Lead Software Engineer

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

Overview:
• Customer Connectivity is a global Mastercard team that designs, builds and supports service platforms that provide cryptographic, key management and certificate management functions utilized by global Mastercard application teams.
• The Customer Connectivity team develops and supports shared security services to be leveraged across Enterprise by consuming application teams. Our inventory of shared services include cryptography, certificate management, code signing, and key management.
• As a Lead Software Engineer for Cryptographic Security, you serve as a technical authority, providing comprehensive leadership and guiding critical decisions across our program and its technology and product partners. You act as a pathfinder, collaborating across organizational boundaries with architects, product managers, analysts, managers, and engineers to develop creative solutions for evolving our growing platform. As an enabler, you take a hands-on approach—experimenting, building, and mentoring engineering teams to successfully implement and deliver these solutions into production.
Role:
• Acts as a technical team leader and individual contributor, devoting a substantial portion of their time to hands-on work. Recognized as a subject matter expert and authority in their field, they promote innovation and propel organizational growth through their impactful contributions
• Lead complex, enterprise-wide initiatives that span multiple services and programs, collaborating with business and product owners, engineers, and architects to design and implement new services that enable the introduction of innovative products and bundles
• Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions
• Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
• Leverages input of partners and personal experience to make thoughtful decisions on technical direction
• Explain technical issues and solution strategies to stakeholders, ensure timely accomplishment of technical designs and delivery milestones and liaise with stakeholders to understand business needs
All About You
• You’ve built your career designing and developing high-performance, globally scalable platforms and key
• Early in your career, you earned a reputation for solving the toughest problems others couldn’t crack. As your career advanced, so did the complexity of the challenges you tackled. While you still enjoy rolling up your sleeves, you now thrive on collaborating with others to address monumental challenges that no one can solve alone.
• Developing exceptional software is one of your greatest passions, but you understand that it’s only part of the equation. You value collaborating with SRE, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to ensure architectures are robust, systems are finely tuned, and your teams’ code is optimized for its environment.
• Aware that your software serves as critical financial infrastructure for multiple nation-states, you balance hands-on leadership with a focus on ensuring SDLC and governance processes are both effective and responsible.
• Your intelligence and diligence are evident not because you talk about them but because you lead by example. Whether fostering inclusive ideation sessions where every voice is respected or staying in the trenches during production crises to resolve last-minute issues, you set a personal standard that defines the team’s culture.
Proficiencies
• Profound experience in Key Management System
• Design and Architecture patterns – APIs, event-driven-services, batch-services, messaging systems
• Programming – Java, REST API, Microservices, Kafka, Axon, MQ, and Spring.
• Cloud and DevOps Architecture – Kubernetes, Docker, Chef, Azure, AWS
• Databases – PostgreSQL
• Tools – Eclipse or IntelliJ, Sonar, GIT, Maven, SQL Developer, Jenkins, CI/CD
Good To Have
• Experience in working with fast-paced, modern architecture using C++, JNI and HSM.
• Experience with cryptographic primitives, concepts, and protocols
• Experience with confidential computing

Mastercard is an 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. 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