65 Software Lead jobs in Ireland

**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 InControl for Commercial Payments (ICCP) platform is a fundamental part of Mastercard's Commercial Solutions, enabling some of our largest customers to issue Virtual Cards to securely manage and report on Travel, Expense & Supplier transactions. Focused on secure, highly available and innovative solutions, this dynamic team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base.
We are seeking a Technical Software Development Lead to work with our cross-functional development teams within the Virtual Cards, Spend Controls & Alerts program organization.
Role
- Builds (design, develop, and deliver) complex applications, framework, tools, and researches alternative technical solutions as per changing business needs and delivers quality product in a timely and cost effective manner.
- Successfully lead major projects and complex assignments with broad scope and long-term business implications. Create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market.
- Lead day to day software development and maintenance activities of the team.
- Contribute to the overall strategy and manage complex issues within functional area of expertise.
- Develop overall strategic technical plan and create architecture solutions and proposals.
- Mentor, coach and assist project team members. Provide technical training to the team. Assist with selection of technical resources for projects.
- Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives for the business needs current and future.
- Collaborate with business and technical partners to identify and scope opportunities, identify risks, benefits and constraints.
- Contribute ideas to help ensure that required standards and processes are in place and actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.
All About You
- Proven experience as a technical lead, building world class solutions on a global scale.
- Experience in a related field, experience in delivering secure, maintainable, scalable and complex application solutions.
- Full Stack developer with strong Java development/architecture experience.
- Experience documenting detailed designs with class and sequence diagrams.
- Expert in web technologies such as Spring, JavaScript, JQuery, AngularJS, CSS, cross browser compatibility, GWT & HTML.
- Experience with responsive design, working with RESTful APIs and JSON.
- Ability to debug server-side API calls, and contribute to the design of best-practice RESTful APIs.
- Advanced knowledge of Linux/Unix and security standards.
- Knowledge/experience using cloud native development such as PCF, AWS, etc.
- Experience with Java performance testing and benchmarking.
- Experience in Database Design, Oracle Databases, strong knowledge of PL/SQL.
- Working Knowledge of tools like Sonar, Dynatrace, GIT, ALM, CI (Jenkins)/CD, Splunk.
- Understanding of Web/Application servers like Websphere 8, Apache Tomcat.
- Ability to be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and able to function under pressure in an independent environment along with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.
- Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written - and strong relationship, collaboration skills and organizational skills.
- Ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies, frameworks and tools and support multiple concurrent activities and to interface with external / internal resources.
- Experience using the Agile Methodology.
- Ability to deal with pressure situation without compromising the processes.
- Result oriented, self-driven and go-getter abilities.
**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.

**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
Job Description Summary
Overview
Be part of the Operations & Technology Fraud Products team developing new capabilities for MasterCard's Decision Management Platform, which serves as the core for multiple business solutions to combat fraud and validate cardholder identity. Our patented Java-based platform processes billions of transactions per month in tens of milliseconds using a multi-tiered, message-oriented approach for high performance and availability.
- Would you like to develop industry leading solutions for fighting fraud?
- Are you motivated by speeding business solutions to market?
- Do you want to innovate, using cutting edge technologies on challenging business problems?
Role
This role involves working with a team of talented developers to develop high performance, high volume solutions. You will be responsible for:
- Lead day to day systems development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market.
- Accountable for full systems development life cycle including creating high quality requirements documents, use-cases, design and other technical artifacts including but not limited to detailed test strategy/test design, performance benchmarking, release rollout and deployment plans, contingency/back-out plans, feasibility study, cost and time analysis and detailed estimates.
- Collaborate with Architects, fellow Leads, Developers, Business Analysts & Product Owners in Dublin & other Mastercard locations.
- Develop high-quality, secure, scalable and maintainable Java-based software solutions.
- Apply best practices for automated testing, automated code quality, automated delivery & automated monitoring.
- Mentor the senior & junior engineers on your team through sound technical advice, UML documentation & code reviews.
- Assist with troubleshooting production incidents & channel learnings back into the development stream to mitigate future customer impact.
