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

Overview:

The Marketing Services team is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to provide technical and people leadership for a multidisciplinary engineering team. This role will partner closely with product and technology stakeholders to deliver scalable, reusable and user-focused platform capabilities, with an emphasis on engineering quality, efficient execution and on-time delivery.

The ideal candidate combines a strong Java and software engineering foundation with proven people-management experience. You will lead a distributed team of software, user interface, data engineering and data science professionals while remaining close enough to the technology to review solutions, challenge estimates and guide architecture and delivery decisions.

Role:

• Lead, coach and develop a team of approximately 6–8 engineers across front-end, back-end, data engineering and data science disciplines, including performance management, career development and difficult performance conversations when required.
• Provide technical leadership and ownership for the architecture, design and delivery of new platform capabilities.
• Partner closely with product management and other stakeholders to translate business needs into clear technical requirements and delivery plans.
• Remain hands-on as needed by contributing code, reviewing engineering work and constructively challenging technical approaches, estimates and trade-offs.
• Design and develop RESTful APIs, microservices and backend services using Java, Spring Boot and related technologies.
• Guide the development of highly available, scalable, reusable and fault-tolerant solutions across user interface, application, data and integration layers.
• Assess technologies and approaches for connecting backend data services with modern user experiences.
• Promote strong engineering practices across system design, architecture, CI/CD, automated testing, code quality, security, reliability and production readiness.
• Lead or contribute to proofs of concept and broader technical initiatives, including the evaluation of technologies, frameworks, methodologies and vendor solutions.
• Work across geographically distributed teams and communicate technical solutions and architecture clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

All About You:

• Proven people-management experience, including performance reviews, career development, coaching and navigating performance improvement plans or other difficult performance conversations.
• Strong software engineering foundation with hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Ability to review code and designs, assess technical estimates and provide credible guidance to experienced engineers.
Strong understanding of system design and architecture for large, complex and distributed platforms.
• Experience with modern web development technologies such as React or Angular, Node.js, GraphQL or comparable frameworks and tools.
• Understanding of domain-driven design, event-driven architecture and integration patterns.
• Experience with CI/CD practices and tools such as Jenkins, along with automated testing using JUnit, Mockito and behavior-driven development frameworks.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to connect people leadership, technical quality and delivery outcomes.
• Demonstrated focus on scalability, reusability, usability and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to explain technical solutions and architecture to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments, with the ability to adapt quickly to new technologies and changing priorities.

Preferred Experience:

• Knowledge of data engineering and exposure to data science workflows or platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes, including application or platform migrations from on-premises environments to Kubernetes.
• Exposure to generative AI and practical GenAI adoption or use cases.
• Experience leading teams distributed across multiple locations or time zones.

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 [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 01/21/2027. If the fill date has passed, Mastercard intends to fill this position as soon as possible.

Pay Ranges

Atlanta, Georgia: $140,000 - $231,000 USD