Manager Software Engineering

Manager Software Engineering

Overview

Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead a high-performing team responsible for building, enhancing, and supporting enterprise software solutions, internal engineering platforms, and workflow automation capabilities. This role combines strong people leadership with technical expertise to deliver scalable, secure, resilient, and operationally excellent software products.

The successful candidate will drive engineering excellence across the software development lifecycle while coaching and developing engineers, influencing technical direction, and partnering with stakeholders to deliver business outcomes. This leader will foster a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and customer focus while supporting modernization initiatives and enterprise engineering standards.

Role & Responsibilities

• Engineering & Technical Leadership
• Software Quality & Engineering Excellence
• Operability & Production Excellence
• People Leadership & Talent Development
• Program & Execution Leadership
• Enterprise Leadership & Change Management

All About You

• Strong hands-on experience designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting enterprise software solutions.

• Proven success leading software engineering teams and driving technical delivery in complex environments.

• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, scalable systems, and cloud-native technologies.

• Experience leading teams responsible for enterprise platforms, APIs, integration solutions, or workflow automation capabilities.

• Demonstrated experience with code reviews, software quality practices, testing strategies, and engineering governance.

• Strong understanding of secure coding practices, application security, and regulatory considerations.

• Experience managing operational support, service reliability, and incident response processes.

• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to influence stakeholders across business and technology organizations.

• Strong communication, leadership, and organizational skills.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of people leadership, team management, or technical leadership experience.
• Experience working within Agile delivery frameworks.
• Experience delivering enterprise software solutions from concept through production support.
• Experience leading engineering teams through project execution, prioritization, and delivery management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or supporting developer platforms, internal engineering tools, workflow automation platforms, or productivity solutions.
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, Power Automate, workflow automation technologies, or low-code/no-code solutions.
• Experience with Java, React, API-based architectures, and cloud-native platforms.
• Experience with distributed systems, high-availability architectures, and scalable enterprise applications.
• Knowledge of observability, monitoring, site reliability engineering (SRE), and operational excellence practices.
• Demonstrated success driving modernization, engineering transformation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience developing and mentoring engineers across multiple experience levels.

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.

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;
• 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.

Pay Ranges

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