Mastercard
Financial Services
LeadSoftwareEngineer-AgenticSystems
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“Lead Software Engineer - Agentic Systems at Mastercard. Skills: Agentic systems, Distributed systems, Orchestration. Own complex engineering problems. Drive alignment and resolution”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Significant experience building backend systems, Significant experience operating production systems, Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, or Python, Modern service development practices, Own service/domain end-to-end, Deep understanding of secure service communication, Deep understanding of authentication/authorization, Deep understanding of secure coding practices, Experience with observability, Experience with operations, Lead through influence
Nice to Have
Experience building LLM systems, Experience building AI services, Experience with agent familiarity, Experience with tool invocation patterns, Experience with workflow orchestration patterns, Experience designing policy-driven platforms, Hands-on cloud-native architectures, Hands-on DevOps practices
What You'll Do.
Own complex engineering problems
Drive alignment and resolution
Design secure backend services
Design scalable backend services
Design resilient backend services
Deliver secure backend services
Deliver scalable backend services
Deliver resilient backend services
Design orchestration layers
Deliver orchestration layers
Enable multi-step agent execution
Define technical artifacts
Produce technical artifacts
Evaluate emerging technologies
Establish fit-for-purpose patterns
Implement orchestration patterns
Implement stateful workflows
Implement tool invocation frameworks
Ensure actions are attributable
Ensure actions are authorized
Ensure actions are auditable
Ensure actions are observable
Design policy enforcement hooks
Constrain data access
Support reviewable audit trails
Lead incident response
Lead root cause analysis
Drive continuous improvements
Drive adoption of SDLC best practices
Identify non-functional requirements
Drive non-functional requirements
Ensure systems meet standards
Coach engineers on design
Coach engineers on implementation
Coach engineers on operability
Mentor junior engineers
Mentor senior engineers
Provide development model
Provide architecture model
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with AI Engineers; Partner with Product teams; Aligning cross-functional partners
Full Job Description
**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 - Agentic Systems ### Lead Software Engineer – Agentic Systems (L6) Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. ________________________________________ About Business & Market Insights (B&MI) Business & Market Insights (B&MI) is Mastercard’s analytics and intelligence organization, delivering insight products and platforms that help customers navigate change, benchmark performance, and take informed action. Internally, B&MI spans multiple product areas delivering contextual intelligence, precision analytics, operational insights, and consulting-enabled capabilities—backed by modern data and engineering platforms. ________________________________________ Overview Mastercard is seeking a Lead Software Engineer (L6) to help build and scale agentic systems—platform and product capabilities where AI agents orchestrate multi-step workflows, invoke tools/services, and operate under explicit guardrails. This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems engineering and agentic runtime design. You will lead technical executio
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