Mastercard

Lead Software Engineer

Mastercard
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2 days ago
Arlington, VA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$161k - $266k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, and deliver software components and product capabilities.
  • Contribute to solution design and technical implementation plans.
  • Identify technical risks, raise issues early, and validate implementation approaches.
  • Build and integrate applications, interfaces, data pipelines, and services.
  • Develop scalable and maintainable solutions across cloud, data, and enterprise platforms.
  • Participate in code reviews, troubleshooting, testing, documentation, and production-readiness activities.
  • Collaborate with product, design, data, architecture, and engineering stakeholders.
  • Share technical knowledge and contribute to the engineering culture.

Requirements

  • Strong experience designing, developing, testing, and delivering software products and applications.
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Azure, or similar cloud platforms.
  • Experience with big data ecosystems and enterprise-scale data or AI applications, such as Hadoop, Spark, or Kafka.
  • Working knowledge of AI/ML, data analytics, and data product development, including data quality, privacy, and localization.
  • Proficiency with Java, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, Postgres, object-oriented programming, front-end frameworks, and database technologies.
  • Ability to translate business and product needs into practical technical implementations.
  • Strong verbal and written communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Ability to work independently, escalate blockers, and deliver high-quality work in an agile environment.

Benefits

  • Full-time employees generally receive medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
  • Benefits include flexible spending and health savings accounts, paid leaves, 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 vacation days, personal days, and 10 U.S. observed holidays.
  • Benefits include a 401k with company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, and potential tuition reimbursement.
  • The position is listed for Arlington, Virginia, with Mastercard intending to fill it by January 21, 2027, or as soon as possible if that date has passed.

Tech Stack

Apache HadoopApache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzureDatabricksJavaPostgreSQLReactSnowflakeSpring BootTypeScript

Categories

Mastercard

About Mastercard

10,000+ employees

Mastercard builds and operates a global payments network used by banks, merchants, fintechs, and governments, offering card processing, real-time payments, tokenization, and fraud/risk services. It generates revenue from transaction processing and assessment/service fees across more than 200 countries and territories. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Purchase, New York, Mastercard is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: MA).

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