Leads the design, development, integration, testing, and delivery of cardholder services applications. Provides hands-on technical leadership across Java and Spring Boot services, React or Angular applications, APIs, databases, event-driven integrations, and cloud platforms. Drives architecture decisions, technical evaluations, scalability, security, resiliency, CI/CD, production support, and engineering best practices while mentoring engineers and collaborating across Product, Engineering, Architecture, and QE teams.
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:
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.
Mastercard Pune, Mahārāshtra, IND Office
Mastercard Pune Tech Hub Office
Poona Club Road, Pune, Maharashtra, India, 411001
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