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.

Providing Innovative, Secure, and Reliable Switching Solutions is the lifeblood of Mastercard Core Products. We are currently seeking a passionate, collaborative, and experienced software engineering leader to join the Network Solutions team. Are you a collaborator capable of communicating effectively with Business and IT stakeholders across all organizational levels? Are you an innovator who embraces, adopts, and studies the latest technology to solve challenging business problems?

Are you a leader who inspires the team to think “out of the box” and effectively communicates across all levels of the organization? If this describes you, we want to talk to you about creating the new team in O’Fallon, MO that will support the Network Solutions charter.

• Formally supervises, coaches, and develops a work group/team
• Complies with goal setting and performance appraisal process
• Monitors objectives and drives performance of the team
• Provides strategic leadership related to specific applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
• Ensures quality of one or more application codebases and alignment with development standards
• Applies technical capabilities within own discipline to coach and develop junior employees
• Researches and evaluates tools to support domain-specific needs, and assists in vendor assessment and selection process
• Partners with Domain Owners and P&E Payment Networks team to identify innovative solutions and drive strategic decisions
• Designs highly complex applications, interfaces, and integrations with a modest number of systems
• Responsible for performance engineering of the enterprise software architecture, and provides functional guidance, advice, and/or training to other application developers
• Group-wide and external public speaking and other communications conveying domain level directions
• Engages in significant advanced code development, code/review of pull-requests, and extensive day-to-day support duties
• Embraces and champions use of AI across the group

• Proven experience leading all aspects of technology solutions delivery, from definition through operations/run
• People Management experience 2-3 years and should have leadership qualities
• 8+ years of experience in product/framework/tools development, upgrades, and production support for defects, vulnerability fixes, compliance & migrations
• 5+ years of experience with multiple diverse (cross-functional) teams, working ability with strong matrix organization, experience conducting formal performance reviews
• Understanding of and advanced experience with Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies
• Engineering experience, preferably in high volume, low latency transaction processing systems (such as payments transaction switching, high frequency trading systems or global real-time event streaming systems etc.)
• Experience with various coding languages Java, Go, C++, ESQL, etc.
• Delivered scalable products through a CI/CD pipeline deploying on-prem or in a public cloud infrastructure
• Strong writing and verbal communication skills

• Experienced in event driven systems (Apache Kafka, NATS, etc)
• Experienced in building platforms with Microservice architecture and RESTful APIs
• Experience using cloud-native approaches running on Linux, leveraging Spring Boot
• Experience with virtualization like Cloud Foundry (PCF), Kubernetes (PKS), Docker etc.
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline creation via Jenkins
• Exposure to AI assisted development processes

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers…