LeadSoftwareEngineer(Real-TimePayments)

**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 (Real-Time Payments) ### Overview The Realtime Payments (RTP) program is driving the global transition toward instant, account‑to‑account payments, enabling secure, low‑latency, and highly resilient payment services across multiple live markets. RTP platforms operate as mission‑critical financial infrastructure, supporting high transaction volumes, strict regulatory expectations, and very high availability requirements. Engineering in RTP is focused on delivering robust, scalable, and operable platforms—balancing feature delivery with strong engineering discipline, non‑functional excellence, and long‑term maintainability in line with Mastercard’s enterprise standards. Role We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to provide hands‑on technical leadership and execution for a RTP product or platform capability. This role is ideal for an experienced senior engineer who: Leads day‑to‑day technical execution for a team or product area Remains hands‑on in design and implementation, especially for complex flows Acts as the technical anchor for delivery quality, reliability, and operability Coaches engineers and raises the engineering bar through example The Lead Software Engineer partners closely with Product, Architecture, and Operations to ensure solutions are built correctly, perform reliably in production, and conform to RTP and Mastercard engineering standards. Key Responsibilities 1\. Design & Technical Delivery Own