Lead Software Engineer
Mastercard1 day ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and delivery of complex, data-intensive software for analytics, experimentation, and data-driven decision-making.
- Define technical strategy for cloud adoption, platform transformation, and modernization of legacy systems.
- Design scalable services, APIs, data pipelines, and analytical capabilities across the full software development lifecycle.
- Drive architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, technical decisions, and engineering tradeoff discussions.
- Coordinate technical execution across globally distributed teams, regions, time zones, dependencies, and delivery milestones.
- Improve platform scalability, reliability, developer productivity, operational readiness, automation, and delivery speed.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through design guidance, code review, 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 distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native applications.
- Experience with data-intensive applications and analytics platforms; Databricks, Spark, or PySpark experience is highly desirable.
- Proven expertise in system architecture, high-level and detailed design, and end-to-end technical delivery.
- Experience leading technology modernization, cloud adoption, platform transformation, and legacy application modernization initiatives.
- Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure, containerization, Kubernetes, observability, and modern software delivery practices.
- Demonstrated individual-contributor technical leadership, including architecture influence, technical strategy, and 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.
- Strong collaboration, communication, problem-solving, decision-making, and ambiguity-navigation skills.
- Passion for mentoring and developing engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field; 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).