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Lead Software Engineer

Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, 84101, USA
Listing for: Mastercard
Full Time, Part Time, Remote/Work from Home position
Listed on 2026-09-04
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Engineer, Java Developer, Full Stack Developer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 140000 - 231000 USD Yearly USD 140000.00 231000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Lead Software Engineer F/T

Lead Software Engineer

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.

Role:

  • 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:

Position requires a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or related and five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in job offered or as a Programmer Analyst, System Test Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer, or related.

Qualifying experience must include at least four (4) years with each of the following:
Enterprise Software solutions;
JavaScript;
Node.js;
Angular;
Type Script; OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT; NGRX, RxJS, Angular, or similar;
Java/J2EE;
Spring, Spring MVC and Spring Boot; ORM frameworks – Hibernate and JPA (Java Persistence API), JDBC;
Design Patterns (service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, dependency injection, lazy loading, all from the gang of four);
System Architecture;
Gitlab, Jenkins, AWS/Azure pipelines, or similar;
Sonar, Checkmarx, Nexus, or similar;
Relational Databases (MySQL);
Containerized Applications (Docker and K8s).

Supervises one Senior Software Engineer and two Software Engineer II.

Option to work from home-based office exists. May reside anywhere within the United States.

Corporate Security Responsibility:

  • 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 and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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 of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire;

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; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges:

Salt Lake City, Utah: $140,000 - $231,000 USD

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