Vice President, Software Engineering

Pay by Bank app; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Vice President of Software Engineering to lead the Rules Decision Tooling team. This role involves setting technical vision, managing execution, and fostering innovation in a high-scale environment. The ideal candidate will have proven leadership skills and experience with distributed systems, ensuring excellence in engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Experience with complex, high-scale distributed systems.
• Led an engineering team of at least 50 engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale the Rules Decision Tooling platform.
• Set the technical vision and execution strategy.
• Manage business execution including objectives and performance.

Skills

Relationship Management

Leadership

Agile Development

Collaboration

Job description

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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

Vice President, Software Engineering

Overview

The AI & Decision Product Enablement team enables industry-leading AI and decisioning products for market-facing programs with agility, resiliency, availability, and global scale. We seek a Vice President of Software Engineering to lead our Rules Decision Tooling internal product team and other products within the Decision Management Program (DMP). DMP products deliver intelligence with business agility at a global scale, powering over 40 market-facing products across the Mastercard network while processing billions of transactions daily. The ideal candidate is highly motivated, strategic, collaborative, and a strong leader.

Role

1. Lead and scale the Rules Decision Tooling platform—crucial for real-time decisioning across Mastercard’s ecosystem.
2. Set the technical vision and execution strategy, aligning with business and product stakeholders.
3. Manage business execution including objectives, performance, recruiting, and coaching.
4. Oversee delivery from roadmap to performance management, hiring, and coaching.
5. Foster innovation and a culture of experimentation.
6. Collaborate with product leaders and enterprise architects to align technology with business goals.
7. Maintain engineering excellence through standards for code quality, architecture, reliability, and operational efficiency.
8. Define and track metrics for scalability, resiliency, and productivity.

All About You

• Excellent relationship management skills, professional presence, self-motivated, capable of working with senior leaders, executives, and external clients.
• Proven ability to build capable organizations that deliver results.
• Experience with complex, high-scale distributed systems, decision engines, and real-time data stream solutions.
• Experience supporting platforms serving multiple users, including end customers and internal operations.
• Respected technologist and leadership developer, evidenced by high-quality recruiting and mentoring.
• Led an engineering team of at least 50 engineers in a successful tech company.
• Ability to inspire and engage large teams for collaboration, development, and performance.
• Track record of delivering world-class consumer software platforms.
• Expertise with large-scale distributed systems and platforms.
• Skilled in Agile development and continuous process optimization.

Additional Information

Mastercard is an inclusive, merit-based employer that considers applicants regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristics. In the US or Canada, for accommodations during the application process, contact [e-mail].

Corporate Security Responsibilities

All activities involving Mastercard assets, information, and networks carry inherent risks. Employees must:

• Follow Mastercard’s security policies.
• Ensure confidentiality and integrity of accessed information.
• Report security violations or breaches.
• Complete mandatory security trainings.

Pay Ranges

Vancouver, Canada: $200,000 - $320,000 CAD

Seniority level

• Executive

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Consumer Services