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.

Lead Software Engineer

The Business Experimentation and Optimization (BE&O) teams within Mastercard's Services organization are building industry-leading software that empowers business users around the world to make data-driven decisions through advanced analytics and experimentation. As we expand our product offerings and modernize our technology stack, we are reimagining how we deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions to our clients. We are seeking a hands‑on, technically strong Lead Software Engineer to drive the architecture, design, and development of our next-generation experimentation platform.

In this role, you will help define and evolve system architecture and non-functional requirements-such as scalability, performance, security, and reliability-ensuring our solutions meet the highest engineering standards. As a technical leader, you will guide cross-functional teams in building scalable services, APIs, and analytical capabilities that power our platform, leveraging technologies like Databricks and cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.

You will collaborate closely with your immediate team and partner with other development teams across programs to align on shared goals, define cross-cutting initiatives, and deliver cohesive, enterprise-grade solutions. You will also mentor engineers, work across global time zones, and champion engineering excellence through best practices in software development, observability, and continuous delivery. We are seeking passionate and talented technologists who share our vision of empowering customers to make smarter, data-driven decisions.

Join us and help shape the future growth of our team.

At Mastercard Services, you will lead the development of cutting-edge, analytics-driven products that help businesses worldwide seize the most value from their data.

As a Lead Software Development Engineer, you will:

• Build advanced, cloud-native services and modern frameworks, enabling some of the world's largest organizations to make critical and data-driven decisions.
• Lead the development of scalable, high-performance applications by pushing the boundaries of our data analytics capabilities and implementing robust services and APIs on AWS or Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Drive the technical vision and roadmap for a suite of web-based data and analytics applications, integrating new technologies and modern architectural approaches to continuously enhance product capabilities and support client decision-making.
• This will be done in close partnership with other lead engineers across the organization to ensure alignment, scalability, and long-term platform evolution.
• Serve as the team's technical leader, making key architecture and design decisions, conducting design/code reviews, and ensuring best engineering practices (clean code, testing, security, performance) for high-quality software development.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and coordinate development efforts across global teams in different time zones, demonstrating outstanding communication and teamwork skills to deliver features effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Architect, modernize, and optimize our systems to handle rapidly growing data volumes and user bases, leveraging a service architecture and cloud scalability (AWS/Azure) to ensure robust, reliable performance as we scale globally.
• Mentor and guide other engineers, providing technical mentorship and fostering a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and technical excellence across the team.

• 8+ years of extensive software engineering experience in an agile…