Mastercard

Lead Software Engineer

Pune · On-site · Senior · Full-time

  • java
  • go
  • c++
  • esql
  • apache kafka
  • nats
  • spring boot
  • kubernetes
  • docker
  • jenkins

Lead Software Engineer for payment switching platforms with microservices, Kafka, Kubernetes at Mastercard Pune.

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Posted 16 Oct 2026 · found on Mastercard's own careers page

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Written from 8 current Platform postings on Mastercard's own careers page — not questions Mastercard has asked.

  1. Walk me through how you'd design an agentic workflow that integrates AI-powered capabilities into an existing engineering operations process. What does the agent own versus what stays human-in-the-loop, and how do you guard against the agent taking a wrong automated action in production?
    From the posting: “Design and implement agent-driven workflows and intelligent automation solutions. Integrate AI powered capabilities into engineering and operational processes. Establish best practices for responsible AI adoption within software delivery lifecycles.”
  2. It's peak transaction time and your CI/CD pipeline just deployed a change to the payment switching service. Latency on the switching path has spiked and some transactions are timing out. Walk me through how you troubleshoot this live.
    From the posting: “Ensure quality across the full stack via rigorous CI/CD practices in all aspects of the SDLC (Builds, Test, and Deploy).”
  3. Tell me about a time you had to modernize or refactor a critical piece of infrastructure or codebase. What was your approach, and how did you manage the risk?
    From the posting: “Drive modernization, automation, and platform engineering initiatives”
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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

Job Description

Summary Job Summary: ============================= Providing Innovative, Secure, and Reliable Switching Solutions is the lifeblood of Mastercard Core Products, we are currently seeking a passionate, collaborative, and experienced software engineer to join the Payment Networks Team. Are you a collaborator capable of communicating effectively with Business and IT stakeholders across all organizational levels? Are you an innovator who embraces, adopts, and studies the latest technology to solve challenging business problems? Are you a leader who inspires the team to think “out of the box” and effectively communicates across all levels of the organization?

If this describes you, Mastercard wants to talk to you about the creation of our new agile development team that will support Network Access solutions within the Payment Networks organization. About the Role: =================================== - Ensure quality of one or more application codebases and alignment with development standards. - Applies technical capabilities within own discipline to coach and develop junior employees. - Assists in vendor assessment and evaluates and recommends software development tools. - Designs highly complex applications, interfaces and integration with a modest number of systems. - Responsible for performance engineering of the enterprise software architecture, and providing functional guidance, advice, and/or training to other application developers. - Group-wide and external public speaking and other communications conveying domain level directions - Researching and evaluating tools to support domain-specific needs. - Significant advanced code development, commitment of code/review of pull-requests, and modest day-to-day support duties. About You: =================================== - Engineering experience, preferably in high volume, low latency transaction processing systems (such as payments transaction switching, high frequency trading systems or global real-time event streaming systems etc.) - Experience with various coding languages Java, Go, C++,ESQL, etc. - Delivered scalable products through a CI/CD pipeline deploying on-prem or in a public cloud infrastructure. - Ensure quality across the full stack via rigorous CI/CD practices in all aspects of the SDLC (Builds, Test, and Deploy). - Strong writing and verbal communication skills Preferred Skills: =================================== - Experienced in event driven systems (Apache Kafka, NATS, etc) - Experienced in building platforms with Microservice architecture and RESTful APIs. - Experience using cloud-native approaches running on Linux, leveraging Spring Boot - Experience with virtualization like Cloud Foundry(PCF), Kubernetes (PKS), Docker etc. - Experience in CI/CD pipeline creation via Jenkins Education: BS or MS in Computer Science 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.

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