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

Our Purpose:
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview:
The 'Services within Mastercard' division is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.

Identity Solutions (a program within Services), is the global standard in identity verification, providing businesses worldwide the ability to link any digital transaction to the human behind it. Our Identity Engine, the first and only of its kind, uses complex machine learning to combine features derived from the billions of transactions within our proprietary network and the data from our graph to deliver industry leading risk assessment solutions.

We are the Identity Solutions Services Platform Engineering team responsible for building the capabilities required to package our customer-facing api products.
We are looking for Lead Software Engineer who can help tech lead other developers in the team.

Role & Responsibilities:
Work as part of a development Scrum team in an Agile environment that is geographically diverse
Help lead and mentor team from tech perspective
Responsible for the analysis, design, development, and delivery of software backend (REST API) solutions
Define requirements for new applications and customization adhering to Mastercard standards, processes, and best practices
Develop, customize, and test applications to integrate to Mastercard's specifications

All About You:
The ideal candidate would have the following skills:
Advanced Java development skills
Advanced skills and knowledge of Java 17+, Spring Boot, JPA, Hibernate
Experience in building Restful services and clients using Spring framework
Experience working with Junit/Mockito/Spring Test
Experience with JBehave / Cucumber BDD testing/ Spock
Self-motivated with the ability to accomplish tasks with minimal direction
Experience mentoring providing technical support to junior team members
Experience managing projects/initiatives as either an individual contributor or leading a small team
Ability to innovate and develop new approaches to complex design problems
Basic security knowledge (TLS, Encryption, hashing, JWT)
Knowledge of cloud platforms like Azure or AWS or PCF

The ideal candidate may also possess some of these secondary skills:
Experience with NoSQL databases
Experience with Git, Jenkins, Maven/Gradle
Experience with File Transfer Service (FTP/SFTP)

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
O'Fallon, Missouri: $138,000 - $221,000 USD