Lead – Full Stack Web Applications

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 – Full Stack Web Applications

Role Title: Lead – Full Stack Web Applications
Location: Pune, India
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About Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere—by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Through secure data, trusted networks, partnerships, and innovation, we help individuals, businesses, financial institutions, and governments realise their greatest potential.
Our culture is rooted in our Decency Quotient (DQ)—guiding how we build products, collaborate with one another, and create positive impact inside and outside the company.
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Technology at Mastercard
Technology is at the heart of everything we do. What we build today shapes the future of global commerce—making it more connected, inclusive, secure, and resilient. We operate at massive global scale and are looking for leaders who thrive in complex environments, care deeply about engineering excellence, and can translate business objectives into reliable, high quality platforms and user experiences.
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About the Role
We are seeking a Lead, Full Stack Web Application to provide technical leadership and hands on delivery for modern, scalable, and secure web platforms. This role combines architecture ownership, deep engineering expertise, and people leadership.
You will work closely with Product, UX, Data/Analytics, and DevOps/SRE teams to design and deliver high impact applications while mentoring engineers, setting engineering standards, and driving best practices across the full stack.
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Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Architecture
• Lead end to end solution design, architecture, and implementation of web applications and platform services using Java (Spring Boot) and/or Python (Django / Django REST Framework), along with modern front end frameworks (React, Next.js, TypeScript).
• Define and own system boundaries, API contracts, data models, and non functional requirements, including availability, latency, scalability, resilience, and security.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards across the team, including code quality, branching strategies, peer reviews, documentation, observability, and secure coding practices.
Full Stack Engineering Delivery
• Design, build, and maintain high quality backend services covering authentication/authorisation, business logic, data access, and third party integrations.
• Develop responsive, high performance front end applications using React/Next.js, modern UI patterns, state management (Redux), and component driven development.
• Design and integrate RESTful APIs, ensuring proper versioning, backward compatibility, and robust error handling.
Performance, Reliability & Security
• Drive performance optimisation through profiling, caching strategies, database/query optimisation, and efficient rendering techniques.
• Apply secure by design principles, including input validation, dependency hygiene, secrets management, and threat aware development.
• Build and operate production grade observability using logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and runbooks, improving system reliability and mean time to recovery (MTTR).
DevOps & Cloud Enablement
• Drive CI/CD automation using Git, Jenkins, and containerised workloads with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Support cloud-native deployments on Azure and/or AWS, including environment configuration, release governance, and operational readiness.
Quality Engineering & Accessibility
• Ensure strong automated testing practices, including unit and integration testing, with shift left quality and automated quality gates.
• Champion accessibility and responsive design, ensuring compliance with WCAG 2.1 standards (semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard navigation, contrast, and screen reader compatibility).
People Leadership & Collaboration
• Mentor and coach engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and structured growth plans.
• Partner closely with Product, UX, and DevOps/SRE stakeholders to influence roadmaps, plan releases, and manage delivery trade offs.
• Communicate effectively with leadership on delivery progress, risks, technical debt, and investment requirements.
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Required Skills & Technical Proficiency
Backend & Core Engineering
• Java – Expert
• Spring Boot – Expert
• Python – Good to have
• Django / Django REST Framework – Good to have
• RESTful API design – Strong
• SQL & Relational Databases – Proficient
Frontend Engineering
• React.js / Next.js – Advanced
• Redux – Strong
• JavaScript – Expert
• TypeScript – Strong
• HTML / CSS – Expert
DevOps & Platform
• Git & Version Control – Expert
• Docker – Strong
• Kubernetes – Strong
• Jenkins (CI/CD) – Strong
• Azure – Strong
• AWS – Strong
Quality & Standards
• Unit Testing & Debugging – Proficient
• Accessibility (WCAG 2.1) – Proven experience building responsive, accessible applications
Gen-AI / AI for Faster, High-Quality Web Platform Delivery
• AI-assisted coding: accelerate feature delivery via code generation, refactoring, and rapid API/UI scaffolding with human review.
• AI-assisted test creation: generate/expand unit, integration, and UI tests; improve edge-case coverage and reduce regression defects.
• AI-driven quality checks: use AI to support PR reviews (readability, security smells, standards), and strengthen CI quality gates.
• Performance optimisation support: assist with profiling insights, query/rendering bottleneck identification, and caching/latency improvements.
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Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with full stack delivery ownership.
• 2+ years in a technical leadership role (Tech Lead, Lead Engineer, or equivalent), mentoring engineers and driving engineering standards.
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Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with microservices architectures, API governance, schema and versioning strategies, and event driven systems.
• Hands on exposure to security engineering practices, including OWASP principles and dependency management.
• Experience implementing observability and operating production systems at scale.
• Prior experience in payments, financial services, or other highly regulated domains.

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.