Manager, Software Engineering - Java, Springboot, Angular, Kafka; Payments;

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 - Java, Springboot, Angular, Kafka; Payments;

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments sector. We power payments and provide products and services for individuals and industries all around the world. Our people, technology, data and brand provide the capabilities that drive our success. We believe in connecting people to priceless possibilities.

As a company, we know that our success is driven by the skills, experience, integrity and mindset of the talent we hire. By building an inclusive, world-class culture, our employees have once-in-a-career opportunities to be a part of teams that have a greater impact on our community and our world. We invite you to join our team to find out how you too can start something priceless.

Overview
In addition to our traditional payments portfolio, Mastercard is aggressively expanding into new payment flow and leveraging the digital and connected world of people and economies to deliver faster, reliable and more efficient propositions to make payments – send or receive money.

The Cross Border program is part of the wider Disbursement & Remittances business that we are looking to expand at a compounded rate of 50% per year for the next 5 years. We are building solutions to enable payments in an any-to-any format – anyone, anywhere can send or receive money using any channel – money exchanges, banks, digital wallets, cards or fintech apps – providing a seamless and unified experience for both individuals and business to move money.

We are looking for a passionate, innovative and experienced engineers with a proven track record in leading the evolution of software products and their implementation in various markets – comfortable both working hands-on as well as guiding and mentoring a team of engineers and critically always challenging the status quo and pushing and driving the technology roadmap to ensure that the solutions leverage technology to the maximum extent

Role
What’s it all about and what do we expect you to do day to day
- Manage 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, Springboot based services 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 behaviors; and effectively communicate performance results; as necessary, managing each effort within approved manpower and budget guidelines
- 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
- Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery and development by actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed.
- Drive blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings
- Introduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines
- Build relationships and effective partnerships across organizations
- Make difficult decisions on behalf of the team if required
- Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate engineering excellence

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, Springboot, Angular, Postgres, Test Automation
- Has experience designing and implementing solutions focusing on the non-functional concerns – Performance, Scalability, Availability, Extensibility, Supportability, Usability
- Operate with urgency, fairness and decency to address challenges and solve for new opportunities.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product managementm, BizOps, TechOps, customer experience
- Strong communicator to maintain internal and external alignment.
- Experienced in agile and SDLC practices
- Able to interact with product and business stakeholders independently
- Strong understanding of the Payment domain with focus on ISO 20022 A2A payment standards

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.