LeadSoftwareEngineer

**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 Accelerators group under the Business & Market Insights - Platform Engineering program at Mastercard is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive high-impact technical initiatives that accelerate delivery, improve platform scalability, and enable innovation across the organization. The Accelerators group is leading from the front in making meaningful contributions that allow the B&MI organization to go “faster.” This team is intentionally agile and flexible, not defined by a single technology stack, domain, or rigid process. Instead, it is composed of self-starters and self-unblockers who focus on delivering outcomes while continuously improving how those outcomes shape the next phase of platform evolution. If you're seeking an opportunity to impact a business unit across platform engineering, DevOps, software engineering, and process transformation—while also mentoring and growing others—this position is for you. This is a hybrid role based in Arlington, VA, requiring three days per week onsite. Role: • Make foundational changes to the CI/CD pipelines and practices at Mastercard to improve reliability, address common use cases, and deliver market facing solutions faster • Develop reusable engineering patterns, frameworks, and tools that improve developer experience and accelerate delivery across teams. • Drive modernization and optimization of SDLC/PDLC practices through intentional AI adoption