Lead Software Engineer for Authentication Platform

Mastercard; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering in Dublin to lead a team delivering Authentication Decisioning capabilities within the Decision Management Platform, ensuring real-time authentication, risk decisions and secure, scalable services.

You will partner with Product, Architecture, SRE and Programme teams to drive roadmap execution, improve reliability and performance, and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement across a distributed, cloud-native environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams delivering large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong technical background in backend software development, system design and cloud-native or service-oriented architectures.
• Experience operating mission-critical platforms with demanding availability, resilience and performance requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to build and develop high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across technical and business organisations.
• Experience driving engineering execution in a fast-paced environment with multiple competing priorities.
• Passion for operational excellence, software quality and continuous improvement.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical challenges into clear business outcomes.
• Comfortable working with AI-driven decisioning platforms, data-intensive systems and real-time transaction processing environments.
• Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, make sound technical decisions and deliver measurable business impact.

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

Job description

Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering in Dublin to lead a team delivering Authentication Decisioning capabilities within the Decision Management Platform, ensuring real-time authentication, risk decisions and secure, scalable services.

You will partner with Product, Architecture, SRE and Programme teams to drive roadmap execution, improve reliability and performance, and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement across a distributed, cloud-native environment.