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
Payments Network Technology is seeking a Manager of Software Engineering to lead teams responsible for building, testing, and operating payment network services. This role combines people leadership with software engineering, automation, resilience, and operational excellence across authorization, clearing, tokenization, and related payment processing platforms.
Roles and Responsibilities
• Lead, coach, and develop software engineers while fostering an inclusive and high-performing engineering culture.
• Manage team capacity, hiring, career development, and succession planning.
• Drive the design, development, testing, and support of Java-based payment applications and services.
• Lead automation, resilience, performance, UAT, and chaos engineering practices across applications and platforms.
• Partner with Product Management, Architecture, and Engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable solutions.
• Drive engineering excellence through automation, CI/CD, observability, and operational readiness.
• Establish quality gates, release readiness criteria, and continuous improvement practices.
• Communicate delivery progress, technical risks, and strategic priorities to stakeholders and leadership.
• Mentor technical leads and support engineering best practices across multiple teams.
Essential Skills
• Experience managing software engineering teams and leading engineers through all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Strong technical background in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Experience with test automation frameworks such as Cucumber, JUnit/TestNG, and API automation tools.
• Knowledge of resilience engineering, performance testing, chaos engineering, and operational excellence practices.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native platforms, observability, and DevOps practices.
• Experience defining engineering metrics and driving process improvements.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
All About You
• Proven experience leading software engineering teams delivering large-scale enterprise platforms.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, automation strategies, and quality engineering practices.
• Experience leading resilience, performance, security, and non-functional testing initiatives.
• Ability to balance people leadership with technical decision-making and execution oversight.
• Experience managing complex cross-functional deliveries involving multiple systems and stakeholder groups.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working across globally distributed engineering, product, architecture, and operations teams.
• Experience applying AI-assisted engineering and validation practices to improve productivity and quality.
• Payments industry experience with authorization, clearing, tokenization, settlement, or transaction processing platforms is required.

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.