Lead Software Engineer - Java development
Mastercard
- Location
- Pune, India
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Senior
- Posted
- Aug 24, 2026
Skills
About this 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 development Job Description Summary Seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join Fraud Insights team, which serves various client-tele such as Merchants, Financial Institutions (Issuer, Acquirer), Digital players to recognize & identify fraud patterns in the respective ecosystems and provide ability to react with confidence. Our solution provides data analytics, visualization & data marketplace capabilities while leveraging cloud based user interface, micro-services, visualization capabilities, SaaS integrations like Power BI, Azure AD & SnowFlake. • Are you motivated by speeding business solutions to market? • Do you want to innovate, using cutting edge technologies on challenging business problems? • Do you want to be part of an innovator that is changing the ecommerce landscape and reinventing the way global merchants and issuers combat fraud through collaboration? We welcome the challengers and thought leaders. We want the agile, creative risk-takers who can address challenges with an open mind, the freedom to innovate and the strength to dominate. Services growth is explosive, and only great problem-solvers, collaborators and thinkers can help us take it to the next level. If that sounds like you, keep reading.
Role
Provide support of applications software through programming, analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions. Research alternative technical solutions for changing business needs. Major Accountabilities: • Participate in designing highly scalable, fault tolerant, and performant systems in cloud • Ensure project implementation(s) and technical delivery are compliant with solution architectural design and best practices • Provide technical guidance to the project team(s) • Consult and support project team(s) regarding project implementation • Explain technical issues and solution strategies to stakeholders • Ensure that technical designs and deliveries milestones are accomplished on time • Ensure that technical designs and deliveries are aligned with business needs, infrastructure capabilities and security & compliance requirements • Evaluate current and emerging technologies via Proof of Concepts or similar • Assist with project scoping, sizing, prioritizing, planning, and estimation • Identify and mitigate existing business risk(s) associated with solution architecture and technical designs • Thrive in a highly collaborative company environment where agility is paramount • Stay up to date with new technologies on the front-end and server-side through self-study, blogs, meetups, conferences, etc. • Mentor development team on industry best practices • Needs deep understanding of software development , architecture, and performance engineering to help drive quality early in the life cycle of a product development. In addition, experience in payment processing/domain is highly desirable. • Will be responsible for driving adoption of Quality Engineering services (Code quality, Testing Services, Performance Engineering, Testing and Environment automation, Development Collaboration, Continuous Integration) . • Requires an extensive understanding of BDD/TDD practices, code review and analysis techniques, and open source agile testing frameworks. This position leads the delivery quality across couple agile feature teams, and product releases. • Interacts with technology staff including Quality Engineers,