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
The AI & Decision Engineering Platform powers intelligent, real-time decisioning for Mastercard's fraud prevention and identity validation solutions. This program enables streaming analytics, governed decision-making, and outcome management with business agility at global scale.
Our platform leverages business rules engines, AI-driven decisioning, streaming big data clusters, in-memory data grids, APIs, and intuitive UIs to deliver decisions in milliseconds across billions of transactions worldwide.
As a Lead Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in driving technical excellence across multiple projects, mentoring engineers, and shaping the architecture for next generation decisioning capabilities. You'll lead design discussions, enforce coding standards, and ensure automation and scalability are at the core of every solution. This is a hybrid position based in Vancouver, requiring three days on-site per week.
Role: • Develop backend services using Java, leveraging frameworks like Spring and gRPC for high-performance applications.• Own AI model deployment pipelines, focusing on automation for deployment and validation in production environments.• Drive design discussions and technical forums, propose alternatives, and ensure optimal architecture and coding standards.• Manage Kubernetes clusters, oversee containerized workloads, and support cloud migration (AWS) from on-prem environments.• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement within a team of 8-9 developers and cross-functional stakeholders.• Review code and designs, enforce best practices, and ensure delivery of secure, maintainable, and high-quality solutions.• Collaborate across teams, manage multiple projects, and steer technical training and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
All About You:• Strong expertise in Java, Spring, gRPC, and backend service development.• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), Kubernetes, and container orchestration.• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS) and migration strategies.• Proven ability to lead design discussions, review code, and enforce engineering standards.• Experience mentoring engineers and managing technical forums.• Knowledge of AI model deployment, automation frameworks, and streaming architectures.• Familiarity with IBM ODM, Kafka, and distributed systems.• Exposure to microservices, Docker, and cloud-native patterns.• Ownership & Accountability: Drives outcomes and sets technical direction.• Collaboration: Works effectively across global teams and stakeholders.• Leadership: Inspires and mentors engineers, promotes technical rigor.• Adaptability: Thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments.
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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.

Pay Ranges
Vancouver, Canada: $127,000 - $203,000 CAD