Job Title:

Lead Software Engineer (Full Stack): Biometric Authentication

Overview:

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Overview:
Background

The Mastercard Authentication Program owns how consumer authentication works for both in-store and e-commerce transactional use cases. The primary purpose of this role is to develop and deliver best-of-breed authentication products for e-commerce transactional use cases that will drive uptake and penetration for the products and revenue for Mastercard. The authentication products that fall within this role’s responsibilities are ID Check, Token Authentication Service and Token Authentication Framework.

If you want a challenging project that is changing the way people do payments, this is the role for you!


As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for
• Design and develop secure, reliable, and scalable solutions for globally distributed customer facing products
• Support development teams and work with stakeholders, promoting agile development
• Integrate our systems with third-party SaaS products, ensuring seamless data flow and functionality
• Research, create and evaluate technical solution alternatives for the business needs using current and upcoming technologies and frameworks
• They are hands on all the time and collaborate by writing interfaces, tests, unit or acceptance and architecture fitness functions, outside of meeting rooms
• Participate in architectural discussions, code reviews, and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.
• Work with business/product owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles
• Ensure the quality, performance, and security of our applications through testing, optimization, and adherence to best practices.
• Contribute and lead initiatives by engaging and mentoring Engineers at all levels to improve the craftmanship of Software Engineering

Technologies: -


• Microservices architecture and development - Java, Spring boot, RESTful APIs, Open API specification
• Front end development - Javascript, HTML/CSS, using React / Angular / Vue.js frameworks
• Experience working with more than one object-oriented programming languages - C/C++ or Python with flask or Node.js (preferrable)
• Proven experience working with major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and a strong understanding of cloud-based services, with specific expertise in container orchestration using AKS or EKS
• Experience deploying and managing applications in docker containers
• Databases – SQL and NoSQL databases such as Oracle, Mongo, PostgreSQL, Redis
• Secure communication (HTTPS, TLS, OAuth) and security best practices such as data encryption and protection against vulnerabilities

About You


• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with various architectural patterns, including high performance, high availability transaction processing and multi-tiered web applications
• Hands-on experience in designing solutions and full stack development in modern technologies for large enterprise technology platforms and systems
• Hands-on experience in coding Microservices in Java, building UI/UX, frameworks such as React, Angular, spring boot, RDBMS, Oracle and event driven architecture.
• Hands on experience integrating vendor and open-source products into a cohesive system
• Experience in deploying applications using CI/CD pipelines, docker containers & Kubernetes to Cloud platforms is preferred
• Has experience designing and implementing solutions focusing on the non-functional concerns – Performance, Scalability, Availability, Extensibility, Supportability, Usability
• Operate with urgency, fairness and decency to address challenges and solve for new opportunities.
• Strong communicator to maintain internal and external alignment.
• Familiar with cutting edge industry trends and thorough understanding of development methodologies and standards,
• Has skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders
• Experienced in agile and modern SDLC practices: Scrum/Kanban/Continuous Delivery/DevOps/Quality engineering, and the delivery situations they are used for

Good to have:

• Familiarity with the payments industry, payment processing, reporting and data & analytics domain
• Understanding of image processing techniques and computer vision principles is beneficial
• Exposure to trending technologies (AI/ML, IOT, Bot, Quantum Computing) and architectures is very good to have
• Exposure to security best practices for biometric systems, including data encryption, authentication protocols, and vulnerability mitigation.

Our teams and values:
• We work within small collaborative teams consisting of software engineers and product managers
• Our customer’s success is at the core of what we do
• We are diverse and inclusive teams from many backgrounds and with many experiences
• We believe in doing well by doing good through inclusive growth and making ethical and environmentally responsible decisionsTo find US Salary Ranges, visit People Place. Under the Compensation tab, select "Salary Structures." Within the text of "Salary Structures," click on the link "salary structures 2025," through which you will be able to access the salary ranges for each Mastercard job family. For more information regarding US benefits, visit People Place and review the Benefits tab and the Time Off & Leave tab.