Tech Lead - Software Engineering - F/H

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.

Lead Software Engineer

The AI & Decision Engineering Platform powers intelligent, real-time decisioning for Mastercard’s fraud prevention and identity validation solutions. This program enables streaming analytics, governed decision-making, and outcome management with business agility at global scale.

Our platform leverages business rules engines, AI-driven decisioning, streaming big data clusters, in-memory data grids, APIs, and intuitive UIs to deliver decisions in milliseconds across billions of transactions worldwide.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing and implementing high-performance, cloud-ready solutions. You’ll mentor team members while remaining hands-on with coding, testing, and design—helping shape the next generation of Mastercard’s decisioning capabilities. This is a hybrid position based in Vancouver, requiring three days on-site per week.

The Decision Management program enables intelligent decision based products through streaming analytics with the ability to govern these decisions and manage their outcomes with business agility.

This program leverages business rules & AI engines, a streaming big data cluster, an in memory data grids, APIs, & UIs to deliver real time decisions at global scale

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II to join our DMP team in the Vancouver office.

Are you a strong technical engineer with experience working on high-performance applications?

Are you a excited about getting a 360 degree view of the coding world - writing code to develop a piece of code as well as writing code to test it?

Do you want to be part of a team which helps prevent fraud on every Mastercard transaction in this world?

Ensure design documentations meet the highest standard required by Company policies

Strong programming skills with deep knowledge of Java.

Excellent skillset in designing and building high IO system with emphasis on security, high availability and resilience

Good knowledge of SQL and experience working with Oracle.

Good problem diagnostic and creative problem solving skills.

Participate in all the Scrum ceremonies.

BS in computer science or a related field preferred.

What we offer in return includes a beautiful view of the North Shore mountains, coffee that doesn’t stink, and colleagues that are as brilliant as they are likeable. We do cool things as a team, including monthly craft beer tastings. Don’t forget the competitive salary, extended health benefits, flex-time schedules, and encouragement and support for professional development. We love it here, and we think you will too.

In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact View email address on ca.workus.org not include any medical or health information in this email. 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;

Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in Canada, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive pay based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program.

Vancouver, Canada: $127,000 - $203,000 CAD