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 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.


Overview

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.

Supporting the Mastercard Cyber and Security Services program members of this team have an opportunity to build new and extend current fraud prevention services. This exciting area within Mastercard is growing fast and creating cutting edge technologies that prevent fraud across the globe.

Role

• Would you like to develop industry leading solutions for preventing cybercrimes in payments?
• Are you motivated by using state of the art technologies to speed business solutions to market?
• Do you want to create innovative solutions to challenging business problems?

As Manager, Software Engineering , you'll be leading a team that is at the forefront of designing, developing, and delivering industry-leading software solutions that protect the payments ecosystem. You’ll work in a collaborative environment where your ideas and expertise will shape the future of cybersecurity.

• Lead the analysis, design, development, and delivery of software solutions that drive business value.
• Collaborate to define requirements for new applications and customizations, ensuring alignment with best practices and business goals.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship to a talented team of developers, empowering them to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Support and coach fellow technical resources and play an active role in evaluating new talent for our growing team.
• Take a strategic role in shaping the direction of specific applications, systems, and software-development methodologies within the organization.

All About You

• Strong foundation in software engineering, with a deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and best practices.
• Proven leadership experience in guiding teams through design efforts and providing technical guidance throughout development.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and test-driven development (TDD).
• Comfortable navigating technical diagrams, user journeys, and data flows to understand and communicate complex systems.
• Ability to collaborate with architects and bridge technical designs with business requirements, ensuring solutions meet both needs.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience with technologies like Java, Web Services, and Microservices, especially in transitioning from monolithic systems to modern, scalable architectures.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and digital-native architectures, such as PCF and AWS.

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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.