Lead Software Engineer
Listed on Mastercard’s official careers site. Posted October 9, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there.
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary Lead Software Engineer Overview
- We are into development of Payment Solution
- Payment solution can be used in the store, inside your application or on-line via the browser
- We are looking for Lead Engineers who can lead development of microservices based Enterprise applications using Java J2EE stack
- Also, development of Portals which would be either used by customer care, end user, customer representatives etc.
- We are looking for you, if your answer to following question is YES o Are you interested to next generation Payment solutions? o Have you developed and led a complex enterprise application? o Are you skilled on the latest J2EE frameworks?
Role
- Technically lead project through all stages of the project life cycle, including requirement understanding, estimation, design, development, acceptance testing
- Work closely with Project Architect, BA and/or customer and come up with high level and low level design
- Develop critical components whenever required and create proof of concepts for new/unknown use cases/ideas
- Conduct code reviews, is responsible for overall code quality, Coach and mentor less experienced team members
- Write and review Design Documentation in conjunction with Technical writer, Do SCM Operations – branching, merging, tagging, conflict resolution
- Study upcoming technologies and identify how they can be used to improve existing solution
- Comply with organizations processes. Policies and protects organization’s Intellectual property. Also, participate in organization level process improvement and knowledge sharing All
About You
Essential knowledge, skills & attributes
- Hands on experience and expert on working with core Java, Spring Boot, Spring (MVC, IOC, AOP, Security), SQL, RDBMS (Oracle and PostGRES), NoSQL (Cassandra), Web-services (JSON and SOAP), Kafka, Zookeeper
- Hands on experience of developing microservice application & deploying them on any one of the public cloud like Google, AWS, Azure
- Hands on experience of using Eclipse/My Eclipse IDE, UML tools (MS Visio, PlantUML)
- Hands on experience of writing Junit test cases, working with Maven/Ant/Gradle, GIT
- Experience of working with Agile methodologies.
- Personal attributes are strong logical and Analytical Skills, design skills, should be able to articulate and present his/her thoughts very clearly and precisely in English (written and verbal)
- Knowledge of Design Patterns
- Knowledge of Security concepts (E.g. authentication, authorization, confidentiality etc.) and protocols, their usage in enterprise application Additional/Desirable capabilities
- Experience of working in Payments application Domain
- Hands on experience of working with tools like Mockito, JBehave, Jenkins, Bamboo, Confluence, Rally
- AI exposure. Experience of using AI tools like Github CoPilot, Claude or Cursor.
- Experience of reviewing the AI output with the functional aspects and coding standards 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.
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