- Participate in PoCs (Proof of Concept) and help the Department with selection of Vendor Solutions, Technologies, Methodologies and Frameworks.
- Collaborate with vendor resources for support of products.
- Conduct brownbag sessions on new and upcoming technologies, methodologies and application appropriate frameworks.
- Actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.
- Perform Quality Inspections and Walkthroughs throughout the SDLC including Requirements Review, Design Review, Code Review and Security Review to ensure compliance with Mastercard and PCI standards.
- Work as part of a co-located Agile SCRUM team.
All About You
- Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and have the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment.
- Must provide the necessary skills to have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.
- Possesses strong communication skills -- both verbal and written - and strong relationship, collaborative skills and organizational skills.
- Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team.
- Deep knowledge of software development processes including agile processes and test driven development.
- Experience with the design and development of complex, multi-tier software solutions.
- Essential Skills required:
○ A wide breadth and depth of technical experience using Java/JEE
○ Strong Linux and shell scripting
○ Oracle & PL/SQL and advanced SQL scripting
○ Spring Framework (including Spring Boot)
○ J2EE Web Application/Web Services (e.g. with JBoss and/or Apache Tomcat)
○ Web Services - REST/XML/JSON
- Desirable Skills:
○ Messaging - MQ and JMS
○ Experience integrating vendor and open source products into an overall system
○ Experience working with containerised environments, such as Kubernetes/OpenShift/CloudFoundry
○ Experience with integration frameworks such as Apache Camel/Spring Integration
○ Experience with monitoring service performance
○ Experience with visual design tools (Visio, Confluence Gliffy, etc.)
**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.

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality.
Cadence customers are the world's most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, aerospace industrial and health.
At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
Job Title: Lead Software Engineer (Agentic AI)
Location: Cork, Ireland or Cambridge UK
Reports to: Software Engineering Group Director
Job Overview:
We are seeking a software engineer to join our team responsible for developing and maintaining Agentic AI applications in the digital verification domain. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of computational software, hardware verification and artificial intelligence, helping to shape the future of Cadence's innovative solutions.
Job Responsibilities:
+ Design and development of AI systems and AI features within Cadence's suite of verification tools.
+ Identify and evaluate opportunities to apply AI to solve very hard real-world engineering problems.
+ Effectively communicate and educate other engineers in the theory and best practices of the application of AI.
+ Evaluate and select AI algorithms and tools appropriate for specific problems.
+ Perform statistical analysis and tuning to ensure implemented algorithms are producing accurate results.
+ Reporting and documenting on AI processes and results.
+ Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging to ensure high-quality, reliable software
+ Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies in AI
Job Qualifications:
+ BSc in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field plus 4+ years of C/C++, Java or Python software development experience,
+ Or M.Sc plus 2+ years of experience in implementing ML models and applications,
+ Or PhD in a relevant area.
+ Strong understanding of various Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning algorithms and techniques.
+ Extensive experience in building AI based applications
+ Strong understanding of Software Development best practices and in OO Design principles and patterns.
+ Very strong competency in mathematics, statistics, data structures and algorithms.
+ A penchant for finding outstanding solutions to very difficult problems.
+ Excellent communication skills and collaboration capabilities.
+ Ability to work in a diverse/multi-cultural environment.
Additional Skills/Preferences:
+ Experience with Large Language Models
+ Familiarity with prompt engineering techniques
+ Experience or understanding of electronic design.
+ Experience developing in a Linux environment.
+ Experience with version control tools such as Git.
+ Experience dealing with customers & external stakeholders.
+ Strong presentation skills.
Work Arrangements
+ Hybrid working model with 4 in-office days expected
+ Opportunities for collaboration with global teams
Why Join Cadence?
+ Work with cutting-edge AI technology that impacts the development of next-generation products
+ Collaborate with industry experts and thought leaders in computational software
+ Professional development opportunities and clear career progression paths
+ Inclusive workplace culture that values diversity of thought and innovation
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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 Settlement Program provides vital systems and services to the Mastercard Treasury and Finance team in support of global payments/customer funds movement, treasury operations, liquidity, foreign exchange, risk management and capital management. We are directly responsible for moving billions of dollars each day between our customers. We are an agile development organization with teams located in both St. Louis, Missouri, Dublin, Ireland and Pune, India.
