Lead Software Engineer

Job Summary

Lead Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead one or two squads of senior and junior engineers and own the software development and delivery
• Own complex problems with dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution
• Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners
• Provide development and architecture guidance to team members
• Ensure benchmarks are met on quality, performance, info security and other NFRs
• Guide and mentor teams effectively as per needs.
• Communicate effectively and coordinate with various global groups in MasterCard to ensure success of the projects.
• Lead various initiatives for improving automation, defect metrics and overall quality.

Requirements

• Full Stack Development hands on experience using Java, Springboot tech stack, Microservice Architecture, Messaging/Event Driven Frameworks, CI/CD on a Cloud Native environment
• Experience on System design and Architecture, on multi-tier distributed systems
• Experience using AI tools and ability to explore and adapt to newer skillset
• Key driver/owner for delivering multiple product features on or ahead of schedule. Extensive experience leading the full product development lifecycle including coordinating/shepherding technical design discussions, documentation, comparing & contrasting approaches, tasking out stories, and architecting test plans.
• Strong oral and written communicator with expertise in evangelizing complex ideas/solutions, spanning multiple, often conflicting, requirements. Facilitates discussions amongst technical and business stakeholders across organization and team boundaries to build consensus.
• Drives operational excellence by suggesting improvements to product modules/features using test data, performance data, and production metrics. Leverage testing to verify both functional and non-functional application requirements. Drives efforts to build and maintain lower environments that accurately reflect production.
• Demonstrable expertise with root cause analysis of issues in multi-tier distributed systems, with the ability to prescribe risk-reward balanced short-, mid- and long-term changes, over multiple release cycles.
• Highly regarded mentor. Instills best practices and proactively coaches others to high technical and quality standards. Identifies and sponsors junior teammates for key growth opportunities.
• Extensive experience using enterprise tooling and processes to improve products and processes by proposing changes/enhancements to the full SDLC lifecycle.
• Approaches discussions and problem solving, across organization and team boundaries with differing motivations/priorities, with empathy and a goal of building consensus. Finds way pitches in and lends support where needed. Valuable partner with organization and business partners in all roles and geographies.
• Key technical voice in anticipating, articulating, and evangelizing solutions to technical challenges, spanning org/team boundaries, based on broader industry trends, prioritized based on business needs.

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