**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 - Transfer Solutions Lead Software Engineer, Cross–Border Payments. The Transfer Solutions group is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard’s next-generation payment applications—domestic, Cross–Border, and Bill Payments. We are seeking a Principal, Software Engineering, to join our Dublin team, focusing on building and operating our Cross-Border payments platform, specifically in the Treasury Management domain. We build software that can be deployed on private or public cloud. In this role, you will design and build software that scales to global markets, enabling secure, seamless, always available Cross-Border payments. This is an exciting engineering leadership role working with a global team passionate about the solutions we deliver to our customers. Role As a lead software engineer: You will provide technical leadership to a team responsible for developing, testing, implementing, documenting, maintaining, and supporting application software systems in accordance with MasterCard standards, processes, and best practices. Your responsibilities include: • Designing and delivering detailed solutions for complex technical challenges, guiding your team through implementation. • Providing technical expertise and strategic direction on assigned projects. • Identifying opportunities for automation and process improvement across the software lifecycle (build, operate, run) to enhance efficiency. • Collaborating closely with technical architects and product owners to define and prioritize features and user stories. • Evaluating technical solutions to meet current and future business needs. • Continuously expanding your technical knowledge and driving innovation within our systems. • Leading technical demonstrations, facilitating discussions with Product Owners, and promoting best practices adoption. • Reviewing code, test automation, and engineering deliverables to ensure high standards. • Mentoring junior engineers, providing technical guidance to support their career growth. All About You • Advanced expertise in Java with Spring Boot development, including design patterns, performance optimization, and troubleshooting. • Solid experience designing and developing RESTful services and deploying on cloud native environments (AWS & PCF) • Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and cloud-first software development (AWS preferred). • Experience in building highly resilient, scalable distributed systems with expertise in databases, messaging, and caching technologies. • Proven track record of promoting engineering best practices, including API design, continuous integration, and test-driven development. • Experience working in a dynamic and collaborative work environment and making independent decisions. • Experience of leading one or more scrum teams of software engineers to provide technical direction to the team and resolve technical blockers faced by the development team • Ability to innovate and develop new approaches to complex design problems. • Self-motivated with a continuous learning mindset and a drive to take on new challenges. • Strong verbal and written communication skills, fostering relationships, and working effectively within a team. • Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering **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.