Lead Software Engineer – Full Stack

About the role

The Commercial Solution team at Mastercard is seeking a Lead Software Engineer – Full Stack to drive the customer‑experience strategy. You will combine technical leadership with hands‑on development to build highly scalable, resilient, and secure applications that support Mastercard’s global payments ecosystem.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and hands‑on engineering in designing, developing, and delivering full‑stack applications aligned with enterprise technology strategies.
• Own and influence end‑to‑end architecture, promoting modern engineering practices, design patterns, and technologies throughout the application lifecycle.
• Lead development of complex front‑end and back‑end solutions ensuring performance, scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, Data & Analytics, DevOps/SRE, and other stakeholders to translate business objectives into innovative technical solutions.
• Establish and champion engineering standards, development methodologies, code quality, testing, security, and operational best practices.
• Mentor engineers, conduct design and code reviews, and foster a culture of engineering excellence.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to modernize platforms and increase engineering efficiency.

Required profile

• Passionate about the customer‑experience journey.
• Highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, with an entrepreneurial mindset.

Required skills