Senior Software Engineer

Senior Technical Lead - StavInsights

Role Overview

StavInsights is a critical capability supporting the Credit Card Program by normalizing vendor and payee data matching it with Mastercard data and exposing merchant identifiers confidence scores and eligibility attributes through APIs.

The current team consists of a Product Manager and a junior developer. While the team can support product definition and implementation additional senior technical leadership is required to own the solution architecture data-matching design API strategy delivery planning and operational readiness of the platform.

The Senior Technical Lead will be responsible for providing the technical vision leadership and accountability needed to deliver a scalable secure and high-quality solution.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the overall solution architecture and technical delivery roadmap for StavInsights.

• Define and govern API design integration standards data models and matching logic.

• Establish data quality confidence scoring and validation standards to ensure reliable outcomes.

• Lead technical design development and implementation activities across the platform.

• Provide mentoring and technical guidance to the junior developer and help strengthen the team's engineering capabilities.

• Develop realistic delivery estimates milestones and implementation plans while managing technical risks and dependencies.

• Collaborate closely with Card Engineering Product Operations and Mastercard to align technical solutions with business requirements.

• Ensure the platform is secure scalable monitored and operationally supportable.

• Drive engineering best practices technical governance and production readiness.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or a related field.

• 8 years of software engineering experience including experience in technical leadership roles.

• Strong background in solution architecture API design system integration and scalable application development.

• Experience designing data-processing matching reconciliation or analytics solutions.

• Proven ability to lead technical delivery define implementation roadmaps and manage cross-functional dependencies.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to work effectively across Engineering Product Operations and external partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in payments card services banking or financial services.

• Knowledge of Mastercard integrations or payment network ecosystems.

• Experience with cloud-based architectures microservices DevOps and observability practices.

• Familiarity with data governance data quality frameworks and confidence-scoring models.