Role:
Overview
- 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
Responsibilities
- Own complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution
- Write code to build and enhance applications/services and promote code-reviews, code scanning, and other standard development practices to deliver high-quality artifacts to production.
- Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements
- Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners
- Identify opportunities and build roadmaps to enhance primary service/function
- Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed.
- Drive seamless integration across all connected services to meet end-user expectations
- Drive blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings
- Introduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines
- Advocate for engineering principles outside of current organization/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 one's accomplishments
- Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar
- Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence
- Encourage staff to share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity
About You:
- Has ability to write secure code in three or more languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, C, C++, SQL)
- Familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management
- Has skills in building applications using open frameworks to achieve reuse and reduce development times (e.g., Spring Boot, Steeltoe, Angular, DXP, others)
- Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to write interoperable and performant code
- Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors
- Has skills to document and coach team on the development practices and coding guidelines (e.g., branching, peer reviews, library use, logging, scanning rules, test-driven development, error handling)
- Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading, all from the gang of four) to implement efficient code
- Has skills to undertake a technical review of code across applications and their dependencies to look for anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring
- Understands and elaborates technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritization discussions with stakeholders to improve the run experience
- Understands system architecture to plan for platform and infrastructure capacity (e.g., database, compute, network, storage) and drives the dependency prioritization to reduce the delivery lead time
- Has skills to understand customer journeys and ensure a good customer experience by continuously reducing mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for incidents and ensuring high availability (99.95% as a starting point)
- Has skills to simplify deployment and eliminate software and infrastructure snowflakes using standardized platforms, ephemeral instances, and automation
- Has skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD using industry-standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, AWS/Azure pipelines, XL Release, others)
- Able to configure rules and build automation for code with vulnerability scanning and software composition analysis using standard tools (e.g., Sonar, Checkmarx, Nexus, JFrog XRay, Veracode, others)
- Has skills to define, organize, and report on test runs for major, minor, and hotfix releases (including unit, component level, system level, customer journeys, past customer issues, and regulatory controls)
- Has skills to conduct various performance tests (e.g., load, spike, breakpoint, endurance) to Understands application/service limits and behaviors
**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.

**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
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.
Customer Data Management is a team of high performing, co-located individuals representing different functional roles with all the necessary skills to create enterprise capabilities for Customer Data.
Responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions
Develops requirements for new applications and customization's, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
Role:
We're looking for a hands-on and visionary Lead Software Engineer to shape the technical direction of our platforms and applications. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on solving complex problems, mentoring high-performing teams, and delivering scalable, data-driven solutions that make a real impact.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and lead the technical strategy for applications, architecture, and development processes.
- Drive innovation in analytics and scalable application design.
- Contribute directly to product implementation while empowering your team.
- Build and maintain analytics and data models for high-performance systems.
- Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies and methodologies.
- Lead with agility-adapt quickly and guide your team through change.
- Mentor and coach a cross-functional engineering team to deliver high-quality, well-tested code.
- Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Collaborate across teams and business units to solve complex technical challenges.
- Partner with Product Managers and Designers to define road maps, scope features, and plan releases.
- Ensure solutions meet customer needs while scaling for future growth.
What You Bring:
- 10+ years of engineering experience in agile production environments.
- Proven track record in designing and implementing complex full-stack features.
- Strong proficiency in object-oriented programming, preferably Java/Spring.
- Experience with Git, Jenkins, RESTful APIs, and JSON-based services.
- Solid background in SQL/NoSQL databases and performance tuning.
- Expertise in building and deploying data-driven applications and pipelines at scale in Java.
- Strong data engineering foundation with knowledge of pipelines, architecture, and infrastructure.
Bonus Skills:
- Experience with cloud-native development and microservices.
- Familiarity with Kafka, Zookeeper, and enterprise security protocols.
- Proficiency in automated E2E and unit testing frameworks.
