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

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.


We are the global technology company behind the world’s fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.


Our Team Within Mastercard
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.


Merchant Loyalty Program - SessionM offers a full suite of technology and services to deliver a customized end-to-end loyalty marketing solution that makes your customers happier and businesses more profitable. Our product team loves solving complex problems utilizing data and analytics, but we also obsess about customer experience. 


Responsibilities:

* Manage, coach, and develop a cross-functional engineering team.
* Provide strategic technical and product direction for applications, architectures, and software development processes.
* Design and develop new, complex technical products from inception to release.
* Partner with product development on the product roadmap, scoping features, and planning releases.
* Champion technical innovation and high quality within the team.
* Collaborate across teams and business units to solve complex problems.
* Lead goal setting and accountability practices within the engineering team.
* Continuously experiment and innovate to develop a high performing engineering team.
* Be a strong contributor to the implementation efforts of product solutions .
* Lead with an agile mindset and pivot fast and often as new information


surfaces.
* Keep senior stakeholders informed of progress and incorporate input into technical decisions.
* Identify short term and long-term engineering needs to scale platform solutions to meet customer demand.


Ideal Candidate Qualifications:
* Academic degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
* Few years of full stack engineering experience in an agile production environment.
* Experience leading engineering teams, leading the design and implementation of large, complex features in full-stack applications.
* Proficiency with React or other Frontend frameworks is a big plus
* Experience with SQL Server or other relational database technologies.
* Experience in adopting a customer-centric development approach.
* Excellent Analytical and problem-solving skills.

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.