Lead Software Engineer - Java Spring Boot, Kafka and Event-Driven Architecture
Role Overview
Payments Network Technology is seeking a software engineer to design, build, and support secure, scalable, and highly available payment-network solutions using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native engineering practices.
Roles and Responsibilities
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support software services based on technical and functional requirements.
• Build Java and Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, and Kafka-based event-driven integrations.
• Apply object-oriented design, SOLID principles, reusable patterns, and secure coding practices.
• Create unit, component, integration, and regression tests and participate in peer reviews.
• Troubleshoot application, data, messaging, performance, and production issues.
• Contribute to CI/CD, observability, operational readiness, resiliency, and automation.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, testing, operations, and dependent engineering teams.
• Provide technical or product leadership, mentor team members, and drive decisions across multiple workstreams.
Full Job Posting
Roles and Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and support software services based on technical and functional requirements.
- Build Java and Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, and Kafka-based event-driven integrations.
- Apply object-oriented design, SOLID principles, reusable patterns, and secure coding practices.
- Create unit, component, integration, and regression tests and participate in peer reviews.
- Troubleshoot application, data, messaging, performance, and production issues.
- Contribute to CI/CD, observability, operational readiness, resiliency, and automation.
- Collaborate with product, architecture, testing, operations, and dependent engineering teams.
- Provide technical or product leadership, mentor team members, and drive decisions across multiple workstreams.
- Essential Skills
- Hands-on Java and Spring Boot development experience.
- Experience with microservices, REST APIs, Kafka or similar messaging platforms, and event-driven architecture.
- Knowledge of SQL or NoSQL databases, Git, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, and cloud-native platforms.
- Understanding of secure, scalable, resilient, and observable software design.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- All About You
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments and across the software development lifecycle.
- Clear communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to work with globally distributed product, engineering, architecture, operations, and business teams.
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted engineering tools, including GitHub Copilot and Claude CLI, to improve engineering efficiency is required.
- Payments or financial-services domain knowledge is preferred.
- 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.
Qualifications
- Experience with microservices, REST APIs, Kafka or similar messaging platforms, and event-driven architecture.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
About Mastercard
Global payment processing and financial technology service provider.
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