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. We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. 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 Transfer Solutions team was created to establish Mastercard as the frontrunner in the fast-evolving real-time payments space, and to position MasterCard to be able to incubate the development of new payment flows. The team is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard’s next generation payment applications – Domestic, Cross Border and Bill Payments. Mastercard seeks to define a world beyond cash. To accelerate this mission, we are committed to building & scaling products & applications that transform payments of any type. Real time payment technology is central to this strategy. • Do you like to be part of a team that creates and executes strategic initiatives centered around digital payments? • Do you look forward to developing and engaging with high performant diverse teams around the globe? • Would you like to be part of a highly visible, strategically important global engineering organization? The Role: What’s it all about and what we expect you to do day to day • Own complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution • Write code to build and enhance applications/services and promote code-reviews, code scanning, and other standard development practices to deliver high-quality artifacts to production. • Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements • Participate and contribute to team’s agile process and decisions. Understand and contribute to Prioritization. Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners • Identify opportunities and build backlogs to enhance primary service/function • Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed. • Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence. Able to troubleshoot and refactor existing code for exceptional code quality. • Drive seamless integration across all connected services to meet end-user expectations • Drive blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings • Introduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines • Advocate for engineering principles outside of current organization/platform • Provide development and architecture guidance to team members • Build relationships and effective partnerships across organizations • Write and evaluate recommendations for job promotions based on an ... (truncated, view full listing at source)