Manager, Software Engineering
Mastercard
Mastercard
Join Mastercard's Services organization as a Manager, Software Engineering, and lead the development of advanced analytics applications. You'll work with vast datasets from retail, banking, and other consumer-focused industries, tackling complex problems with innovative product opportunities. Our next-generation platform combines industry-leading analytics, modern software architecture, and the latest web technologies to deliver powerful insights that drive multi-million dollar business decisions. This role is integral to building industry-leading business experimentation software, bringing sophisticated analytic techniques to a global business user base.
Lead and mentor a high-performing software development team, providing coaching and professional development. Offer strategic direction for applications, systems, and software development methodologies. Drive large-scale projects from conception through to release, ensuring high-quality development of complex platform components. Define cutting-edge service-oriented software architectures and actively participate in software development tasks for approximately 50% of your time. Lead feature planning and scoping for the team, and mentor junior engineers, fostering a collaborative environment. Critically review code to enhance quality and play a key role in shaping engineering processes.
Key Responsibilities Include: - Formally supervise, coach, and develop a high-performing development team. - Provide strategic leadership related to specific applications and systems, or software-development methodologies. - Lead large-scale projects from inception to release. - Lead design of major, complex parts of the platform with high-quality development. - Define state-of-the-art service-oriented software architectures. - Spend 50% of your time on active software development tasks. - Lead planning and scoping features for the team. - Build features used by some of the world's largest organizations to make multi-million dollar decisions. - Critically review the code and guide the team with a focus on improving the code quality. - Play a key role in shaping the direction of engineering processes through working on a small team empowered to organize and run the team as they see fit. - Mentor junior engineers and teammates. - Collaborate across teams with exceptional peers who are passionate about what they do.
We seek experienced technologists with a passion for empowering customers through data-driven decisions. The ideal candidate will have proven experience managing and mentoring software development teams, alongside a strong background in full-stack, data, and cloud technologies such as Databricks, AWS (Data Services + Agentic/ML Services including EMR, Agent Core, Bedrock, etc.), .NET/C#, Java, Spring Boot, React, Python, and Spark. A deep understanding of complex problem-solving and implementing scalable solutions is essential. Proficiency in advanced object-oriented programming, design principles, refactoring, microservice development, and database management is required. Experience with AI tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code for enhanced PDLC is highly preferred. You should possess strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills, coupled with motivation, creativity, and self-direction.
Additional Qualifications: - Prior experience leading a team or mentoring other engineers, both technically and professionally, is preferred. - A superior academic record with a degree in Computer Science or a related technical field is expected. - Strong written and verbal English communication skills are necessary.
MasterCard
Financial Services