Software Engineering Manager

Our Purpose

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 respects 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.

Title and Summary

Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineer Manager, Core UI
Overview
We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join the Core UI team that sits within Foundational Services program under the Mastercard Data & Services division.
The Foundational Services group builds scalable, easy-to-use services and frameworks that provide the foundation for many of Mastercard's customer-facing applications. Our customers are market-facing product engineering teams and our goal is to help them take maximum advantage of platform capabilities and to evolve our platform to meet their needs and the needs of our customers.
Within Foundational Services, the Core UI team focuses on front-end infrastructure, core front-end services, and a tiered design system platform. We also own and support a handful of full-stack web apps that provide core services to end users.
The Core UI team is a high-performing team whose mission is to drive platform-wide user success through delivery of core product functionality and front-end architecture. Our users include both end-users and other product teams throughout Mastercard. We define user success by enabling user independence, improving usability, and increasing developer efficiency.
As a software engineering manager on Core UI, you will wear multiple hats, both as a people manager (50% of your time) and as a senior engineer on the team (50% of your time). You will manage and mentor direct reports. You should be interested in being a multiplier for your team. You will be hands-on with the team’s day-to-day engineering work, which will include writing high-quality software code, providing technical feedback, anticipating technical challenges, and engaging in cross-role/cross-team interactions daily to deliver on sprint goals.
Role
As a part of Data & Services, you will build revolutionary products that advance how businesses all over the world seize the most value from their data. As a Software Engineer Manager within the Core UI team, you will:
- Design, build, and maintain a design system that is themeable, robust, scalable, well-tested, and well-documented
- Design and build React components that are composable, reusable, responsive, and accessible
- Design and build reusable npm and nuget packages that serve a broad audience and provide core front-end services across multiple products
- Design, build, and innovate on front-end infrastructure so that we can provide an outstanding modern development experience for consuming teams and continue to shrink the legacy codebase footprint
- Be a strong individual contributor to the implementation efforts for all team work
- Critically review code and guide the team with a focus on improving code quality
- Lead large-scale projects from inception to release
- Provide technical mentorship to other team members. Grow others while growing yourself.
- Play a key role in shaping the direction of engineering processes of a team that is empowered to organize and run as they see fit
- Manage software engineers through regular 1:1s, mentorship, and constructive feedback
- Collaborate across teams with exceptional peers who are passionate about what they do
All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should:
- Excited about writing high quality code, equally excited about shaping the trajectory of your team and developing a high performing team
- Strong understanding of JavaScript web frameworks like React/Redux, Angular, etc., as well as vanilla JavaScript
- Strong understanding of other front-end technologies/tools (e.g., Typescript, web components, CSS, npm, Figma, Storybook, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of front-end testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Playright, Cypress, etc.)
- Familiarity with design systems, design tokens, and component-based UI development. Any experience building or contributing to a design system is a plus.
- Familiarity and/or working knowledge of accessibility best practices including WCAG standards, ARIA, etc.
- Interest in staying up-to-date with emerging trends in front-end development and design systems
- Eager and able to contribute to discussions around UI/UX design
- Interest in improving end-user experience and developer experience
- Interest in mastering the ins and outs of the technologies you work with rather than just using them for the task at hand
- Ability to provide technical leadership to junior team members through mentoring, collaborative troubleshooting, thought partnership, and code review
- Willingness and interest to work in C# (as this is part of our tech stack). Knowledge of C# or any object-oriented technologies is a plus.
What is Data & Services?
The Data & Services Team (D&S) is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, the D&S team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. We combine traditional management consulting with our rich data assets and in-house technology to provide our clients with powerful insights and tools to drive fact-based decision making. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, our services include consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, test-and-learn business experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management. While specializing in the payments industry, Mastercard Data & Services also works closely with major retailers, airlines, and other enterprises, leveraging data and insights garnered from within and beyond its network.
We are looking for passionate and talented technologists, who share our vision for empowering our customers to make better fact-based decisions, to join us and shape the growth of our team.
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.

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.