Lead Software Engineer

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.

Title and Summary

Lead Software Engineer

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments sector. We power payments and provide products and services for individuals and industries all around the world. Our people, technology, data and brand provide the capabilities that drive our success. We believe in connecting people to priceless possibilities.

As a company, we know that our success is driven by the skills, experience, integrity and mindset of the talent we hire. By building an inclusive, world-class culture, our employees have once-in-a-career opportunities to be a part of teams that have a greater impact on our community and our world. We invite you to join our team to find out how you too can start something priceless.

Overview

Mastercard’s Commercial Solutions team is a rapidly growing organization with responsibilities to deliver innovative solutions to help our customers grow and expand their business. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this dynamic team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. We are seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer to lead a cross-functional development team within the Commercial Solutions organization.

Role:

• Build performant, scalable and secure web applications.
• Provide leadership, guidance and direction on systems and web application architecture and system design.
• Guide and coach less experienced engineers.
• Focus on user-centered design.
• Spearhead design, technical and code reviews.
• Implement coding standards and approaches.
• Promote an Agile approach to software development. Insist on a culture of continuous integration and delivery, automation and minimizing blast radius.
• Collaborate with teams across the organization to mitigate risk and resolve dependencies.


All About You:

• Successfully designed and developed externally facing web applications utilizing modern single page application frameworks. Angular and React JS experience preferred.
• Deep understanding of JavaScript and it’s benefits and quirks.
• Successfully designed and developed cloud ready REST APIs utilizing industry best practices.
• Deep understanding of Cloud Architecture and it’s benefits and quirks.
• Deep understanding of Messaging frameworks and event-based architecture and it’s benefits and quirks.
• Possess an understanding of multi-tier web development; including knowledge of server-side technologies and databases.
• Understanding of web application optimizations such as progressive web apps, web workers, browser repaints and reflows, performance and memory optimizations, debugging memory leaks, caching, flame graphs.
• Experience and knowledge of authentication and authorization workflows using concepts like JWT.
• Have proficiency in Quality engineering and experience working with Quality leads to define processes and technologies.
• Passion for improving code quality using approaches such as unit and end to end testing.
• Deep knowledge of Continuous Integration and Delivery and toolsets that provide this ability.
• Understanding of agile principles and methodologies and experience implementing and adapting them to fit the team’s needs.
• Use and understand Git based source control systems.
• Proven experience building ADA and WCAG compliant web applications.

Mastercard is an 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. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment 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 inf