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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. 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 Mastercard Settings team is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.

Role

Essential responsibilities of the position include:

Has the ability to write secure code in three or more languages. Expert understanding of Cobol is a must.

Has an expert understanding of engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture)

Has led a team of developers and provides directions and procedures in software delivery tasks (code development, test, deployment)

Good working knowledge of secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT)

Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices

Apply tools and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx )

Understands and builds test code at unit level, service level, and integration level to ensure code and functional coverage

Has an expert understanding of design patterns (e.g., factory, adaptor, singleton, composite, observer, strategy, inversion of control)

Expert in business and technical writing

All About You

Understands requirement analysis being essential part of delivering value to our customers and partners and participate in elaboration, prioritization, and effort estimation

Understands different SDLC practices (Waterfall/Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) and the delivery situations they are used for

Expert understanding of different application patterns to implement different types of business processes (e.g., APIs, event-driven-services, batch-services, web-applications, big data)

A good working knowledge of Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization

Has ability to write code (Cobol, .Net) to build automation tasks that are repeatable and efficient

Understands functional and non-functional testing types to elaborate and estimate

The ideal candidate for this position should:

Proven track record of engineering solutions in a complex mainframe environment

Provide code reviews for team members

Understands the big picture and end-to-end logical architecture of systems in ownership areas

Provide feedback and suggestions on areas to improve

Understands the use of Mastercard technology policies in everyday work

Demonstrate active learning and sharing of software practices via Guild/Engineering community initiatives

Corporate Security Responsibility

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position must:

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

Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

+ 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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $138,000 - $221,000 USD