Vice President, Software Engineering - Send

** 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.
*** Title and Summary**### Vice President, Software Engineering - Send###   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.  

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.  Overview  Mastercard Send (part of the Mastercard Move portfolio) enables near real-time money movement across billions of card, bank, and digital accounts globally.

Program participants (banks, businesses, and digital players) use Send to modernize domestic and cross-border payments, making funds available to recipients almost instantly. Send supports critical use cases such as disbursements, gig-economy payouts, and person-to-person transfers, accelerating a structural shift toward payment immediacy where timely access to funds can be economically and socially transformative.
Send has achieved strong adoption across banks, fintechs, and digital ecosystems and represents a significant growth engine within Mastercard. The program is on track to generate over $600M in revenue in FY2025 and is expected to grow by 50% over the next three years. For engineering leaders, Send offers the opportunity to build and operate a large-scale, real-time distributed system where reliability, performance, and trust directly translate into measurable business outcomes and meaningful socio-economic impact.  

Role  We are seeking a Vice President of Software Engineering to provide strategic, technical, and people leadership for the Send program. This role will lead multiple engineering teams in St. Louis and partner closely with global counterparts across engineering, product, operations, risk, security, and customer teams.
The ideal candidate brings a strong techno-functional background, deep expertise in Java-based distributed systems, and a proven track record of building high-availability, low-latency financial platforms with rigorous operational discipline. This leader will balance hands-on technical depth with executive-level leadership, driving platform modernization, resiliency, scalability, and product innovation while maintaining the highest standards of reliability, security, and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities    Technology & Architecture Leadership  
• Develop technical vision and execution for the Send engineering organization, aligned to product and platform roadmap.  
• Lead architecture and design decisions for large-scale Java distributed systems, including event-driven architectures, messaging/streaming platforms, APIs, and data stores.  
• Drive platform modernization initiatives (e.g., cloud adoption, containerization, service decomposition, resilience patterns, performance optimization).  
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for code quality, security, scalability, performance, and reliability.  
• Act as a senior technical authority, is able to dive deep into complex system behaviors, failure modes, and trade-offs when required.
Operational Excellence & Reliability  
• Champion an SRE-informed operating model with strong focus on availability, latency, throughput, error budgets, and recovery objectives.  
• Ensure robust incident,…