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 is seeking a Technical Lead to join the Cardholder Services, Global Benefits team in Pune, India. The team develops next-generation products and services that enable cardholders to securely and efficiently access and use benefits across digital channels. Role As a Technical Lead, you will provide hands-on technical leadership across the design, development, integration, testing, and delivery of CHS applications. You will lead technical design and architecture decisions across Java/Spring Boot services, React/Angular applications, APIs, databases, event-driven integrations, and cloud platforms. You will drive engineering best practices, technical evaluations and PoCs, resolve complex technical issues, and ensure solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and production-ready. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and QE teams and provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineers. Skills / Requirements Strong hands-on experience in Java, J2EE, Spring, and Spring Boot Strong hands-on experience with React and/or Angular Deep experience with REST APIs, Web Services, and microservices architecture Strong experience with Oracle/SQL, including query optimization and data validation Experience with Kafka or other event-driven/messaging platforms Strong understanding of distributed systems, design patterns, scalability, and resiliency Experience with CI/CD, Git, code reviews, and automated deployment pipelines Experience with Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, containers, or equivalent cloud platforms Knowledge of API gateways, authentication/authorization, and secure service-to-service integrations Strong debugging, root-cause analysis, and production-support experience Ability to lead technical design, architecture reviews, PoCs, and complex technical initiatives Strong technical leadership, communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills Good to Have Playwright and/or Selenium automation experience API and UI test automation experience TDD, performance testing, and service virtualization Batch/file-processing and data platforms such as Hadoop/Ozone Data replication and active-active resiliency concepts Payments, Benefits, or FinTech domain experience Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent relevant education and experience. 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.