Lead Software Engineer

Location: Pune, India

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

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

• 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.