Mastercard

Mastercard

Lead Software Engineer

Atlanta, Georgia, USA · Part-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
PythonJavaReactNext.jsAngularDjangoSpringBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewGitAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDJenkinsDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringRESTAccessibilityTest AutomationLeadershipMentoring

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Sponsors this role100
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds40
Fits your clock70

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Mastercard Technologies, LLC obtained a prevailing wage determination for Software Developers in O'FALLON, MISSOURI on 2026-06-18. No matching green-card filing appears in our data yet. The determination expires in 10 days (2026-09-15), and a green-card filing must follow before then or the employer starts over.+1 more active determination on file

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About the role

  • The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.
  • Establish and champion engineering standards, development methodologies, code quality, testing, security, and operational best practices across the team and broader engineering organization.
  • Proven experience designing and delivering backend services and RESTful APIs, including authentication/authorization, business logic, data access, third-party integrations, API versioning, backward compatibility, and robust error handling.

Responsibilities

  • The Commercial Solution team is looking for a Lead Software Engineer-Full Stack to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving.
  • Provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering expertise in the design, development, and delivery of highly scalable, resilient, and secure full-stack applications aligned with enterprise technology strategies.
  • Serve as a technical mentor and thought leader, coaching engineers, providing architectural guidance, conducting design and code reviews, and fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
  • Drive technical initiatives and continuous improvement, proactively identifying opportunities to modernize platforms, improve engineering efficiency, and deliver measurable business and customer impact.
  • Strong software architecture and system design experience, including defining system boundaries, API contracts, data models, and non-functional requirements related to scalability, availability, performance, resilience, and security.
  • Experience championing quality engineering and accessibility, including automated testing, CI/CD quality gates, responsive design, and WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards.
  • Own and influence end-to-end architecture and technical direction, driving the adoption of modern engineering practices, design patterns, and technologies across the application lifecycle.
  • Lead the development of complex, high-impact solutions across the front-end and back-end, ensuring performance, scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Partner with Product, UX, Data & Analytics, DevOps/SRE, and other technology stakeholders to translate business objectives into innovative and sustainable technical solutions.

Requirements

  • Strong knowledge of cloud and DevOps engineering practices, including Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Jenkins, CI/CD, and cloud-native application development and deployment using AWS and/or Azure.
  • Strong understanding of secure-by-design development practices, including threat-aware development, dependency management, secrets management, input validation, and enterprise security standards.

Skills

  • Essential Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Compensation

  • In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions dependi

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