Job Title:

Lead Software Engineer

Overview:

Are you ready to revolutionize the world of small and medium enterprises (SMEs)? Mastercard is on the hunt for elite engineers to join our SME Unified Business Experience team. We're crafting groundbreaking global products that deliver unparalleled features and platforms to SMEs across the globe.

As a Staff Software Engineer (Lead), you'll be the driving force behind the design, development, and delivery of robust, scalable, and high-performing software solutions. Your visionary leadership will shape our technical strategies, inspire our elite engineering team, and ensure the triumphant execution of pioneering projects. You will be an expert in both front-end and back-end technology stacks, working closely with enterprise architects and product management to define features and user stories.

Responsibilities:
• Technical Expertise: Mastery in front-end and back-end technologies.
• Collaboration: Work closely with enterprise architects and product management to define features and user stories.
• Development & Maintenance: Contribute to day-to-day system development and maintenance activities to meet service level agreements (SLAs).
• Innovation: Create solutions with high levels of innovation, cost-effectiveness, quality, and faster time to market.
• Training: Provide technical training to other team members.
• Process Improvement: Actively seek opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.
• Production Support: Support services in production.
• Communication: Ensure iterative delivery dates across a continuous development lifecycle are met, while identifying emerging issues.

Qualifications:
• Technical Skills: Expertise in using front-end and back-end technologies such as React, Node, Ext, Java, Kotlin.
• Backend Proficiency: Strong knowledge of Java, REST API, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Jenkins, Spring, Oracle, GIT, Microservices, Messaging Framework.
• Architecture: Experience with Microservices, MicroFrontends and Cloud Native Architecture.
• Leadership: Proven experience leading and mentoring other engineers in a technical capacity.
• Security: Familiarity with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT).
• Project Management: Track record of delivering major pieces of functionality on time and on budget.
• Problem Solving: Ability to solve scale, resilience, security, and robustness problems.
• Database Management: Experience with databases like Oracle/Postgres and NoSQL MongoDB.
• SDLC Practices: Knowledge of different SDLC practices (Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and their appropriate use cases.
• Engineering Principles: Proficiency in basic engineering principles for building and running mission-critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture).
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong relationship-building, collaborative, and organizational skills.
• Bachelor or Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent