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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.\nTitle and Summary\nLead Software EngineeringWho is Mastercard?Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments sector. We power payments and provide products and services for individuals and industries all around the world. Our people, technology, data, and brand provide the capabilities that drive our success. We believe in connecting people to priceless possibilities.\nOverview\nIn addition to our traditional payments’ portfolio, Mastercard is aggressively expanding into new payment flow and leveraging the digital and connected world of people and economies to deliver faster, reliable and more efficient propositions to make payments - send or receive money.\nThe Cross Border program is part of the wider Disbursement & Remittances business that we are looking to expand at a compounded rate of 50% per year for the next 5 years. We are building solutions to enable payments in an any-to-any format - anyone, anywhere can send or receive money using any channel - money exchanges, banks, digital wallets, cards or fintech apps - providing a seamless and unified experience for both individuals and business to move money.\nWe are looking for a passionate, innovative and experienced Lead engineer with a proven track record in leading the evolution of software products and their implementation in various markets - comfortable both working hands-on as well as guiding and mentoring a team of engineers and critically always challenging the status quo and pushing and driving the technology roadmap to ensure that the solutions leverage technology to the maximum extent\nRole\nOwn complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution\nDefine, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements\nDrive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners\nIdentify opportunities and build roadmaps to enhance primary service/function\nAutomate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development by actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed.\nDrive seamless integration across all connected services to meet end-user expectations\nDrive blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings\nIntroduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines\nAdvocate for engineering principles outside of current organization/platform\nProvide development and architecture guidance to team members\nBuild relationships and effective partnerships across organizations\nMake difficult decisions on behalf of the team if required\nLead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence\nAbout You\n8+ years of experience designing, developing, and delivering scalable, 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