Lead Software Engineer (Backend / Platform – Agentic AI)

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 (Backend / Platform – Agentic AI) Overview Who We Are — Mastercard Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, operating in over 210+ countries and territories. Our mission is to power an inclusive, sustainable, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere — by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. We harness secure data, world class networks, deep partnerships, and relentless innovation to help individuals, financial institutions, businesses, and governments reach their greatest potential. Our culture is guided by our Decency Quotient (DQ) — a core value that influences every decision we make and how we treat all who rely on us. About AI & Decision Product Enablement (AI&DPE) AI & Decision Product Enablement (AI&DPE) is Mastercard’s innovation engine for AI driven decisioning at global scale. We build and enhance the platforms that power real time intelligence across Mastercard’s network — enabling: • Millisecond latency decisioning • Resilient, highly available global services • Hundreds of AI models • Hundreds of thousands of business rules • 0 50+ market facing products across Mastercard Services Products that protect revenue, mitigate fraud, and empower customers worldwide AI&DPE teams ensure Mastercard delivers industry leading agility, intelligence, resiliency, and scalability in every product we build. Role This role involves working with a team of talented developers to develop high performance, high volume solutions. You will be responsible for: • Lead day to day systems development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market. • Accountable for full systems development life cycle including creating high quality requirements documents, use-cases, design and other technical artifacts including but not limited to detailed test strategy/test design, performance benchmarking, release rollout and deployment plans, contingency/back-out plans, feasibility study, cost and time analysis and detailed estimates. • Collaborate with Architects, fellow Leads, Developers, Business Analysts & Product Owners in Dublin & other Mastercard locations. • Develop high-quality, secure, scalable and maintainable Java-based software solutions. • Apply best practices for automated testing, automated code quality, automated delivery & automated monitoring. • Mentor the senior & junior engineers on your team through sound technical advice, UML documentation & code reviews. • Assist with troubleshooting production incidents & channel learnings back into the development stream to mitigate future customer impact. • Participate in PoCs (Proof of Concept) and help the Department with selection of Vendor Solutions, Technologies, Methodologies and Frameworks. • Collaborate with vendor resources for support of products. • Conduct brownbag sessions on new and upcoming technologies, methodologies and application appropriate frameworks. • Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency. • Perform Quality Inspections and Walkthroughs throughout the SDLC including Requirements Review, Design Review, Code Review and Security Review to ensure compliance with Mastercard and PCI standards. • Work as part of a co-located Agile SCRUM team. All About You • Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, ... (truncated, view full listing at source)