Manager, Software Engineering — Connectivity
Mastercard
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Job summary
Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering — Connectivity in Warsaw to lead and grow a cross-functional engineering team responsible for secure, scalable connectivity services across Europe. You will shape technical direction, partner with Product and Security, and drive platform reliability in a high-impact Open Finance environment.
You will guide design decisions, implement best practices, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver business-critical initiatives across multiple
Qualifications
- Proven experience leading and managing software engineering teams delivering cloud-native, highly available applications.
- Strong technical background in backend engineering, API design, distributed systems, and production operations.
- Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams through the full software development lifecycle.
- Experience managing engineering delivery, balancing technical debt, platform reliability, and business priorities.
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills with a passion for developing engineering talent.
- Experience collaborating with Product Management and business stakeholders to translate business objectives into engineering outcomes.
- Experience driving engineering best practices, including code quality, testing, security, DevOps, and operational excellence.
- Familiarity with banking, payments, or Open Banking (PSD2) ecosystems.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of software engineers through coaching, performance management, and career development
- Own engineering execution for multiple initiatives, ensuring high-quality delivery from design through development, deployment, and production support
- Drive technical excellence by promoting engineering best practices, architectural standards, code quality, security, testing, and operational excellence
- Collaborate with Product Management to prioritize work, manage delivery commitments, and align engineering efforts with business objectives
- Partner with Architecture, Security, SRE, and Platform Engineering teams to build scalable, resilient, and secure solutions
- Guide system design and technical decision-making while empowering engineers to solve complex technical challenges
- Establish engineering processes that improve delivery predictability, developer productivity, and operational efficiency
- Ensure production stability through effective monitoring, incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
- Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning across the team
- Drive adoption of automation, CI/CD, observability, and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve engineering velocity and quality
- Support hiring, onboarding, workforce planning, and succession planning to build a strong engineering organization
- Communicate engineering progress, risks, and strategic initiatives to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
Skills
Tools
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.
Manager, Software Engineering — Connectivity
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.
Manager, Software Engineering — Connectivity
This role sits within Mastercard's Open Finance Europe – Connectivity team, responsible for building and operating scalable API connectivity to financial institutions across Europe.
As a Manager, Software Engineering, you will lead a team of software engineers responsible for delivering secure, reliable, and scalable connectivity services. You will combine technical leadership with people management, driving engineering execution, fostering a high-performing team, and ensuring the successful delivery of business-critical initiatives.
You will partner closely with Product, Architecture, Security, and business stakeholders to define engineering priorities, deliver new capabilities, improve platform reliability, and scale integrations across multiple European markets.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of software engineers through coaching, performance management, and career development
- Own engineering execution for multiple initiatives, ensuring high-quality delivery from design through development, deployment, and production support
- Drive technical excellence by promoting engineering best practices, architectural standards, code quality, security, testing, and operational excellence
- Collaborate with Product Management to prioritize work, manage delivery commitments, and align engineering efforts with business objectives
- Partner with Architecture, Security, SRE, and Platform Engineering teams to build scalable, resilient, and secure solutions
- Guide system design and technical decision-making while empowering engineers to solve complex technical challenges
- Establish engineering processes that improve delivery predictability, developer productivity, and operational efficiency
- Ensure production stability through effective monitoring, incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
- Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning across the team
- Drive adoption of automation, CI/CD, observability, and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve engineering velocity and quality
- Support hiring, onboarding, workforce planning, and succession planning to build a strong engineering organization
- Communicate engineering progress, risks, and strategic initiatives to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
- C#, .NET 10, Web APIs
- Java/Spring Boot (preferred)
- Azure (App Services, Blob Storage, Key Vault, CI/CD)
- AWS (Microservices, S3, Redis, CI/CD Pipelines)
- PostgreSQL, Flyway
- Generative AI tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.)
- Proven experience leading and managing software engineering teams delivering cloud-native, highly available applications
- Strong technical background in backend engineering, API design, distributed systems, and production operations
- Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams through the full software development lifecycle
- Experience managing engineering delivery, balancing technical debt, platform reliability, and business priorities
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills with a passion for developing engineering talent
- Experience collaborating with Product Management and business stakeholders to translate business objectives into engineering outcomes
- Experience driving engineering best practices, including code quality, testing, security, DevOps, and operational excellence
- Familiarity with banking, payments, or Open Banking (PSD2) ecosystems
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a data-driven approach to decision-making
- Experience leading teams delivering Open Banking or large-scale financial institution connectivity platforms
- Experience managing geographically distributed engineering teams
- Experience with AI-assisted software development tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.)
- Track record of improving engineering productivity through automation, platform engineering, and DevOps practices
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, cloud governance, and engineering platform modernization }
Corporate Security Responsibility
- 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.
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