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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.\nTitle and Summary\nManager, Software EngineeringAbout the RoleThis is an exciting opportunity to join Mastercard's global credit card authorization program. We facilitate billions of transactions among issuers, acquirers, and service providers worldwide. We are looking for a strong software engineering people leader to build advanced technologies and applications that revolutionize payments.\nAs a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a cross-functional team while helping shape the strategic direction of critical payment systems. You will be responsible for driving engineering excellence across software design, development, testing, security, performance, operability, and delivery, ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, and aligned with Mastercard's enterprise objectives.\nRole\nAs a Software Engineering People Manager, you will:\nTeam Leadership & Development\nServe as a servant leader for a cross-functional engineering team including Software Engineers, Technical Program Managers, and Product Manager-Technical roles.\nRecruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent, ensuring a high-performing and diverse team.\nCoach and mentor engineers, helping them grow technical expertise, leadership capabilities, and business acumen.\nConduct performance reviews, career development planning, and regular coaching conversations.\nEngineering Strategy & Enterprise Leadership\nPartner with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to define technical strategies that support both team objectives and broader 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SDLC.\nPromote clean code, reusable components, maintainable architecture, and engineering craftsmanship.\nReview designs, code, and implementations with an emphasis on quality, security, resiliency, maintainability, and performance.\nGuide engineers in applying effective use of data structures, algorithms, and performance-aware design techniques.\nTesting & Quality Engineering\nEstablish and promote best practices for unit testing, functional testing, integration testing, and automated quality validation.\nEnsure teams maintain appropriate test coverage and incorporate testing into CI/CD pipelines.\nDrive quality engineering practices that improve reliability, reduce defects, and increase confidence in releases.\nChampion automation strategies that improve engineering productivity and software quality.\nPerformance Engineering\nDrive performance engineering practices across the team, including performance testing, benchmarking, scalability analysis, and system tuning.\nEnsure applications are designed and optimized for high-volume, low-latency transaction processing environments.\nMonitor and improve application performance, throughput, resource utilization, and reliability.\nPartner with engineers to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks through effective system design and algorithm selection.\nSecure Software Engineering\nEnsure teams follow secure coding standards and software security best practices throughout the development lifecycle.\nPromote security-by-design principles including threat modeling, secure architecture reviews, vulnerability management, and risk mitigation.\nPartner with security teams to ensure applications meet Mastercard security requirements and industry standards.\nOperability & Reliability Engineering\nOwn the operational health of applications and services, including observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and supportability.\nDrive engineering practices that improve reliability, availability, resiliency, and maintainability.\nEnsure systems are designed for efficient operations, incident response, and long-term sustainability.\nSupport Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps practices that improve operational excellence.\nTroubleshooting & Incident Management\nLead teams in diagnosing and resolving complex production issues across distributed systems and applications.\nFacilitate root cause analysis activities and ensure corrective actions are implemented.\nProvide leadership during incidents and production escalations, helping restore service quickly while minimizing business impact.\nDelivery & Execution\nDrive execution and delivery of strategic initiatives while balancing business priorities, technical debt, operational needs, and team capacity.\nOwn delivery of health, risk management, dependency tracking, and stakeholder communications.\nMake rapid, informed decisions in fast-paced environments, providing clarity amid ambiguity.\nDrive senior management communication, including delivery updates, operational readiness, risk assessments, and escalations.\nAll About You\nProven experience leading high-performing software engineering teams.\nHands-on experience with software development using Java, C/C++, or similar object-oriented languages.\nDemonstrated experience designing scalable, secure, highly available, and resilient distributed systems.\nExperience building and operating high-volume, low-latency transaction processing platforms.\nStrong understanding of software architecture, API design, microservices, and event-driven systems.\nStrong understanding of testing practices including unit, functional, integration, and automated testing frameworks.\nExperience with performance engineering, capacity planning, system optimization, and scalability testing.\nStrong understanding of secure coding practices, application security principles, and secure software development lifecycle methodologies.\nStrong understanding of observability, monitoring, operational readiness, and reliability engineering practices.\nDemonstrated ability to apply computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and performance optimization techniques.\nExperience conducting code reviews and establishing engineering quality standards.\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and decision-making abilities.\nAbility to develop and communicate technical vision and engineering strategy.\nStrong enterprise mindset with a focus on business outcomes and cross-functional collaboration.\nProven ability to drive organizational change, technology adoption, and continuous improvement initiatives.\nStrong communication and stakeholder management skills across all levels of the organization.\n• Ability to inspire teams, navigate ambiguity, and consistently deliver results in a complex environment.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  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.\nCorporate Security Responsibility\nAll 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:\nAbide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;\n\nEnsure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;\n\nReport any suspected information security violation or breach, and\n\nComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.\n\nIn 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. 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