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.
Title and Summary
Manager, Software Engineering
Who is Mastercard?
We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respect their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results.
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join Mastercard's global credit card authorization team. We facilitate billions of transactions among issuers, acquirers, and service providers worldwide. We are looking for a strong software engineering people leader to build advanced technologies and applications that revolutionize payments.
Role
As a Software Engineering People Manager, you will:
- Serve as a servant leader for a cross functional engineering team including Software Engineers, Technical Program Managers, and Product Manager-Technical roles.
- Recruit and hire top talent, ensuring each new hire raises the bar relative to the current team.
- Collaborate closely with product, vendor, and architecture stakeholders on product definition, technical design, and overall delivery strategy.
- Act as a technical resource and mentor, helping team members grow their skills and make sound engineering decisions.
- Review designs, code, and implementations with an emphasis on quality, resiliency, and maintainability.
- Communicate clearly and confidently in department wide forums, helping convey application-level direction, progress, and priorities.
- Coach, guide, and develop your team, ensuring goal setting, check ins, and performance management are done thoughtfully and on time.
- Own the health of your team's software, including runtime characteristics, maintenance behaviors, dependencies, and environmental considerations.
- Make rapid, confident decisions in a fast-paced environment, providing clarity amid ambiguity.
- Drive senior management communication, including delivery updates, support considerations, and escalations as needed.
All About You
- A degree in Computer Science or a related field, preferred
- Proven experience leading high-performing software development teams is required. Managing, coaching, and developing high-performing Agile engineering teams is preferred.
- Relevant hands-on experience with software development is required (C/C++ or Java preferred).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and driving engineering efficiency.
- Motivated, creative, and self-directed with a strong desire to thrive on small, agile teams.
- Demonstrated ability to design scalable, reliable solutions for complex problem spaces.
- Familiarity with modular architectures, single responsibility services, and API design.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with high volume, low latency systems (e.g., payment switching, high-frequency trading, real time event streaming).
- Outstanding communication skills with all levels of the organization.
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 [email protected] 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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $140,000 - $231,000 USD