Lead Software Engineer

Who you are

• Has the ability to write secure code in three or more languages, such as C, C++, C#, Java, or JavaScript, and is familiar with secure coding standards, including OWASP, CWE, and SEI CERT
• Has experience building applications using open frameworks to improve reuse and reduce development time, such as Spring Boot, Steeltoe, Angular, DXP, or similar frameworks
• Understands operating system internals, including Windows and Linux, to write interoperable and performant code
• Is able to debug and troubleshoot complex issues by analyzing core, heap, and thread dumps and resolving coding errors
• Can select and optimize data structures to support efficient, scalable, and maintainable software design. [Lead SE Skills | Excel]
• Has experience documenting and coaching teams on development practices and coding guidelines, including branching, peer reviews, library use, logging, scanning rules, test-driven development, and error handling
• Understands advanced design patterns, such as service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, and lazy loading, and can apply them to implement efficient code
• Can perform technical reviews of code across applications and dependencies to identify anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring
• Understands and communicates technical debt and operational issues to support prioritization discussions with stakeholders and improve the run experience
• Understands system architecture and can plan for platform and infrastructure capacity, including database, compute, network, and storage
• Has experience improving customer journeys by reducing mean time to mitigate incidents and supporting high availability
• Has experience simplifying deployment and eliminating software and infrastructure snowflakes using standardized platforms, ephemeral instances, and automation
• Can orchestrate release workflows and pipelines and apply standardized pipelines through APIs to achieve CI/CD using industry-standard tools, such as Jenkins, Bamboo, AWS/Azure Pipelines, XL Release, or similar tools
• Can configure rules and automation for vulnerability scanning and software composition analysis using tools such as Sonar, Checkmarx, Nexus, JFrog XRay, Veracode, or similar tools
• Can define, organize, and report on test runs for major, minor, and hotfix releases, including unit, component-level, system-level, customer journey, prior customer issue, and regulatory control testing
• Has experience conducting performance tests, including load, spike, breakpoint, and endurance testing, to understand application and service limits and behaviors

What the job involves

• As a Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard, you will be expected to:
• Own complex problems with dependencies across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution
• Write code to build and enhance applications and services, while promoting code reviews, code scanning, and standard development practices to deliver high-quality artifacts to production
• Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at the service level to meet business requirements and enhancements
• Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in partnership with product stakeholders
• Identify opportunities and build roadmaps to enhance the primary service or function
• Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development, actively identifying opportunities to improve efficiency
• Drive seamless integration across connected services to meet end-user expectations
• Support operational readiness by designing for observability, reliability, and maintainability after deployment. [Lead SE Skills | Excel]
• Drive a blameless postmortem culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings
• Introduce new technologies and architecture while following enterprise guidelines
• Advocate for engineering principles outside of the current organization or 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 unbiased view of accomplishments
• Conduct technical interviews for engineering roles and help raise the performance bar
• Lead by example with hands-on approaches that demonstrate engineering excellence
• Encourage team members to share and seek knowledge within their Guild or Program to drive reuse of patterns, libraries, and practices