Lead Software Engineer

Mastercard

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Location
O'Fallon, MO
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$140,000–$231,000 / yr
Posted
41 days ago
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About Mastercard

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, processing transactions between financial institutions and merchants using its extensive network of credit, debit, and prepaid card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services

Mastercard currently has 150 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $122,000–$207,000 across 142 roles with salary data.

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The Lead Software Engineer joins the Mastercard Authentication Program to develop and deliver best-of-breed authentication products for e-commerce transactional use cases. This role involves designing and developing secure, scalable solutions for globally distributed customer-facing products, specifically focusing on ID Check, Token Authentication Service, and Token Authentication Framework. Key responsibilities include building services and APIs, conducting code reviews, mentoring engineers, and driving advanced testing strategies like chaos engineering. The candidate will utilize a technical stack including Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, React, and Angular. Core infrastructure tools include Kubernetes, Docker, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and Redis. The role addresses the business problem of securing consumer authentication for in-store and e-commerce transactions, ensuring high-performance system behavior through data structures, algorithms, and robust microservices architecture.

Skills

Java J2EE Microservices RESTful APIs Spring Boot Spring Cloud Hibernate React Angular JavaScript HTML/CSS Kubernetes Docker Pivotal Cloud Foundry PostgreSQL Oracle SQL Server Redis CI/CD Jenkins Maven Git Sonar Gatling OAuth OIDC JWT Chaos Engineering

What you'll do

  • Design and develop secure, reliable, and scalable solutions for globally distributed customer-facing products.
  • Build services, APIs, and write unit, integration, and acceptance tests while remaining hands-on with code.
  • Drive architectural design for dependent services, service interactions, and system policies.
  • Research and evaluate technical solution alternatives using current and emerging technologies to meet business needs.
  • Lead advanced testing strategies including automation, chaos engineering, and resilience testing to validate system behavior.
  • Conduct and lead code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards, security best practices, and performance optimization.
  • Mentor engineers at all levels to improve software engineering craftsmanship and promote clean code principles.
  • Collaborate with business owners to architect and deliver new services for new products and bundles.

What we're looking for

  • Hands-on experience designing solutions and full-stack development in modern technologies for large-scale enterprise systems.
  • Strong experience building microservices in Java and developing UI components using React or Angular.
  • Experience deploying applications via CI/CD pipelines, Docker containers, and Kubernetes.
  • Working knowledge of application security principles including encryption/decryption, PKI, hashing, JWT, OAuth, OIDC, and zero trust.
  • Experience designing systems with non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, availability, and extensibility.
  • Experience designing and executing automated testing strategies including unit, integration, and system testing.
  • Experience leading advanced operational and failure testing practices such as chaos engineering.
  • Experience with Agile and modern SDLC practices including Scrum, Kanban, CI/CD, DevOps, and Quality Engineering.

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