Manager, Software Engineering - Java, Springboot, Kafka, SQL

Mastercard; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard in India is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering for Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and SQL. You will lead and coach multiple engineering teams, drive product delivery, and collaborate with business and product owners to build scalable backend services.

You will mentor engineers, enforce secure coding practices, and guide containerized, CI/CD pipelines across platforms (Jenkins, Bamboo, AWS/Azure). This role emphasizes strategic thinking, budget management, and people development.

Qualifications

• IT leadership with track record managing 15+ teams and cross-functional influence.
• Proven design and development experiences in Java technologies and secure coding standards (OWASP, CWE).
• Experience building applications using open frameworks (Spring Boot, REACT, Angular, DXP).
• Understanding of operating systems (Windows, Linux) for interoperable, performant code.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core dumps and fix issues.
• Ability to document and coach teams on development practices and coding guidelines.
• Familiarity with design patterns (MVC, API gateway, DI) and refactoring to improve code quality.
• Ability to drive prioritization discussions with stakeholders based on technical debt and run experience.
• Knowledge of platform/infrastructure capacity planning and deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Formally supervise and coach 3+ engineering teams delivering multiple applications/services.
• Collaborate with business/product owners to deliver new services and product bundles.
• Set annual objectives and development plans, review progress throughout the year.
• Recruit and hire talent, aiming to bring in top performers.
• Conduct regular 1-1s, mentor staff and support career development.
• Promote Mastercard Way behaviours through coaching and engagement.
• Manage budgets, forecasting and cost allocation to meet business needs.
• Provide strategic leadership for diverse applications and systems and development methodologies.
• Share knowledge across Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns and accelerate delivery.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Kafka

SQL

Leadership

Team management

Security

CI/CD

Cloud

Tools

Jenkins

Bamboo

AWS

Azure

Git

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 Engineering - Java, Springboot, Kafka, SQL

Job Description Summary

All About Us

MasterCard is a technology company in the global payments business. We connect consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses worldwide and enable them to use secure and convenient electronic forms of payment.

Join the industry’s most passionate, motivated & engaged global team - Our employees are encouraged to drive innovation every day in support of a more connected world – A World Beyond Cash.

Overview

• Do you believe that timely delivery and supporting directs can peacefully co-exist?
• Are you a self-motivated critical thinker who cultivates innovative ideas?
• Want to feel your spine tingle by thwarting credit card fraudsters across the globe?

The Transaction Resilience team develops new products for Mastercard's Cyber & Intelligence organization. We protect the payment network ecosystem and aim to deny credit card scammers. Our industry-leading applications scrutinize billions of transactions per month, bolstering the ecosystem and defending cardholders from fraud attacks every second of every day. The Manager position will play a critical role in the coordination of new product functionality within this product portfolio including world-class backend and consumer-facing features.

Role

• Formally supervise and coach 3+ teams of engineers to build, enhance, and support multiple applications/services in the delivery of internal or market-facing Products, Platforms, or Product bundles
• Work with business/product owners to develop and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles
• Ensure objectives and development plans are established at the start of the year and reviewed continuously throughout the year
• Recruit and hire the right talent, always bringing in someone better than at least half the individuals in the role
• Continuously engage and improve teams’ performance by conducting recurring 1-1 meetings, knowing your people, managing career development, and understanding who is at risk
• Provide and facilitate timely feedback, coaching in the moment, and mentoring for staff at all levels
• Emulate and drive Mastercard Way behaviors through their behavior, recognitions, coaching, and employee engagement
• Manage and optimize budgets, forecasting, and cost allocation while delivering on business needs in the area of ownership
• Provide strategic thinking and leadership related to a wide range of applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
• Benchmark and drive engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance in the areas of ownership
• Proactively share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity

All About You

• IT experience with successful track record in managing small scale development organization (15+ teams) with demonstrated thought-leadership, cross-functional influence, and partnership
• Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in Java technologies, secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management.
• Has skills in building applications using open frameworks to achieve reuse and reduce development times (e.g., Spring Boot, REACT, Angular, DXP, others)
• Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to deliver interoperable and performant code
• Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyse core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors
• Has skills to document and coach team on the development practices and coding guidelines (e.g., branching, peer reviews, library use, logging, scanning rules, test-driven development, error handling)
• Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading, all from the gang of four) to implement efficient code
• Has skills to undertake a technical review of code across applications and their dependencies to look for anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring
• Understands and elaborates technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritization discussions with stakeholders to improve the run experience.
• Understands system architecture to plan for platform and infrastructure capacity (e.g., database, compute, network, storage) and drives the dependency prioritization to reduce the delivery lead time
• Has skills to understand customer journeys and ensure a good customer experience by continuously reducing mean time to mitigate (MTTM) for incidents and ensuring high availability (99.95% as a starting point)
• Has skills to simplify deployment and eliminate software and infrastructure snowflakes using standardized platforms, instances, and automation
• Has skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD using industry-standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, AWS/Azure pipelines, XL Release, others)
• Able to configure rules and build automation for code with vulnerability scanning and software composition analysis using standard tools (e.g., Sonar, Checkmarx, Nexus, JFrog XRay, Veracode, others)
• Has skills to define, organize, and report on test runs for major, minor, and hotfix releases (including unit, component level, system level, customer journeys, past customer issues, and regulatory controls)
• Has skills to conduct various performance tests (e.g., load, spike, breakpoint, endurance) to understand application/service limits and behaviours.

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.