Our Purpose
We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Job Title
Lead Software Engineer
Role
As a Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard, we need you to:
Drive problem resolution of complex problems, that have dependencies across multiple services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions
Write code to build new and enhance existing applications and also lead code-reviews, code scanning, and other standard development practices to deliver high-quality artifacts to production
Define, design, and develop solutions at a service level to meet business requirements
Help the team with the data needed to drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs
Lead blameless postmortems in the team to identify the root causes of incidents and implement learnings
Mentor team members and build effective partnerships across organizations
Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar
Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence
All About You
You write secure code in and are familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT)
You coach the team on development best practices and coding guidelines (e.g., branching, peer reviews, library use, logging, scanning rules, test-driven development, error handling)
You enjoy doing technical code and architecture reviews, looking for anti-patterns and promoting continuous improvement
You like to research and understand the application of new programming languages, frameworks, and libraries to promote faster and secure development
You are passionate about paying down technical debt and driving operational excellence, prioritizing customer experience
You can define, organize, and report on test runs for major, minor, and hotfix releases (including unit, component level, system level, customer journeys, past customer issues, and regulatory controls)
You have a DevOps mindset
Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology or related discipline preferred, or equivalent work experience
In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
- Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
