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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\nSenior Vice President, Software EngineeringSenior Vice President, Software Engineering - Decision Stream Engineering Co-FounderJob Description Summary\nWho is Mastercard?\nMastercard 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.\nOur 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.\nOverview\nDecision Stream is Mastercard's next-generation, AI-native decisioning platform designed to deliver intelligent, real-time decisioning across payments, fraud, authentication, and adjacent risk domains. The platform is being built as a startup-style venture within Mastercard, combining the speed and innovation of a product startup with the scale, security, and reach of an enterprise platform.\nWe are seeking an Engineering Co-Founder to lead the engineering vision, architecture execution, talent strategy, and platform delivery for Decision Stream. This leader will partner closely with Product, Architecture, AI, Platform, and Foundry teams to build an industry-leading, cloud-native decisioning platform that redefines how decisions are made across Mastercard's ecosystem.\nEngineering Leadership & Strategy\nEstablish and execute the engineering vision for Decision Stream.\nDrive engineering priorities, technical investment decisions, and platform evolution.\nCreate a high-performance culture built on ownership, innovation, accountability, and speed.\nPartner with executive leadership to define long-term technology strategy and roadmap.\nPlatform & Architecture\nLead the development of a cloud-native, AI-native decisioning platform capable of operating at Mastercard scale.\nDrive architectural decisions across streaming, orchestration, rules execution, AI inference, observability, resiliency, and platform services.\nEnsure platform reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence.\nBalance rapid experimentation with enterprise-grade engineering discipline.\nTalent & Organization\nBuild and scale world-class engineering teams across platform engineering, AI, distributed systems, and product development.\nDevelop a lean operating model built around empowered cross-functional pods.\nProduct & Business Partnership\nPartner closely with the Product Co-Founder to align engineering investments with customer outcomes and business objectives.\nWork collaboratively across Product, Architecture, Foundry, Operations, and AI teams as one integrated leadership team.\nDrive a culture where engineering teams own outcomes\nExecution & Delivery\nLead the platform through MVP validation, commercialization readiness, and scaled adoption.\nEstablish engineering metrics, governance, and operating rhythms.\nDrive rapid iteration cycles focused on learning, experimentation, and measurable outcomes.\nRemove organizational barriers and accelerate decision making across teams\nCreate an environment where innovation and accountability coexist.\nQualifications\nLeadership Expectations:\nOperate as an entrepreneur and builder.\nDemonstrate bias for action and comfort with ambiguity.\nMake decisions quickly using data and customer insights.\nFoster radical transparency and cross-functional collaboration.\nInspire teams through vision, technical credibility, and execution excellence.\nChallenge conventional thinking while remaining focused on business outcomes.\nRequired\nEngineering leadership experience.\nProven experience building and scaling large-scale distributed platforms.\nDeep expertise in cloud-native architecture, microservices, event-driven systems, and modern software engineering practices.\nDemonstrated success leading engineering organizations through transformation and growth.\nExperience delivering platforms requiring high availability, resiliency, and performance at significant scale.\nStrong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.\nPreferred\nExperience with AI/ML product platforms and intelligent decisioning systems.\nExpertise in streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, or similar event-processing architectures.\nExperience in payments, fraud, risk, authentication, or financial services technology.\nBackground building startup ventures, innovation labs, or greenfield platforms.\nRecord of leading globally distributed engineering organizations.\nCorporate Security Responsibility\nEvery person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position must:\nAbide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;\nEnsure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;\nReport any suspected information security violation or breach, and\nComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines\nTotal Base Pay Range 220,000.00 - 400,000.00 USD AnnualMastercard 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. 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. 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