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 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 Mastercard is looking for a talented Lead Software Engineer to join the Mastercard Cross Border Services team in Pune that’s focussed in building Cross Border Services (XBS) capabilities to financial services. This role will be pivotal for XBS in the cloud transformation journey. In this role you will be part of a highly agile team building exciting and innovative products delivered at scale to global markets. Role This role involves working with a team of talented engineers to develop high performance Cross Border payment solutions. The role is mix of defining the technical strategy, architecture, design and hands on coding and working with broader team of engineers to drive outcomes. As a principal software engineer your role would be categorized into these broad areas Define, Design & Code Software solutions - Lead the architecture, design and development of software systems and applications. These solutions & software targeted towards a clients’ specific needs or create products geared for Mastercard. - Act as senior most engineers in the team to determine everything from design choices to technical standards, such as platforms and coding standards. - Collaborate to product teams to understand the requirements, identify solution, propose ideas and provide technical thought leadership. - Evaluate build vs buy solutions, partners with fintechs and startups to create innovative solution - Document the overall systems/application architecture, help create high level design and provide guidance to the engineering team on low level design - Domain driven design is your game. Code to enforce the contextual mappings and aggregates for each bounded context. Drive implementation of consumer driven contracts to allow for evolution and learning of the domain model with hyper speed while meeting our promises to other teams internally and customers alike. - You are polyglot engineering guru, you bring cutting edge engineering practices to life in multiple evolving frameworks – Feature flags, fitness functions and whatever is required to reduce the cost and increase the lifecycle value of next feature delivered by engineering teams. - You love declarative paradigm and functional programming. No one can stop you in paying off technical debt and refactoring the code for better SDLC, performance and availability. - You implement, monitor and maintain compliance and security concerns in CI/CD pipelines to bring life to the principle of “Code is Design and Design is Code”. Tech Lead - Tech lead on software development projects, especially at early stage (concept, PoC, Prototype, Pilot) - Create a team of engineers suitable for the scope of the project, assigning tasks, working with scrum lead to c ... (truncated, view full listing at source)