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?
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
The Mastercard Authentication team have an exciting opportunity for a Manager of Software Engineering to enhance and modernize our payments services. This position will be key to growing a global technology platform, operating at-scale, requiring focus on performance, security, and reliability.
- Do you want to positively influence the experience of millions of customers?
- Do you like to get involved in the creation and execution of strategic initiatives centered around digital payments?
- Do you look forward to developing and engaging with high performant diverse teams around the globe?
- Do you like to own and be accountable for highly visible strategically important teams?
Role
- Managing multiple scrum teams of Software developers and testers to develop quality software solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Successfully lead definition, development and delivery of major cross-department initiatives with broad scope and long-term business implications.
- Provide technical leadership and direction to software development teams in the development of Java, microservices, Rest APIs & event based applications and platform.
- Work closely with product and architecture teams on product definition, technical design, and overall execution for the team.
- Ensure the project or effort is adequately staffed; trained and managed. Ensure personnel have appropriate skills and behaviours; and effectively communicate performance results; as necessary, managing each effort within approved manpower and budget guidelines.
- Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development by actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed.
- Own complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution.
- Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements.
- Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners.
- Drive blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings
- Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence.
- Lead by example in driving AI augmented development and connecting AI agents with enterprise tools (e.g., Jira, CI/CD pipelines, code repositories).
All About You:
- Hands-on experience in designing solutions and full stack development in modern technologies for large enterprise technology platforms and systems.
- Strong knowledge of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices.
- Specific expertise in Java, Spring boot, microservices, Rest APIs, Kafka, Oracle, Test Automation and its frameworks.
- Has experience designing and implementing solutions focusing on the non-functional concerns - Performance, Security, Scalability, Availability, Extensibility, Resiliency.
- Operate with urgency, fairness and decency to address challenges and solve for new opportunities.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product management, BizOps, TechOps, customer experience.
- Strong communication skills - both verbal and written - with strong relationship building, collaborative skills and organizational skills.
- Experienced in Agile methodologies of software development and SDLC practices.
- Able to interact with product and business stakeholders independently.
- Have strong decision-making skills, lead retrospection and continually improve as a result.
- Enthusiastic, ambitious and confident.
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.
NOTE: Candidates go through a thorough screening and interview process. There is no need to include all preferred skills in the job description.
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