Manager, Software Engineering

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.

• Are you passionate about building low-latency, high-volume, and highly available systems that support real-time payment authorization?
• Would you like to lead a team developing industry-leading solutions that help prevent fraud?
• Do you enjoy applying modern technologies to complex business and engineering challenges?

• Define and execute an engineering strategy aligned with business and product objectives.
• Lead cross-functional teams in delivering secure, scalable, and high-quality software on schedule and within budget.
• Oversee the end-to-end software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, development, testing, release, production support, and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical leadership for Java 21 applications built with Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, and RESTful web services.
• Promote strong automated testing practices using JUnit and Mockito.
• Champion engineering best practices across Dev Ops, CI/CD, observability, secure development, and agile delivery.
• Guide build, code-quality, version-control, and deployment practices using Maven, Sonar Qube, Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Habitat, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
• Ensure the reliability and performance of services operating in Linux environments and using Oracle Database and Gem Fire Grid.
• Strengthen production monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance management through Splunk, Dynatrace, and shell scripting.
• Support secure application and infrastructure practices, including secrets management with Hashi Corp Vault.
• Ensure operational readiness through effective monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, performance tuning, and service-reliability practices.
• Identify and mitigate technical, security, operational, and delivery risks across programs and initiatives.
• Establish clear engineering goals, performance measures, and quality standards.
• Improve engineering processes, tools, and metrics to increase delivery efficiency and product quality.
• Build, coach, and retain high-performing engineering teams through regular feedback, career development, and performance management.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Partner with Product, Operations, and Business teams to define priorities, scope, roadmaps, and delivery plans.
• Communicate technical strategy, risks, progress, and outcomes to executive and non-technical stakeholders.
• Represent Engineering in strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, and resource-planning discussions.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Extensive software engineering and architecture experience, including people leadership responsibility for complex, mission-critical platforms.
• Proven success delivering distributed, scalable, low-latency systems and high-volume transaction-processing applications.
• Strong experience with Java, Spring-based services, RESTful APIs, automated testing, and service-oriented architecture.
• Working knowledge of Java 21, JUnit, Mockito, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Maven, and Sonar Qube.
• Experience with Git-based development workflows and tools such…