problems. You will own end-to-end architecture and mentor engineers to deliver scalable, secure enterprise applications.

The role requires expertise in Java/Spring Boot or Python/Django, modern front-end tech, and cloud/DevOps practices. Location: Atlanta, United States.

Qualifications

• Full-stack software engineering expertise with hands‑on experience developing enterprise applications using Java/Spring Boot and/or Python/Django, as well as modern front‑end technologies such as Angular, React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
• Strong software architecture and system design experience, including defining system boundaries, API contracts, data models, and non‑functional requirements related to scalability, availability, performance, resilience, and security.
• Proven experience designing and delivering backend services and RESTful APIs, including authentication/authorization, business logic, data access, third‑party integrations, API versioning, backward compatibility, and robust error handling.
• Strong knowledge of cloud and DevOps engineering practices, including Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Jenkins, CI/CD, and cloud‑native application development and deployment using AWS and/or Azure.
• Experience driving engineering quality, performance, reliability, and security, including automated testing, code quality standards, observability, performance optimization, secure coding practices, and production readiness.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentoring experience, with the ability to influence architecture and engineering direction, establish development standards, coach engineers, lead technical discussions, and effectively communicate risks, trade‑offs, and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and hands‑on engineering expertise in the design, development, and delivery of highly scalable, resilient, and secure full-stack applications aligned with enterprise technology strategies.
• Own and influence end-to-end architecture and technical direction, driving the adoption of modern engineering practices, design patterns, and technologies across the application lifecycle.
• Lead the development of complex, high-impact solutions across the front‑end and back‑end, ensuring performance, scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Partner with Product, UX, Data & Analytics, DevOps/SRE, and other technology stakeholders to translate business objectives into innovative and sustainable technical solutions.
• Establish and champion engineering standards, development methodologies, code quality, testing, security, and operational best practices across the team and broader engineering organization.
• Serve as a technical mentor and thought leader, coaching engineers, providing architectural guidance, conducting design and code reviews, and fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
• Drive technical initiatives and continuous improvement, proactively identifying opportunities to modernize platforms, improve engineering efficiency, and deliver measurable business and customer impact.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Java/Spring Boot

Python/Django

Angular/React/Next.js/TypeScript

System design

RESTful APIs

Cloud & DevOps

Docker & Kubernetes

Git/Jenkins/CI/CD

Security & QA

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Jenkins

CI/CD

AWS

Azure

Job description

Mastercard is seeking a Lead Software Engineer-Full Stack to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and solving problems. You will own end-to-end architecture and mentor engineers to deliver scalable, secure enterprise applications.

The role requires expertise in Java/Spring Boot or Python/Django, modern front-end tech, and cloud/DevOps practices. Location: Atlanta, United States.