Lead Software Engineer @ Mastercard

Leading projects through all stages of the project life cycle, including requirements analysis, estimation, design, development, acceptance testing, and deployment.
- Collaborate closely with Architects, Product Managers, and customers to develop both high-level and detailed design plans.
- Align technical designs and deliveries with business needs, infrastructure capabilities, and security compliance requirements.
- Design scalable, fault-tolerant, high-performance cloud systems.
- Assess current and new technologies through Proof of Concepts.
- Ensure the ongoing maintenance of live services by meticulously measuring and monitoring their availability, latency, and overall system health.
- Engage in code reviews.
- Provide mentorship, guidance, and support to developers in addressing development and integration challenges.
- Provide support in defining the project scope, determining size, establishing priorities, planning, and estimating tasks accurately.
- Maintain current knowledge of front-end and server-side technologies through self-study, reading industry blogs, attending meetups and conferences, and other professional development activities.
- Conduct technical interviews to evaluate engineering candidates.
- Employ professional judgment and experience to effectively manage trade-offs between competing priorities.
- Streamline and improve the cost-efficiency of a function, service, or architectural strategy.
- Collaborate across teams and organizational divisions to identify synergies and reuse opportunities. All About You
- Bachelors degree, or equivalent work experience in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering.
- Over 7+ years of comprehensive full stack software development experience, including 3+ years in a leadership position.
- Proficient in full stack development with extensive experience in Java (including Spring Framework, Persistence technologies/frameworks, Microservices, Testing frameworks)
- Hands-on experience with one or more of the following technologies: JavaScript, Node.js, Express, React.js, and Angular.js.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
- In-depth knowledge of web security vulnerabilities and expertise in secure coding practices.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated experience and passion for technical leadership and mentoring.
- Extensive expertise in Agile software development.
- Experience working with Messaging technologies (e.g. Apache Kafka), high volume batch processing technologies (e.g. Apache Spark) a plus.
- Experience designing, developing, and deploying Java webservices using a mix of relational and non-relational persistence stores.
- Solid knowledge of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices.
- Sound knowledge of cryptography functions incl PKI infrastructure, hashing and encryption.
- Experience in data analytics knowledge, experience with ETL, Data Modelling Pattern analysis is a bonus.