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

Lead Software Engineer F/T

Overview
Responsible for the analysis, design, and development of software solutions.

Role
• Provides technical leadership to projects including architecting and creating a low-level design, working with other software engineers to drive the detailed design and implementation of highly complex applications, interfaces and integrations.
• Applies technical capabilities within own discipline to coach and develop more junior software engineers.
• Integrates at an enterprise level using third-party middleware or messaging products, or by designing and implementing custom interfaces and mapping for those interfaces.
• Responsible for performance engineering of software solutions in scope, and providing functional guidance, advice, and/or training to team members.
• Researches and evaluates tools and acquisition opportunities to support cross-domain needs.
• Focuses on using our Blockchain tech stack(s) to solve well-known problems or opportunities within payment and adjacent industries.
• Drives and fully participates hands-on in the product life-cycle execution, from idea generation to implementation to market assessment to early-stage commercialization.
• Scopes, develops, delivers, tests and iterates new innovative solutions.
• Liaises with technology, regional and commercial teams to execute.

About You
• Position requires a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related and five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in job offered or as a Software Engineer, IT Engineer, Software Developer, or related.
• Qualifying experience must include at least one (1) year with each of the following: Java, Tomcat, Spring, Spring Boot, Shell Scripting, JSON, Docker, Junit, CI/CD, Jenkins.
• Rate of pay: $200,777.00 – 277,000.00 / year
• Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training and/or experience.
• Telecommuting and/or working from home may be permissible pursuant to company policies.
• To apply, please click the “Apply for job” link above, or send resume to recruiter Rachel Van Meter, [email protected], 4250 North Fairfax Dr, 9th Fl, Arlington VA 22201. Reference MC213-2025.
Incentives offered through MasterCard’s Employee Referral Program Apply to this position. For more information, please visit our Employee Referral Site or see employee handbook.

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• 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.

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 depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges

New York City, New York: $168,000 - $277,000 USD