Manager, Software Engineer

MasterCard; Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering for the BE&O team to lead a high-performing software engineering group responsible for full-stack applications, APIs, data processing, and analytics platform services. You will balance people leadership with technical guidance, coaching engineers, and driving architecture and delivery decisions.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams across regions to ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions, while advancing cloud-native

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience in agile environments.
• 3+ years of experience leading software engineers and coaching teams.
• Strong technical leadership with architecture discussions, code reviews, and delivery oversight.
• Full stack background with microservices, REST APIs, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, security, performance, and operational readiness.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure, including containerization and Kubernetes.
• Experience with data-intensive apps, analytics platforms, data pipelines; Databricks, Spark, or PySpark a plus.
• Strong collaboration across Product, Engineering, Data Engineering, QA, Architecture, Operations, and Security teams.
• Experience leading across globally distributed teams and time zones.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or related field; advanced degree is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a high performing team of software engineers through hiring, onboarding, coaching, mentoring, performance management, and career development.
• Foster an inclusive and collaborative engineering culture centered on ownership, accountability, continuous learning, innovation, and engineering excellence.
• Lead the delivery of complex software initiatives from planning through release with clear priorities and high quality outcomes.
• Partner with Product and stakeholders to translate priorities into technical strategy, plans, and milestones.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture discussions, design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on execution when needed.
• Guide the design of scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions using Java, microservices, APIs, cloud platforms, and data technologies.
• Establish and drive engineering best practices across the team (architecture, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, security, performance, readiness).
• Review designs to ensure alignment with standards and long-term maintainability.
• Identify delivery blockers, manage risks, and enable teams to execute across priorities.
• Coordinate delivery with cross-functional teams across regions/time zones for operational readiness.
• Drive modernization via cloud-native tech, automation, reusable components, metrics, and data-driven decisions.

Skills

Full stack

Leadership

Microservices

REST APIs

CI/CD

Automated tests

Observability

Security

Performance

Operational readiness

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Databricks

Spark

PySpark

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Databricks

Spark

PySpark

CI/CD tooling

Job description

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 Manager, Software Engineer Position Title Manager, Software Engineer, BE&O Job Description Summary Position Overview

The Business Experimentation and Optimization (BE&O) team within Mastercard Services is building industry leading software that empowers business users around the world to make data driven decisions through advanced analytics and experimentation. As we expand our product offerings and modernize our technology stack, we are reimagining how we deliver scalable, cloud native solutions to our clients. We are seeking a technically strong Manager, Software Engineering to lead a team of software engineers responsible for designing, building, and operating full stack applications, APIs, data processing capabilities, and analytics platform services. This role requires a balance of people leadership and technical leadership. You will be accountable for building a high performing team, developing engineering talent, guiding technical execution, and delivering high quality software that creates measurable value for Mastercard clients. As an engineering manager, you will coach and mentor engineers across different experience levels, support hiring and performance management, and create an environment where engineers can do their best work. You will also remain technically engaged through architecture discussions, design reviews, code reviews, technical decision making, hands on execution, and engineering delivery planning. You will partner closely with cross functional teams and teams across regions and time zones to align priorities, manage dependencies, and deliver cohesive, enterprise grade solutions.

Position Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a high performing team of software engineers through hiring, onboarding, coaching, mentoring, performance management, career development, and succession planning.
• Foster an inclusive and collaborative engineering culture centered on ownership, accountability, continuous learning, innovation, and engineering excellence.
• Lead the delivery of complex software initiatives from planning through release, ensuring clear priorities, effective execution, and high quality outcomes.
• Partner with Product and business stakeholders to translate business priorities into technical strategy, delivery plans, and execution milestones.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture discussions, system design reviews, code reviews, technical decision making, implementation planning, and hands on execution when needed.
• Guide the design and development of scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions using modern technologies, including Java, microservices, APIs, cloud platforms, and data technologies.
• Establish and drive engineering best practices across the team, including software architecture, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, security, performance, and operational readiness.
• Review technical designs and implementation approaches to ensure alignment with engineering standards, long term maintainability, and platform architecture.
• Identify and remove delivery blockers, manage risks and dependencies, and enable teams to execute effectively across competing priorities.
• Partner closely with cross functional teams and teams across regions and time zones to align priorities, coordinate delivery, and ensure operational readiness.
• Drive continuous improvement and modernization initiatives through adoption of cloud native technologies, automation, reusable components, engineering metrics, and data driven decision making.

Ideal Candidate Qualifications

The ideal candidate is a strong engineering leader who can develop people, guide technical execution, and deliver complex software outcomes through a high performing team. They bring credibility from a solid full stack engineering background and are comfortable operating across product, engineering, architecture, data, security, and operations stakeholders.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including hands on experience designing and delivering production software in an agile environment.
• 3+ years of experience leading or managing software engineers, with a proven ability to build high performing teams through coaching, mentoring, performance management, career development, and talent planning.
• Strong technical leadership and judgment, with experience guiding architecture discussions, design reviews, code reviews, technical decisions, and delivery of complex software initiatives.
• Strong full stack engineering background with expertise in modern software development practices, including microservices, RESTful APIs, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, security, performance engineering, and operational readiness.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure, including containerization, Kubernetes, and modern deployment and operational practices is a plus.
• Experience with data intensive applications, analytics platforms, data pipelines, or large scale data processing; experience with Databricks, Spark, or PySpark is a plus.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to partner effectively across Product, Engineering, Data Engineering, QA, Architecture, Operations, and Security teams.
• Experience leading and coordinating delivery across globally distributed teams and multiple time zones.
• Strong problem solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity, balance technical and business priorities, drive continuous improvement, and improve team effectiveness, software quality, and delivery predictability.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• An advanced degree is a plus.

Mastercard is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. Applicants will be considered and treated without regard to gender, gender identity, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disabled status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must: Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices; Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed; Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them. Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along. Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights. People need financial access; we connect them. Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple. Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way. Governments need greater efficiencies; we help create them. Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers. Retailers want to fight fraud; we provide the tools.