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 EngineeringJob Description Summary

Job Overview:

Providing Innovative, Secure, and Reliable Switching Solutions is the lifeblood of Mastercard Core Products, we are currently seeking a passionate, collaborative, and experienced software engineering leader to join the Network Solutions team.

Are you a collaborator capable of communicating effectively with Business and IT stakeholders across all organizational levels?

Are you an innovator who embraces, adopts, and studies the latest technology to solve challenging business problems?

Are you a leader who inspires the team to think “out of the box” and effectively communicates across all levels of the organization?

If this describes you, We want to talk to you about the creation of the new team in O’Fallon, MO that will support the Network Solutions charter.

Role:

- Formally supervises, coaches, and develops a work group/team

- Complies with goal setting and performance appraisal process

- Monitors objectives and drive performance of the team.

- Provides strategic leadership related to specific applications and systems, or software-development methodologies

- Ensure quality of one or more application codebases and alignment with development standards.

- Applies technical capabilities within own discipline to coach and develop junior employees.

- Researching and evaluating tools to support domain-specific needs. Also assists in vendor assessment and selection process.

- Partners with Domain Owners and P&E Payment Networks team to identify innovative solutions and drive strategic decisions.

- Designs highly complex applications, interfaces and integration with a modest number of systems.

- Responsible for performance engineering of the enterprise software architecture, and providing functional guidance, advice, and/or training to other application developers.

- Group-wide and external public speaking and other communications conveying domain level directions

- Significant advanced code development, commitment of code/review of pull-requests, and extensive day-to-day support duties.

- Embraces and champions use of AI across the group.

All About You:

- Proven experience leading all aspects of technology solutions delivery, from definition through operations/run.

- Must have People Management experience 2-3 years and should have leadership qualities

- 8+ years of experience in product/framework/tools development, upgrades, and production support for defects, vulnerability fixes, compliance & migrations

- 5+ years of experience with multiple diverse (cross functional) teams, working ability with strong matrix organization, experience conducting formal performance reviews

- Understanding of and advanced experience with Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies.

- Engineering experience, preferably in high volume, low latency transaction processing systems (such as payments transaction switching, high frequency trading systems or global real-time event streaming systems etc.)

- Experience with various coding languages Java, Go, C++,ESQL, etc.

- Delivered scalable products through a CI/CD pipeline deploying on-prem or in a public cloud infrastructure.

- Strong writing and verbal communication skills

Preferred Skills:

- Experienced in event driven systems (Apache Kafka, NATS, etc)

- Experienced in building platforms with Microservice architecture and RESTful APIs.

- Experience using cloud-native approaches running on Linux, leveraging Spring Boot

- Experience with virtualization like Cloud Foundry(PCF), Kubernetes (PKS), Docker etc.

- Experience in CI/CD pipeline creation via Jenkins

- Exposure to AI assisted development processes

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Computer ScienceMastercard 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 [email protected] 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.

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.

In 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. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations. THIS POSTING RELECTS ONE OR MORE CURRENT VACANCIES ON OUR TEAM, AND MASTERCARD INTENDS TO FILL THIS POSITION BY 09/07/2026. If the fill date has passed, Mastercard intends to fill this position as soon as possible.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $140,000 - $231,000 USD