Lead Software Engineer

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 Overview: Interested in building the next generation platform that empowers end-to-end marketing campaign management inclusive of audience targeting, campaign execution, and measurement? Our platforms operate at global scale, processing massive volumes of data and enabling data-driven marketing solutions across markets worldwide. The overarching goal of data-driven marketing is to deliver the right content, to the right person, at the right time. We are growing rapidly in Atlanta, GA or Lisbon, Portugal. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about reimagining products, features, and services at scale while helping shape the future of digital marketing technology. If you wish to be part of this Priceless® experience, read below. The Marketing Services (MS) Technology team is looking for a Lead Software Development Engineer (Technical Lead) to provide technical ownership, with an emphasis on engineering efficiency, on-time delivery, innovation, and an outstanding experience for our customers. The ideal candidate is passionate about architecting and building highly available, large-scale platforms using modern engineering practices. You will work across technologies including Java, Spring Boot, React, GraphQL, Databricks, AWS, Spark, Hadoop, real-time data processing frameworks, and cloud-native architectures. Our teams leverage GenAI and Agentic AI capabilities throughout the product development lifecycle to accelerate delivery, improve quality, strengthen automation, and drive engineering effectiveness. This role provides an opportunity to lead innovative solutions while helping drive Mastercard's cloud transformation journey and the future of intelligent marketing platforms. Role: • Provide technical leadership for the design and development of new platform capabilities. • Build and support distributed applications, REST APIs, and web services using Java, Spring Boot, and cloud-native technologies. • Lead cross-functional teams of full stack, frontend, and data engineers. • Design highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable platforms that support global marketing solutions. • Partner with product, architecture, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions. • Drive platform modernization initiatives leveraging AWS, Databricks, and modern data architectures. • Champion software quality, automation, observability, reliability, performance, and operational excellence. • Promote adoption of GenAI, Agentic AI, and modern engineering practices across the development lifecycle. • Support monitoring, troubleshooting, optimization, and continuous improvement of production platforms. All About You: • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field. • Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems. • Experience with modern web technologies including React, Angular, Node.js, GraphQL, or similar frameworks. • Experience with Databricks, Spark, Hadoop, Python, Scala, and cloud-based analytics platforms. • Experience building real-time or near real-time data processing solutions. • Strong understanding of Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Event Driven Architecture (EDA). • Experience with automated testing frameworks including JUnit, Mockito, and BDD methodologies. • Working knowledge of CI/CD