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 EngineerOverview- We are into development of Payment Solution
- Payment solution can be used in the store, inside your application or on-line via the browser
- We are looking for Lead Engineers who can lead development of microservices based Enterprise applications using Java J2EE stack
- Also, development of Portals which would be either used by customer care, end user, customer representatives etc.
- We are looking for you, if your answer to following question is YES
o Have you developed and led a complex enterprise application?
o Are you skilled on the latest J2EE frameworks?
Role
- Technically lead project through all stages of the project life cycle, including requirement understanding, estimation, design, development, acceptance testing
- Work closely with Project Architect, BA and/or customer and come up with high level and low level design
- Develop critical components whenever required and create proof of concepts for new/unknown use cases/ideas
- Conduct code reviews, is responsible for overall code quality, Coach and mentor less experienced team members
- Write and review Design Documentation in conjunction with Technical writer, Do SCM Operations – branching, merging, tagging, conflict resolution
- Study upcoming technologies and identify how they can be used to improve existing solution
- Comply with organizations processes. Policies and protects organization’s Intellectual property. Also, participate in organization level process improvement and knowledge sharing
Essential knowledge, skills & attributes
- Hands on experience and expert on working with core Java, Spring Boot, Spring (MVC, IOC, AOP, Security), SQL, RDBMS (Oracle and PostGRES), NoSQL (Cassandra), Web-services (JSON and SOAP), Kafka, Zookeeper
- Hands on experience of developing microservice application & deploying them on any one of the public cloud like Google, AWS, Azure
- Hands on experience of using Eclipse/My Eclipse IDE, UML tools (MS Visio, PlantUML)
- Hands on experience of writing Junit test cases, working with Maven/Ant/Gradle, GIT
- Experience of working with Agile methodologies.
- Personal attributes are strong logical and Analytical Skills, design skills, should be able to articulate and present his/her thoughts very clearly and precisely in English (written and verbal)
- Knowledge of Design Patterns
- Knowledge of Security concepts (E.g. authentication, authorization, confidentiality etc.) and protocols, their usage in enterprise application
- Experience of working in Payments application Domain
- Hands on experience of working with tools like Mockito, JBehave, Jenkins, Bamboo, Confluence, Rally
- AI exposure. Experience of using AI tools like Github CoPilot, Claude or Cursor.
- Experience of reviewing the AI output with the functional aspects and coding standardsCorporate Security Responsibility
- 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.

