Lead Software Engineer

Mastercard•Vancouver, BC

76d•$127,000 - $203,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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 The AI & Decision Engineering Platform powers intelligent, real-time decisioning for Mastercard’s fraud prevention and identity validation solutions. This program enables streaming analytics, governed decision-making, and outcome management with business agility at global scale. Our platform leverages business rules engines, AI-driven decisioning, streaming big data clusters, in-memory data grids, APIs, and intuitive UIs to deliver decisions in milliseconds across billions of transactions worldwide. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing and implementing high-performance, cloud-ready solutions. You’ll mentor team members while remaining hands-on with coding, testing, and design—helping shape the next generation of Mastercard’s decisioning capabilities. This is a hybrid position based in Vancouver, requiring three days on-site per week. Overview • The Decision Management program enables intelligent decision based products through streaming analytics with the ability to govern these decisions and manage their outcomes with business agility. • This program leverages business rules & AI engines, a streaming big data cluster, in memory data grids, APIs, & UIs to deliver real time decisions at global scale • This person will be responsible for mentoring the team as well as stay hands on. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II to join our DMP team in the Vancouver office. • Are you a strong technical engineer with experience working on high-performance applications? • Are you a excited about getting a 360 degree view of the coding world - writing code to develop a piece of code as well as writing code to test it? • Are you passionate about making a difference in this world? • Do you want to be part of a team which helps prevent fraud on every Mastercard transaction in this world?

Requirements

Strong programming skills with deep knowledge of Java.
Excellent skillset in designing and building high IO system with emphasis on security, high availability and resilience
Excellent knowledge of Spring and other frameworks.
Good knowledge of SQL and experience working with Oracle.
Good problem diagnostic and creative problem solving skills.
Strong organizational skills; able to manage multiple tasks within the constraints and timelines determined by business needs.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Dockers, Kubernetes etc.
Experience with Spring frameworks.
Experience in gPRC and load balancing
BS in computer science or a related field preferred.

Responsibilities

Design and implement business critical services
Collaborate with Product, solution architect and other key stakeholders to understand the nature of the problems need to be addressed and come up with end to end solutions
Ensure design documentations meet the highest standard required by Company policies
Apply best development practices to write well designed, maintainable, testable, scalable, and secure code.
Participate in all the Scrum ceremonies.