Manager of Software Engineering

Manager of Software Engineering

Our Purpose

• We work within small collaborative teams consisting of software engineers and product managers;


• Our customer’s success is at the core of what we do;


• We are diverse and inclusive teams from many backgrounds and with many experiences;


• We believe in doing well by doing good through inclusive growth and making ethical and environmentally responsible decisions.

• Supervise and coach teams of engineers to build, enhance, and support multiple applications/services for the digital payments solutions


• Work with product owners to design, develop and launch of features and services for new and existing products


• Recruit and hire the brightest talent, always bringing in someone better than at least half the individuals in the role


• Ensure objectives and development plans are established in working with the global leadership team at the start of the year and reviewed continuously throughout the year


• Continuously engage and improve teams’ performance by conducting recurring 1-1 meetings, knowing your people, managing career development, and understanding who is at risk


• Provide and facilitate timely feedback, coaching in the moment, and mentoring for staff at all levels


• Emulate and drive Mastercard Way behaviours through their behaviour, recognitions, coaching, and employee engagement


• Provide strategic thinking and collaborate with the global leadership team for a wide range of software design and development methodologies for cloud deployments


• Benchmark and drive engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance in the areas of ownership


• Form strong relationships with the global leadership in raising the engineering bar in developing digital payment solutions

• you have with successful track record in managing development teams with demonstrated thought-leadership, cross-functional influence, and partnerships


• you have worked extensively on server-side, backend applications and technologies;


• you’re comfortable leading engineers that are exploring and defining new ways of working;


• you have skills to drive technical review of design and code across services to look for anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring


• you understand and elaborate technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritisation discussions with stakeholders to improve the run experience


• you understand system architecture to plan for platform and infrastructure capacity (e.g., database, compute, network, storage) and drives the dependency prioritisation to reduce the delivery lead time


• you enjoy sharing your knowledge and experience with your colleagues across locations;


• you have experience of developing SDK, Cloud and Event messaging based architecture patterns


• you have experience of RESTful API and stateless service design patterns and deployment;


• you have progressively grown in career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages, secure coding standards, and deployment environments.


• you have deployed complex applications into cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud using containerisation technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes;


• you can build robust testing strategies to minimize defects by regression, performance, deployment verification and release testing processes; and,


• you’re excited to build applications that have global impact and are used daily by 100s of millions of people.

• you’ve used the Spring Framework components in developing backend services– it’s what we use to create our cloud-ready applications;


• you’ve used Pivotal Cloud Foundry to deploy cloud-ready applications;


• you can use Domain Driven Design to solve business problems;


• you’ve built Event Driven applications;


• you’ve built 12-factor applications;


• you have “Full-stack” experience and can solve all aspects of the technology problem to deliver a solution to a production environment;


• you have first-hand knowledge of a wide range of technologies – databases, messaging, caches, API gateways, networking, pipelines, cryptography, HSMs – and preferably the products we use such as Jenkins, Splunk, Oracle, Apache Kafka, Redis and NATS.

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.