Lead Software Engineer
Mastercard1 day ago
Base Salary
$140k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set engineering quality standards, drive architectural decisions, and provide hands-on technical guidance to engineers.
- Design, build, and maintain core Developer Workbench platform components across the full development lifecycle.
- Lead the technical direction and roadmap for the Developer Workbench and guide collaborative technical decision-making.
- Integrate and govern developer tools, including lifecycle management, evaluations, and deprecation of redundant solutions.
- Partner with product owners, platform teams, security, compliance, and engineering stakeholders on platform priorities and requirements.
- Design and deliver developer enablement features such as onboarding flows, self-service tooling, and feedback integrations.
- Architect pre-provisioned development environments that enable new hires to become productive within 30 minutes.
- Advance AI-augmented development capabilities, including agentic coding tools, code assistants, and automated quality pipelines.
- Define instrumentation and metrics for developer productivity, satisfaction, tool adoption, onboarding time, and platform health.
- Contribute to the Software Engineering Guild by sharing technical expertise, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards.
Requirements
- Proven track record as a technical leader among peers through code reviews, design feedback, pairing, and shared ownership.
- Strong software engineering background with hands-on experience in platform engineering, developer tooling, or enterprise-scale developer experience products.
- Ability to decompose complex technical problems, communicate tradeoffs, and build shared understanding across engineering teams.
- Familiarity with AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code; containerization and development environments including Docker Desktop, Kubernetes, and DevContainers; CI/CD tools including GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD; and developer portals such as Backstage.
- Experience with AI-powered developer tools in regulated enterprise environments, including policy compliance, access controls, and responsible AI usage.
- Experience designing and delivering standardized, pre-provisioned development environments at scale.
- Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, GCP, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native development patterns.
- Experience using instrumentation, metrics, and feedback mechanisms to guide technical decisions and adoption.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including facilitating technical alignment with non-engineering stakeholders.
- Fluency with software development productivity metrics such as DORA metrics, onboarding time, and tool adoption rates.
- Strong command of Agile/Scrum methodologies and SDLC best practices.
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous, fast-evolving technology environments.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary of $140,000-$231,000 for the O'Fallon, Missouri location, with potential annual bonus or commissions depending on the role.
- Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
- Flexible spending account and health savings account.
- Paid leaves including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave.
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 vacation days, 5 personal days, and 10 annual paid U.S. holidays.
- 401k with company match and deferred compensation for eligible roles.
- Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities.
- Eligibility for tuition reimbursement.
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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).