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Lead Software Engineer (Java)
Mastercard International Incorporated · 🇺🇸 2 Locations
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 76 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 286 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Mastercard International Incorporated paid sponsored hires in similar roles10 certified filings for “Senior Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in MO: $115k–$138k, median $127k. Most were filed at wage level II (50%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Mastercard International Incorporated
The US Department of Labor certified 76 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 286 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 (Java) Overview This role sits within Mastercard's Open Finance Europe – responsible for building and operating scalable API connectivity to financial institutions across Europe. Mastercard Developers (https://developer.mastercard.com) is the single gateway for Mastercard partners to access a diverse range of payment, data, loyalty, and security APIs. The team is responsible for delivering an experience that ensures developers can quickly find the right API, assess its technical capabilities and integrate it into new and innovative solutions. We are looking for versatile and customer obsessed engineers to join our team. You will play a key role in designing and developing next generation digital products and services in Mastercard for a global audience. • Would you enjoy collaborating with your team to design new features and solutions in an evolving Enterprise environment? • Do you have a strong background in developing and delivering high volume web services? • Are you passionate about delivering high quality, high performing and highly extensible software? • Are you as excited about the value of what you design and build for your customers as you are by the journey to deliver it? • Do you want to be part of one of the most exciting global initiatives in Mastercard right now? Role • Design and develop technical solutions for global customers (internal and external) • Continually ideate, scope, develop, deliver, test and iterate features for the constantly evolving and growing API Platform. • Contribute to Mastercard Open Source projects that offer API Client signing and encryption libraries. • Ensure appropriate levels of automation are adopted (build, deploy, configure, validate, monitor). • Liaise with other global technology, data, operations teams to execute. • Act as subject matter expert for API Platform and services to support customer integrations on occasion All About You • Strong Java or Kotlin skills, including extensive experience building robust, scalable, and maintainable backend systems using SpringBoot. • Experience in architecting and delivering complex web applications, with multiple examples of systems where you served as the lead engineer, driving both architectural decisions and hands-on implementation • You care about the technical architecture and design, ensuring that the solution is flexibly designed, performs efficiently and highly scalable. • You actively contribute to code and stay hands on, conducting design and code reviews, mentoring engineers, and ensuring engineering excellence across the team • Proven experience designing and implementing cloud‑native applications, preferably on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) or other cloud platforms. • Experienced working in an Agile environment with a global team that supports frequent production releases. • Experience in designing and delivering high standard APIs, implementing API security models. • Frontend development experience is a bonus. 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 info