- Experience with monitoring and alerting tools like Splunk.
Core Strengths:
- Technologically curious and eager to learn new tools and frameworks.
- Proven ability to mentor and grow engineering talent.
- Customer-first mindset with a passion for solving analytical problems.
- Strong collaboration skills across diverse teams and geographies.
- Self-motivated, creative, and thrives in agile, fast-paced environments.
- Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Commitment to corporate security responsibilities.
Hybrid role with 3 days in Office a week
**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.

**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
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 Enterprise and Risk Compliance Technology team is looking for a Lead Software Engineer, to lead and manage our the Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) area by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the internal partners experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.
Role
In this role, you will:
- Partner with internal business partners in gathering, mapping business requirements, designing, provide technical guidance in delivering the solutions and the upgrades.
- Identify opportunities to improve user experience, solve problems and provide support to end users.
- Take responsibility for driving the maturation of the platform
- Liaison between business partners and vendor professional services - ensuring the team is maturing to next level at every instance
- Should have the strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and deep understanding of best development standards
- Be able to understand and demonstrate deep knowledge of GRC platforms
- Provide guidance to the team ensuring the business deliverables are met on time
- Engage with cross functional teams for designing and delivering new solutions & integrations
- Drive efficiencies by identifying areas for improvements - like automation and process improvements
- Identify impediments upfront and provide solutions to mitigate the delivery risk
- Strong communication skills and able to articulate complex scenarios to stakeholders
- Able to work with teams across geographies building rapport and bonding
All About You
- Familiarity with integrating enterprise data into data lakes, ensuring scalable data ingestion, storage, and governance practices
- Experience leveraging AI/ML models for predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and intelligent automation within enterprise systems
- Proven experience in integrating complex systems and applications across cloud and on-premises environments, including APIs, middleware, and third-party platforms
- Intermediate to advanced programming experience in HTML, XML, JSP, SQL, and JavaScript
- Excellent oral and written communication skills - ability to engage with business & technical stakeholders and engineering senior leaders
- Strong delivery experience working with teams of skilled developers and cross-functional teams, while identifying and removing impediments to ensure team success
- Proven ability to identify improvement opportunities - both technical and process-oriented
- Skilled in guiding senior software engineers in resolving complex technical problems
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, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
**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.

**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
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:
Mastercard Services enables customers across industries and geographies to make smarter decisions and reach better outcomes with a tailored portfolio of solutions beyond the transaction. If you thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment, value creativity and technical excellence, and are eager to make a meaningful impact, this is the role for you.
Mastercard Connect team is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to accelerate the development of our global solutions. The goal of the Mastercard Connect team to build products that drive Smarter Decisions and Better Outcomes for customers, leveraging in-house and 3rd party assets and capabilities effectively to maximize ROI for the program.
Engineers work in small, flexible teams. Every team member contributes to designing, building, and testing features. The range of work you will encounter varies from building intuitive, responsive UIs to designing backend data models, architecting data flows, and beyond. There are no rigid organizational structures, and each team uses processes that work best for its members and projects.
Position Responsibilities:
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will:
Lead strategic technical direction for applications, architectures, and development processes.
Lead and push the boundaries of analytics and powerful, scalable applications
Act as a key contributor to product implementation while empowering your team
Build and maintain analytics and data models to enable performant and scalable products.
Champion innovation by exploring and adopting new technologies and methodologies.
Lead with an agile mindset, adapting to changes quickly and guiding your team to pivot when needed.
Coach, mentor, and develop a cross-functional engineering team to deliver high-quality solutions and well-tested code
Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
Collaborate across teams and business units to solve complex technical problems and ensure alignment.
Partner with Product Managers and Customer Experience Designers to define roadmaps, scope features, and plan releases.
Ensure projects meet customer demands while scaling platform solutions for future growth.
Ideal Candidate Qualifications:
10+ years of engineering experience in an agile production environment.
Experience leading the design and implementation of complex features in full-stack applications.
Proficiency with object-oriented languages, preferably Java/ Spring.
