Join Mastercard, a global leader connecting and powering an inclusive digital economy. We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead high-performing teams in building scalable and reliable backend systems for our Payment Networks. This role is crucial for driving technical delivery, ensuring engineering excellence, and fostering team growth while tackling complex challenges in global payment ecosystems.

If you are passionate about low-latency, high-volume, and highly available systems, and thrive on working with scalable backend and data-intensive platforms, this opportunity is for you. You will contribute to systems handling massive transaction volumes, ensuring secure access to backend services at a global scale.

This role demands strong technical leadership and execution. You will drive the architecture and design of high-performance backend systems, guiding teams in developing services with Java, Spring Boot, and REST APIs. Ensuring systems are built for high throughput, reliable data access, and adherence to engineering best practices is key. You will own end-to-end delivery, from planning to production, proactively managing risks and dependencies.

Operational excellence is paramount, focusing on system reliability, scalability, and performance. You will champion monitoring, observability, and incident management. Furthermore, you will lead and develop high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement. This includes mentoring, providing feedback, and supporting career development for engineers.

We are looking for candidates with over 10 years of software engineering experience, including significant leadership experience. A strong track record in delivering large-scale, distributed backend systems is essential. Hands-on expertise with Java, Spring Boot, and REST-based services, along with experience in microservices and event-driven architectures, is required. A solid understanding of data storage systems (RDBMS/NoSQL) and data access patterns is necessary.

Familiarity with messaging platforms like Kafka, CI/CD, containerization, and cloud-native development is important. You should possess a strong grasp of system reliability, observability, and performance tuning, coupled with excellent problem-solving and stakeholder management skills. Experience mentoring engineers and leading teams is a core requirement for this role. All individuals are expected to uphold Mastercard's security policies and practices.