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Website:
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Company:
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Seniority: Not Applicable
Industries: Marketing Services
Job details:
Mastercard is seeking a Lead Software Engineer/Software Architect for their Merchant Acceptance Program. The role involves designing and architecting scalable, cloud-native microservices-based solutions for global payment systems. The successful candidate will drive overall architecture, design enterprise-grade APIs, ensure high availability and system resiliency, provide technical leadership and mentorship, and collaborate with senior technical and product leaders. The position requires 12+ years of product engineering experience, expertise in microservices architecture, cloud-native technologies (Azure/AWS, Kubernetes), financial systems at global scale, Java/Spring technologies, and strong communication skills.
Overview
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. As the Software Architect for the Mastercard Merchant Acceptance Program, you will bring deep expertise in modern software architecture designed for global scale, high-transaction volume, and cloud-native technologies.
Merchant Acceptance Program consists of products and solutions that aim to increase Mastercard's acceptance footprint and improve the quality of cardholder experience at the point of interaction.
Role
- Drive the overall architecture using deep expertise in microservices-based architectures for the fintech industry
- Ensure solutions use modern cloud-native architecture design principles
- Design enterprise-grade APIs for services that follow Mastercard best practices
- Design and maintain technical blueprints and service descriptions for solutions
- Incorporate high-availability and system resiliency into solutions to maximize uptime and capacity
- Partner with senior technical and product leaders to deliver on designs
- Perform reviews to ensure teams are following architectural designs
- Collaborate with service architects, development teams, operations, and product owners
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams and service architects
- Represent the program as the primary architect and technical advocate with other groups within Mastercard
- Partner with the Architecture and Technology team to leverage best practices in global-scale systems, including on-soil and cloud deployment scenarios
Requirements
- More than 12 years of rich product engineering experience designing scalable software solutions
- Exceptional foundation in Computer Science fundamentals, microservices-based software architecture, and web applications
- Demonstrated experience architecting solutions based on containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies
- Strong system design skills
- Experience architecting and designing high-transaction-volume financial systems that operate at global scale with extreme uptime requirements
- Extensive experience designing and building global-scale back-end microservices using Java, Spring, and Spring Boot
- Deep understanding of storage technologies such as PostgreSQL or SQL Server at massive scale
- Deep experience with cloud-native technologies and best practices, including Azure and AWS
- Experience with automated testing and continuous delivery using Git
- Experience with web technologies including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks such as Angular or React (nice to have)
- Strong desire to collaborate and provide mentorship to technology teams
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable working in an Agile environment focused on continuous improvement
Security Responsibilities
Every person working for or on behalf of Mastercard is responsible for information security. The successful candidate must:
- Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of information being accessed
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines
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