Proficiency with modern front-end frameworks, preferably React with Redux, Typescript.
Fluent in the use of Git, Jenkins.
Solid experience with RESTful APIs and JSON/SOAP based API.
Solid experience with SQL, Multi-threading, Message Queuing.
Experience in building and deploying production-level data-driven applications and data processing. workflows/pipelines and/or implementing machine learning systems at scale in Java, Scala, or Python and deliver analytics involving all phases.
Data engineering or data science background with strong understanding of data pipelines, architecture, infrastructure, and management.
Desirable Capabilities :
Hands on experience of cloud native development using microservices.
Hands on experience on Kafka, Zookeeper.
Knowledge of enterprise application security protocols and concepts.
Expertise with automated E2E and unit testing frameworks.
Knowledge of Splunk or other alerting and monitoring solutions.
Core Competencies:
Strong technologist eager to learn new technologies and frameworks.
Experience coaching and mentoring junior teammates.
Customer-centric development approach
Passion for analytical / quantitative problem solving
Ability to identify and implement improvements to team development processes
Strong collaboration skills with experience collaborating across many people, roles, and geographies
Motivation, creativity, self-direction, and desire to thrive on small project teams
Superior academic record with a degree in Computer Science or related technical field
Strong written and verbal English communication skills
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.
**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.

**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
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Lead Engineer to join our Decision Enrichments team within the Decision Management Programme. This pivotal role involves leading a team of both senior and junior Java developers in an agile (SAFe) environment. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with other Leads across the platform, Technical Program Managers (TPMs), Product Managers (PM-Ts), and Quality Engineers (QEs) embedded within the team and at the platform level.
Role and Responsibilities
As a Lead Engineer, you will:
Lead and Inspire: Guide a team of talented engineers to develop high-performance, high-volume Java applications, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
Collaborate Effectively: Work closely with technical architects and product owners to define and prioritize features and user stories, ensuring alignment with business goals.
Drive Quality and Scalability: Provide direction to the team to develop high-quality, secure, and scalable software solutions based on technical requirements specifications and design artifacts, within expected timeframes and budgets.
Evaluate Solutions: Assess technical solution alternatives to meet current and future business needs, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.
Manage Projects: Collaborate with project teams to meet scheduled due dates, identify emerging issues, and recommend effective solutions.
Ensure Compliance: Ensure the team adheres to MasterCard Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes, maintaining high standards of software quality.
Enhance Processes: Contribute ideas to improve standards and process efficiency, actively seeking opportunities to enhance the team's workflow.
Support Metrics: Facilitate the collection and reporting of project and software metrics to track progress and identify areas for improvement.
All About You
To be successful in this role, you should have:
Educational Background: A Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, or Engineering.
-Extensive Experience: 10-13 years of experience working on scalable, multi-threaded software products developed using core Java, Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Hibernate/JPA, Maven/Gradle, PL/SQL, Unix/Shell scripts, and deployed on Tomcat/PCF.
-Leadership Skills: Proven experience leading one or more scrum teams of software engineers, providing technical direction and resolving technical blockers.
-Technical Expertise: Hands-on experience working with RESTFUL APIs and knowledge of Cloud Native Development such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) and AWS.
-CI/CD Proficiency: Practical knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
-Test Automation: Working knowledge of Test Automation Frameworks and related tools such as Selenium, Rest-assured, TestNG, and Postman.
-Design Patterns: A solid understanding of Java/microservices design patterns and common industry-standard best programming practices.
-Innovative Thinking: Ability to innovate and develop new approaches to complex design problems.
-Collaborative Environment: Experience working in a dynamic and collaborative work environment, making independent decisions and contributing to team discussions.
-Adaptability: Ability to learn and deploy new technologies as needed, ensuring the team stays ahead of industry trends.
-Scalability Focus: Experience in building scalable, maintainable applications that meet global standards.
-Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines.
-Agile Methodology: Proven experience using Agile Methodology and working with cross-functional teams, actively contributing to discussions at retrospectives and elaboration sessions.
Join us in building world-class solutions on a global scale and making a significant impact in the Decision Management Programme.
**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.