Lead Software Engineer (Hadoop, Spark, Scala, and NiFi pipeline))

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 (Hadoop, Spark, Scala, and NiFi pipeline))

Who is Mastercard?We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results.
OverviewThe Franchise and Legal Solutions (FLS) Program contributes to the future of Mastercard by enabling growth in products, markets, services, and innovations in an increasingly complex and competitive environment while protecting our brand and business. We support, enable, and protect the franchise agreement by implementing the rules of the road for anyone interacting with our business. Our teams design, develop, and maintain comprehensive business solutions that connect the dots across different regions and functions. Our deep technology portfolio offers ample room for engineers to use innovation as a driver of strategy. Technologists working with us will grow in Agile, architecture, design, engineering, and strategy.
Franchise and Legal Solutions Program is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to drive best practices for software development while delivering on our customer commitments.
RoleAll staff at Mastercard are expected to demonstrate 'Mastercard Way' cultural values every day - own it, simplify it, sense of urgency, thoughtful risk-taking, unlock potential, and be inclusive – with a relentless focus on our customers. As a Senior Software Development Engineer at Mastercard, you are expected to perform the following general duties:
Participate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholders
Estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements
Automate build, operate, and run aspects of software
Drive integration of services focusing on customer journey and experience
Perform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product owners
Drive adoption of technology standards and opinionated frameworks, and review coding, test, and automation work of team members
All About You
Strong hands-on experience in Hadoop, Spark, Scala, and NiFi pipeline development
Ability to write secure and optimized code in Scala
Experience with big data processing frameworks (Apache Spark, Hive, HDFS, Kafka, Flink)
Strong understanding of data ingestion, transformation, and processing using NiFi pipelines
Understanding of distributed computing principles and handling large-scale data processing
Familiar with secure coding standards and vulnerability management
Understands branching strategies (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review best practices
Experience with test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD)
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
Strong experience in Agile and SDLC methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with debugging capabilities
Good to have: Experience in Java Spring Boot development
Ability to work in cross-functional teams and interact with business stakeholders
Experience with API development, microservices, and RESTful services
Strong communication skills and ability to mentor junior engineers
This role offers a dynamic environment for an experienced engineer to drive impact with innovative technology solutions while contributing to Mastercard’s mission of building a secure and inclusive digital economy.

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.