Lead Software Development 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 Development Engineer

Mastercard is the global technology company behind the world's fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.

The Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include payments-focused consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, business Test & Learn experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services.

As a Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard,

You will lead the development of analytics applications that sit atop vast datasets gathered by retail stores, restaurants, banks, and other consumer-focused companies. The challenge is to create high-performance algorithms, cutting-edge analytical techniques, compelling visualizations, and intuitive workflows that allow our users to derive insights from big data that in turn drive their businesses.

You will have the opportunity to create high-performance analytic applications based on data sets measured in the billions of transactions and front-end visualizations to unleash the value of big data. The reward is well worth the effort as an elegant solution can create millions of dollars of profit in a single run.

Engineers work in small, flexible teams. Every team member contributes to feature design, building, and testing. The range of work you encounter varies from front-end web development to writing server-side calculation code to database work. There are no rigid organizational structures at Mastercard; each team uses processes that work the best for that team's members and projects.
This position is based out of our new Dublin, Ireland office, but will be working closely with our US teams based in Arlington, VA and Pune, India.

Role

• Lead large scale projects from inception to release.
• Lead design of major, complex part of the platform with high-quality development.
• Define state of the art service-oriented software architectures.
• Lead the development team and serve as a technical resource for team members.
• Lead planning and scoping features for the team.
• Build features used by some of the world's largest organizations to make multi-million dollar decisions.
• Continuously innovate and determine new technologies and approaches to deal with larger and larger data sets faster and faster.
• Play a leading role in shaping office culture and growing the recently started Pune, Data & Services Platforms team.
• Play a key role in shaping the direction of engineering processes through working on a small team empowered to organize and run the team as they see fit.
• Mentor junior engineers and teammates.
• Work to define feature requirements and deliver the product that materially impacts the business and improves the consumer experience.
• Work closely with Product Owner and provide technical inputs to define the product roadmap.

All about you/Ideal candidate for qualification

• Solid technical foundation in full stack development.
• Experience solving and implementing scalable solutions to solve complex problems.
• Familiarity in modular design using and creating single-responsibility services and APIs.
• Strong understanding of vanilla Java Script and Java Script web frameworks like React/Redux, Angular, etc.
• Strong understanding of web technologies, server-side technologies for developing the microservice.
• Knowledge of C# or any object-oriented technologies, SQL.
• Strong understanding of microservices development and integration of microservices with UI technology.
• Experience in working in agile methodologies and environment.
• Full stack engineering experience in a production environment.
• Passion for analytical / quantitative problem solving.
• Experience in CI/CD and strong focus on the engineering methodology.
• Motivation, creativity, self-direction, and desire to thrive on small project teams.
• Critically review the code and provide guidance to the team with a focus on improving the code quality.
• Superior academic record with a degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Prior experience leading a team or mentoring other engineers, both technically and professionally preferred.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

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.

Job ID R-225703