Lead Software Engineer
About The Position
The Accelerators group under the Business & Market Insights - Platform Engineering program at Mastercard is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive high-impact technical initiatives that accelerate delivery, improve platform scalability, and enable innovation across the organization. The Accelerators group is leading from the front in making meaningful contributions that allow the B&MI organization to go “faster.” This team is intentionally agile and flexible, not defined by a single technology stack, domain, or rigid process. Instead, it is composed of self-starters and self-unblockers who focus on delivering outcomes while continuously improving how those outcomes shape the next phase of platform evolution. If you're seeking an opportunity to impact a business unit across platform engineering, DevOps, software engineering, and process transformation—while also mentoring and growing others—this position is for you. This is a hybrid role based in Arlington, VA, requiring three days per week onsite.
Requirements
- Extensive experience as a Software Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer, or Platform Engineer in fast-paced, collaborative environments.
- Strong full-stack development experience across modern stacks (e.g., .NET, Java, React, JavaScript, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or similar technologies)
- Proven experience designing and building scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Strong experience in cloud environments (AWS and/or Azure), with hands-on experience building and deploying cloud-native applications.
- Deep DevOps and platform engineering experience, including CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and deployment automation.
- Experience with API management, gateway technologies, secrets management, and infrastructure tooling.
- Strong understanding of Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) and ability to improve engineering workflows end-to-end.
- Experience working with large-scale data systems, including ETL pipelines and high-volume data processing environments.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and implement engineering efficiency improvements across teams or platforms.
- Strong interest in AI-enabled engineering, including workflow automation, developer productivity, and SDLC augmentation.
- Experience working in Agile environments with cross-functional teams and iterative delivery models.
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives, manage complex engineering efforts, or drive platform-level improvements.
- Experience mentoring or coaching engineers and contributing to technical team growth.
- Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, and ability to operate effectively in ambiguous or evolving environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Equivalent practical experience will be considered.
Responsibilities
- Make foundational changes to the CI/CD pipelines and practices at Mastercard to improve reliability, address common use cases, and deliver market facing solutions faster
- Develop reusable engineering patterns, frameworks, and tools that improve developer experience and accelerate delivery across teams.
- Drive modernization and optimization of SDLC/PDLC practices through intentional AI adoption and AI-first engineering initiatives.
- Identify and implement process improvements that increase engineering velocity, quality, and operational efficiency.
- Mentor and guide engineers across Mastercard’s engineering community, promoting best practices and technical excellence.
- Collaborate across platform, product, and engineering teams to align technical solutions with business objectives.
- Contribute to architectural decisions that enable scalability, resilience, and long-term platform evolution.
- Support DevOps and platform engineering initiatives to improve system reliability, automation, and deployment efficiency.
Benefits
- insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
- flexible spending account and health savings account
- 16 weeks of new parent leave
- up to 20 days of bereavement leave
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
- 25 days of vacation time
- 5 personal days
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
