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 Identity Solutions team is looking for a Manager, Software Engineering to drive our Identity verification and authentication strategy in payments forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the payment space in general and identity authentication space in particular, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset as we delve into building new solutions and make a positive impact on how users make payments while ensuring high security and convenience.

Role
In this Engineering Manager position, you will:
• Collaborate with Product, Technical, Business Operations, and cross-functional teams to understand requirements, lead design and architecture, and deliver scalable solutions.
• Oversee development and support of application software in alignment with Mastercard standards and best practices.
• Deliver high-quality, secure software solutions on time and within budget.
• Evaluate and propose technical solutions to meet business needs.
• Ensure proper documentation for systems and testing per departmental standards.
• Adhere to development and testing standards to meet audit and compliance requirements.
• Support project and software metrics reporting.
• Foster team motivation, career development, and mentorship.
• Manage Leads and SCRUM teams, including developers, testers, product managers, and technical program managers, to achieve business goals.

All About You
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Strong grasp of Software Engineering principles and Agile/SAFe methodologies.
• Proven experience in software development and technical team leadership.
• Detail-oriented, proactive, and able to perform under pressure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; quick to learn and apply new technologies and tools.
• Strong collaboration and organizational skills; effective in diverse, distributed teams.
• Committed to improving standards and process efficiency.
• Skilled in troubleshooting and proactive problem prevention.
• Experienced in building secure, high-performance applications with solid architecture and design principles.
• Highly proficient in modern Java, Spring boot, microservices, REST APIs, databases, and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, PCF).
• Familiar with enterprise-level frameworks and tools.
• Hands-on technical manager with strong design and coding capabilities.
• Effective people manager who drives technical deliverables through leadership.
• Payment’s domain experience is a plus.


The ideal candidate for this position should:
· Is passionate about building innovative solutions to make a positive impact on how people make payments globally.
· Is technology and data savvy and understands how data can enable convenience in payments and at the same time prevent frauds.
· Have a clear mission that focuses on the business objectives and rally the team towards a common goal.
· Skilled in planning and execution and setting right expectations and be a great partner to work with all stakeholders across Mastercard.
· In a problem solver with attitude of getting things done.
· Be a strong, confident, and exacting writer and speaker, able to communicate your vision and roadmap effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applican