Manager, Software Engineering

Manager, Software Engineering

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

The Mastercard Authentication team has an exciting opportunity for a Manager of Software Engineering to enhance and modernize our payments services. This position will be key to growing a global technology platform, operating at-scale, requiring focus on performance, security, and reliability.

Do you want to positively influence the experience of millions of customers? Do you like to get involved in the creation and execution of strategic initiatives centered around digital payments? Do you look forward to developing and engaging with high performant diverse teams around the globe? Do you like to own and be accountable for highly visible strategically important teams?

Role

Managing multiple scrum teams of software developers and testers to develop quality software solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Successfully lead definition, development, and delivery of major cross-department initiatives with broad scope and long-term business implications.

Provide technical leadership and direction to software development teams in the development of Java, microservices, Rest APIs & event-based applications and platform.

Work closely with product and architecture teams on product definition, technical design, and overall execution for the team.

Ensure the project or effort is adequately staffed; trained and managed. Ensure personnel have appropriate skills and behaviors; and effectively communicate performance results; as necessary, managing each effort within approved manpower and budget guidelines.

Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development by actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed.

Own complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution.

Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements.

Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners.

Drive blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings.

Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence.

Lead by example in driving AI augmented development and connecting AI agents with enterprise tools (e.g., Jira, CI/CD pipelines, code repositories).

All About You:

Hands-on experience in designing solutions and full stack development in modern technologies for large enterprise technology platforms and systems.

Strong knowledge of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices.

Specific expertise in Java, Spring boot, microservices, Rest APIs, Kafka, Oracle, Test Automation and its frameworks.

Has experience designing and implementing solutions focusing on the non-functional concerns – Performance, Security, Scalability, Availability, Extensibility, Resiliency.

Operate with urgency, fairness, and decency to address challenges and solve for new opportunities.

Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product management, BizOps, TechOps, customer experience.

Strong communication skills – both verbal and written – with strong relationship building, collaborative skills, and organizational skills.

Experienced in Agile methodologies of software development and SDLC practices.

Able to interact with product and business stakeholders independently.

Have strong decision-making skills, lead retrospection and continually improve as a result.

Enthusiastic, ambitious, and confident.

Corporate Security Responsibility

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. 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 click.appcast.io and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $140,000 - $231,000 USD