Lead Software Engineer

Responsibilities: As a Lead Software Engineer, you will: Lead strategic technical direction for applications, architectures, and development processes. Lead and push the boundaries of analytics and powerful, scalable applications Act as a key contributor to product implementation while empowering your team Build and maintain analytics and data models to enable performant and scalable products. Champion innovation by exploring and adopting new technologies and methodologies. Lead with an agile mindset, adapting to changes quickly and guiding your team to pivot when needed. Coach, mentor, and develop a cross-functional engineering team to deliver high-quality solutions and well-tested code Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning. Collaborate across teams and business units to solveplex technical problems and ensure alignment. Partner with Product Managers and Customer Experience Designers to define roadmaps, scope features, and plan releases. Ensure projects meet customer demands while scaling platform solutions for future growth. Ideal Candidate Qualifications: 10+ years of engineering experience in an agile production environment. Experience leading the design and implementation ofplex features in full-stack applications. Proficiency with object-oriented languages, preferably Java/ Spring. Proficiency with modern front-end frameworks, preferably React with Redux, Typescript. Fluent in the use of Git, Jenkins. Solid experience with RESTful APIs and JSON/SOAP based API. Solid experience with SQL, Multi-threading, Message Queuing. Experience in building and deploying production-level data-driven applications and data processing. workflows/pipelines and/or implementing machine learning systems at scale in Java, Scala, or Python and deliver analytics involving all phases. Data engineering or data science background with strong understanding of data pipelines, architecture, infrastructure, and management. Desirable Capabilities : Hands on experience of cloud native development using microservices. Hands on experience on Kafka, Zookeeper. Knowledge of enterprise application security protocols and concepts. Expertise with automated E2E and unit testing frameworks. Knowledge of Splunk or other alerting and monitoring solutions. Corepetencies: Strong technologist eager to learn new technologies and frameworks. Experience coaching and mentoring junior teammates. Customer-centric development approach Passion for analytical / quantitative problem solving Ability to identify and implement improvements to team development processes Strong collaboration skills with experience collaborating across many people, roles, and geographies Motivation, creativity, self-direction, and desire to thrive on small project teams Superior academic record with a degree inputer Science or related technical field Strong written and verbal Englishmunication skills Corporate Security Responsibility All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networkses 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 plete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines. Corporate Security Responsibility All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networkses 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 Job ID R-247428