Lead Software Engineer
Mastercard1 day ago
Base Salary
$140k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own backend and full-stack capabilities through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Design and build scalable services, APIs, workflow tooling, frontend experiences, and integrations.
- Set technical direction and make pragmatic architecture decisions.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on coaching.
- Build prototypes and use AI coding tools to improve engineering speed, quality, and effectiveness.
- Partner with product, engineering, and senior stakeholders to turn ambiguous goals into working software and measurable outcomes.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience building backend services, APIs, full-stack applications, or complex production systems.
- Experience owning technical areas end to end, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Strong fundamentals in software design, architecture, API design, data modeling, testing, code review, secure coding, performance, and troubleshooting.
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction through design reviews, code reviews, and clear communication.
- Experience in several relevant areas such as distributed systems, decisioning, real-time transaction processing, AI/ML systems, low-latency inference, LLM-enabled applications, or agentic harnesses.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Full-time employees generally receive medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance; flexible spending and health savings accounts; paid leaves; paid sick and safe time; vacation; personal days; paid holidays; 401(k) matching; fitness benefits; and potential tuition reimbursement.
- The posting states that Mastercard intends to fill the position by January 11, 2027, or as soon as possible if that date has passed.
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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).