Lead Software Development Engineer

Mastercard
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 140,000 - 231,000Function: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Technical leadership","Communication","Stakeholder management","Engineering mentoring","Governance"]

Drive software architecture, engineering strategy, and delivery for Mastercard’s next-generation payment platforms. Lead design across multiple teams, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers through architecture reviews and technical governance. Architect scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and event-driven architectures using Kafka, ensuring performance, reliability, security, and strong observability. Build and modernize cloud-native solutions using Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD, while adopting agentic AI engineering practices responsibly.

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Lead Software Development Engineer

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Job Summary

Drive software architecture, engineering strategy, and delivery for Mastercard’s next-generation payment platforms. Lead design across multiple teams, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers through architecture reviews and technical governance. Architect scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and event-driven architectures using Kafka, ensuring performance, reliability, security, and strong observability. Build and modernize cloud-native solutions using Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD, while adopting agentic AI engineering practices responsibly.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead software design and architecture decisions across multiple teams and platforms.
  • •Define engineering standards for software development, testing, security, operability, and deployment; conduct architecture reviews and technical governance.
  • •Architect highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems and drive performance engineering (load testing, capacity planning, scalability analysis, production optimization).
  • •Design and implement large-scale event-driven architectures using Kafka and modern messaging patterns, championing asynchronous processing best practices.
  • •Lead cloud-native development and security/reliability/operations practices, including secure coding standards, observability, monitoring, troubleshooting, and responsible adoption of agentic AI engineering practices.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 140,000 - 231,000
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • •3+ years leading large-scale distributed system initiatives.
  • •Expert-level Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices architecture, and distributed systems expertise.
  • •Strong software architecture and design leadership experience.
  • •Demonstrated experience with AI-assisted software development, AI agents, MCP, RAG, and agentic workflows, along with secure coding, quality, and observability practices.
Experience:Distributed systemsMicroservicesDigital paymentsPayment platforms
Skills:Technical leadershipCommunicationStakeholder managementEngineering mentoringGovernance
Tech Stack:JavaSpring BootREST APIsMicroservicesKafkaPCFKubernetesDockerCI/CDObservabilityRAGMCPAI agentsLoad testingRoot cause analysis

Company Brief

Mastercard
Mastercard is a global payments and technology company that processes transactions, provides fraud prevention and data services, and builds payment infrastructure for consumers, businesses, merchants and governments across 200+ countries.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Purchase, New York, United States
Founded: 1966
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