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
• Do you believe that timely delivery and supporting directs can peacefully co-exist?
• Are you a self-motivated critical thinker who cultivates innovative ideas?
• Want to feel your spine tingle by thwarting credit card fraudsters across the globe?
The Payment Resiliency team develops new products for Mastercard's Services organization. We protect the payment network ecosystem and aim to deny credit card scammers. Our industry-leading applications scrutinize billions of transactions, bolstering the ecosystem and defending cardholders from fraud attacks every second of every day. The Manager position will play a critical role in the coordination of new product functionality within this product portfolio including world-class backend and consumer-facing features.
Role
• Supervise and mentor 2+ engineering teams, providing guidance, career development, and performance management to ensure high-quality application delivery and continuous team improvement.
• Partner with business and product owners to develop new services, enhance products, and align engineering initiatives with business objectives.
• Conduct frequent reviews to maintain operational resiliency, ensuring applications are robust, secure, and meet performance standards.
• Recruit top engineering talent, focusing on building high-performing teams and developing individuals through coaching and timely feedback.
• Oversee budget, forecasting, and resource allocation, ensuring alignment with business needs and efficient delivery of objectives.
• Promote knowledge sharing, drive engineering productivity, and ensure compliance with technology standards to foster innovation and reuse across teams.
All About You
• Proven experience managing 2+ engineering teams with cross-functional influence, driving development efforts, and ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Strong background in Java technologies, secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), vulnerability management, and building applications using open frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot, Angular).
• Proficient in debugging and analyzing core, heap, and thread dumps to resolve coding errors and optimize code performance.
• Skilled in documenting and coaching teams on development practices such as code reviews, test-driven development, error handling, and continuous refactoring.
• Expertise in system architecture, platform/infrastructure capacity planning, and simplifying deployment through automation, standardized platforms, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Focused on customer journey optimization, ensuring high availability (99.95%) and reducing incident resolution time, while conducting performance tests to understand system limits and behaviors.
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Mastercard is an 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. 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 based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. 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 new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 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, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $138,000 - $221,000 USD