Engineering Manager, Real-Time Authentication Platform

Appcast Enterprise; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard Ireland is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead a team responsible for Authentication Decisioning capabilities within the Decision Management Platform. You will balance people leadership, technical execution and operational excellence to deliver customer and business outcomes.

You will partner with Product, Architecture, SRE and Programme teams to drive strategic roadmap initiatives, ensuring reliability, performance and secure software development in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams delivering large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong background in backend development, system design and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience operating mission-critical platforms with demanding availability and performance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing software engineering team.
• Drive delivery of strategic roadmap initiatives, balancing feature development, platform modernisation and technical debt reduction.
• Partner with architects and senior engineers to define scalable, resilient and secure solutions.
• Ensure operational excellence through strong ownership of reliability, performance, availability and incident management.
• Champion engineering best practices including CI/CD, automated testing, observability and secure software development.
• Collaborate across Engineering, Product, Security, Operations and Customer-facing teams to align priorities and execute effectively.
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous learning and customer focus.
• Support hiring, performance management, succession planning and employee development.
• Drive improvements in developer productivity, engineering efficiency and software quality

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Job description

Mastercard Ireland is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead a team responsible for Authentication Decisioning capabilities within the Decision Management Platform. You will balance people leadership, technical execution and operational excellence to deliver customer and business outcomes.

You will partner with Product, Architecture, SRE and Programme teams to drive strategic roadmap initiatives, ensuring reliability, performance and secure software development in a fast-paced