Lead Software Engineer
Mastercard2 days ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and delivery of complex, data-intensive software for analytics, experimentation, and data-driven decisioning.
- Define modernization strategy and evolve legacy systems toward scalable, cloud-native, API-driven, service-oriented architectures.
- Lead platform architecture, high-level and detailed technical design, integration patterns, non-functional requirements, and implementation planning.
- Design, code, test, debug, and deliver production-quality software across the full engineering lifecycle.
- Build scalable services, APIs, data pipelines, and analytical capabilities using AWS, Azure, Databricks, Spark/PySpark, and related frameworks.
- Coordinate technical execution across globally distributed engineering teams and align dependencies, decisions, and delivery milestones.
- Drive architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, technical decisions, and engineering tradeoff discussions.
- Improve scalability, reliability, developer productivity, operational readiness, and delivery speed through modernization and automation.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through design guidance, code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
- Partner with product, engineering, architecture, data science, QA, security, and operations teams to deliver robust technical solutions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience delivering scalable, high-performance, and reliable software.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and building distributed systems, microservices, RESTful APIs, and cloud-native applications.
- Experience with data-intensive applications and analytics platforms; Databricks, Spark, PySpark, and ML experience are highly desirable.
- Proven expertise leading system architecture, detailed design, and end-to-end technical delivery of complex software solutions.
- Experience with technology modernization, cloud adoption, platform transformation, and legacy application modernization.
- Hands-on experience with Java or Python, AWS and/or Azure, containerization, Kubernetes, observability, and modern software delivery practices.
- Demonstrated individual-contributor technical leadership, including influencing architecture decisions and leading large cross-team initiatives.
- Ability to translate business and product requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.
- Experience coordinating technical initiatives across globally distributed teams and multiple time zones.
- Strong collaboration, communication, problem-solving, mentoring, and decision-making skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field required; an advanced degree is a plus.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Mastercard
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).