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[Remote] Lead Software Engineer F/T

Remote Full-time Now Hiring

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mastercard is a global payments technology company that provides secure, simple, smart, and accessible digital payment solutions. The Lead Software Engineer will own complex cross-service problems, develop and enhance software applications, drive architecture and delivery improvements, and provide technical leadership across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • Supervises one Senior Software Engineer and two Software Engineer II

Skills

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

Benefits

  • May be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role.
  • Insurance, including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, and 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.
  • Option to work from home-based office.

Company Overview

  • Mastercard is a financial network that processes payments between banks and cardholders. It was founded in 1966, and is headquartered in Purchase, New York, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.mastercard.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Mastercard has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 97 in 2026, 540 in 2025, 316 in 2024. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.