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Lead Software Engineer
Mastercard International Incorporated · 🌍 Dublin, Ireland
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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 The Business Experimentation and Optimization (BE&O) teams within Mastercard’s Services organization are building industry-leading software that empowers business users around the world to make data-driven decisions through advanced analytics and experimentation. As we expand our product offerings and modernize our technology stack, we are reimagining how we deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions to our clients. We are seeking a hands-on, technically strong Lead Software Engineer to drive the architecture, design, and development of our next-generation experimentation platform. In this role, you will help define and evolve system architecture and non-functional requirements—such as scalability, performance, security, and reliability—ensuring our solutions meet the highest engineering standards. As a technical leader, you will guide cross-functional teams in building scalable services, APIs, and analytical capabilities that power our platform, leveraging technologies like Databricks and cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure. What is the Services organization? The Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, delivering cutting-edge solutions that help our customers grow. Focused on thinking big and scaling rapidly across the globe, this team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse, global customer base. We combine traditional management consulting with rich data assets and in-house technology to provide clients with powerful insights and tools that drive fact-based decision-making. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, our services include consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, business experimentation, and data-informed information and risk management. While specializing in the payments industry, Mastercard Services also partners closely with major retailers, airlines, and other enterprises, leveraging insights drawn from both within and beyond our network. Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is the global technology company behind the world’s fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, and a technology innovation lab. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. Position Responsibilities: At Mastercard Services, you will serve as a senior technical leader and hands-on engineer for BE&O’s next-generation experimentation and analytics platform. As a Lead Software Development Engineer, you will lead through technical influence, architectural judgment, and execution excellence to help modernize our platform and deliver scalable, secure, cloud-native capabilities for global business users. Lead the technical design and delivery of complex, data-intensive software solutions that enable advanced analytics, experimentation, and datadriven decisioning for Mastercard clients. Define and drive technical strategy for modernization initiatives, including evolution of legacy systems toward scalable, cloud-native, API-driven, and service-oriented architectures. Lead system design across multiple levels of detail, including platform architecture, high-level design, de