Lead Software Engineer

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

Are you ready to revolutionize the world of small and medium enterprises (SMEs)? Mastercard is on the hunt for elite engineers to join our SME Unified Business Experience team. We're crafting groundbreaking global products that deliver unparalleled features and platforms to SMEs across the globe.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll be the driving force behind the design, development, and delivery of robust, scalable, and high-performing software solutions. Your visionary leadership will shape our technical strategies, inspire our elite engineering team, and ensure the triumphant execution of pioneering projects. We're looking for a full-stack engineer with expertise in both front-end and back-end technology stacks, working closely with enterprise architects and product management to define features and user stories in addition provide technical guidance to the engineering team on the new product development.

Responsibilities:
Technical Expertise: Mastery in front-end and back-end technologies.
Collaboration: Work closely with enterprise architects and product management to define features and user stories.
Development & Maintenance: Contribute to day-to-day system development and maintenance activities to meet service level agreements (SLAs).
Innovation: Create solutions with high levels of innovation, cost-effectiveness, quality, and faster time to market.
Training: Provide technical training to other team members.
Process Improvement: Actively seek opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.
Production Support: Support services in production.
Communication: Ensure iterative delivery dates across a continuous development lifecycle are met, while identifying emerging issues.

All About You:
Full-Stack Engineering & Architecture: Deep experience in front-end development using React, React Native, Vue.js, and Ext JS, combined with strong backend skills in Java, Spring, REST APIs, and microservices. Proficient in building scalable, performant, and accessible applications with a solid foundation in database technologies (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and cloud-native architecture.
Leadership, Security & Agile Delivery: Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor engineering teams, apply secure coding practices (OWASP, CWE), and deliver high-quality software using Agile, Scrum, and SAFe methodologies, with a focus on system resilience, customer experience, and stakeholder satisfaction.
Proficient in advanced debugging and troubleshooting, including core, heap, and thread dump analysis.
Experienced in documenting and coaching development best practices (e.g., branching, peer reviews, TDD, error handling).
Strong understanding of advanced design patterns (e.g., MVC, API Gateway, Dependency Injection) for efficient code implementation.
Skilled in conducting code reviews across applications to identify anti-patterns and support continuous refactoring.
Ability to articulate technical debt and operational risks to stakeholders to drive prioritization and improvement.
Knowledge of system architecture and infrastructure planning to support scalable delivery.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipeline orchestration using tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, and Azure Pipelines.
Familiar with configuring code quality and security tools (e.g., Sonar, Checkmarx, Veracode) and managing test and performance runs.

This role is not eligible for Mastercard's work authorization sponsorship. As such, candidates must be eligible to work in the United States, now as well as in the future, without employer sponsorship.

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Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact 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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges
Atlanta, Georgia: $138,000 - $221,000 USD