Lead Software Engineer - Java/Python/Go
Mastercard4 hours ago
Dublin, IrelandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead modernization of fraud rules and engine platforms, including large-scale migrations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify requirements, solutions, and architectural direction.
- Ensure implementations align with architecture, standards, policies, security, compliance, and business needs.
- Lead early-stage software development projects, including proofs of concept and pilots.
- Scope, size, prioritize, plan, and estimate projects.
- Mentor development teams and promote engineering best practices.
- Build and operate scalable, global, high-throughput and low-latency platforms with five-nines availability.
- Design, implement, document, and improve secure distributed systems, including performance tuning, failure design, and automation.
Requirements
- At least eight years of software development and software or microservices architecture experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology or computer science, or extensive work experience.
- Ability to write high-quality, secure code in multiple languages, including Java, Python, and Go.
- Expert knowledge of software development processes and experience with at least one application lifecycle management tool.
- Experience with fraud-rule engines, large-scale migrations, scalable distributed systems, relational and NoSQL databases, and loosely coupled stateless systems.
- Hands-on experience with design patterns, multiple programming languages and frameworks, declarative paradigms, and functional programming.
- Familiarity with generative AI and LLM technologies relevant to fraud rules, DevOps and IT operations practices, and application and system security.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, talent development, communication, decision-making, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Financial-domain experience is required or emphasized, with banking-domain experience preferred.
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).