Lead Software Engineer

About the role

The Business Experimentation and Optimization (BE&O) teams within Mastercard’s Services organization are building industry-leading software that empowers business users around the world to make data-driven decisions through advanced analytics and experimentation. As we expand our product offerings and modernize our technology stack, we are reimagining how we deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions to our clients.

What you'll do

• As a Lead Software Engineer, you will lead through technical influence, architectural judgment
• Define and drive technical strategy for modernization initiatives, including evolution of legacy systems toward scalable, cloud-native, API-driven
• Lead system design across multiple levels of detail, including platform architecture, high-level design, detailed technical design, integration patterns
• Serve as a hands-on technical contributor, designing, coding, testing, debugging, and delivering production-quality software across the full engineering lifecycle
• Build and evolve scalable services, APIs, data pipelines, and analytical capabilities using modern engineering practices, cloud platforms

What you need

• 8–14 years in software engineering
• REST APIs
• Java
• Python
• AWS
• Microservices
• Kubernetes
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA

Good to have

• Machine learning
• Spark
• Databricks
• Azure
• System design
• CI/CD