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

Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead the design, development, modernization, and support of scalable, high-volume applications within the Card Payments ecosystem.

The ideal candidate will bring a combination of strong technical leadership, people management, Java engineering expertise, payment domain knowledge, and AI-driven engineering practices.

Key Expectations

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, technical leads, and senior developers.
• Drive end-to-end delivery of enterprise-scale Java applications and microservices.
• Provide technical leadership for architecture, design reviews, code quality, security, and operational excellence.
• Build and support highly available, resilient, and scalable payment processing platforms.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Operations, and Business teams to deliver strategic initiatives.
• Champion Agile, DevOps, and cloud-native engineering practices.

Technical Expertise

• Strong hands-on experience with Java 11/17+, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, Kafka, and Distributed Systems.
• Experience with AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and Observability platforms.
• Deep understanding of modern software architecture, cloud transformation, and platform modernization.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead the design and development of enterprise-scale Java applications and microservices.
• Drive architecture discussions and technical decision-making.
• Ensure engineering best practices, coding standards, security, and performance optimization.
• Review system designs, code quality, and production readiness.
• Champion modernization initiatives and cloud-native development.

People Management

• Manage and mentor a team of software engineers and technical leads.
• Conduct performance reviews, career development discussions, and coaching sessions.
• Support hiring, onboarding, succession planning, and talent development.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performance engineering culture.

Delivery & Execution

• Own end-to-end delivery of projects and releases.
• Drive Agile ceremonies and ensure predictable sprint execution.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and cross-functional coordination.
• Ensure operational excellence, reliability, and supportability of applications.

Required Technical Skills

Core Java

• Java 8/11/17+
• Multithreading & Concurrency
• Collections Framework
• JVM Performance Tuning
• Memory Management

Frameworks & Technologies

• Spring Boot
• Spring MVC
• Spring Security
• Spring Batch
• Hibernate/JPA

API & Integration

• REST APIs
• Microservices Architecture
• API Gateway
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Kafka or Messaging Platforms

Database Technologies

• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• SQL Optimization
• NoSQL Databases (MongoDB/Cassandra preferred)

Cloud & DevOps

• AWS/Azure/GCP
• Docker
• Kubernetes/OpenShift
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Jenkins/GitHub Actions
• Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring & Observability

• Splunk
• Dynatrace
• Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Required Experience

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of people management experience.
• Proven experience leading Java development teams.
• Experience delivering large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong background in Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Experience working with cloud-native architectures and microservices.
• Deep understanding of card payments, transaction lifecycles, and payment network operations.
• Ability to translate business and payment processing requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Experience leading engineering teams responsible for critical payment platforms and customer-facing payment services.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for resolving complex payment processing and settlement issues.
• Familiarity with modernization of legacy payment systems into cloud-native microservices architectures.

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.