Engineering Manager – Real-Time Auth Platform

Appcast Enterprise; Town of Kildare (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead a team responsible for building, scaling and operating Authentication Decisioning capabilities. You will balance people leadership with technical execution and work with Product, Architecture, SRE and Programme teams to deliver customer and business outcomes.

The ideal candidate brings experience leading large-scale distributed systems, strong backend and cloud-native architecture skills, and a proven ability to drive reliability and

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineering teams delivering large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong backend development and system design skills.
• Experience operating mission-critical platforms with high availability and performance.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing software engineering team.
• Drive strategic roadmap delivery balancing features and tech debt.
• Partner with architects to define scalable, secure solutions.
• Ensure reliability, performance, availability and incident management.
• Champion CI/CD, automated testing, observability, secure software.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align priorities.
• Support hiring, performance reviews and development.
• Drive improvements in developer productivity and software quality.

Skills

Team leadership

Backend development

Cloud-native

System design

Reliability & performance

CI/CD & testing

Observability

Stakeholder Mgmt

Ambiguity navigation

Communication

Tools

Rules engines

AI/ML platforms

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead a team responsible for building, scaling and operating Authentication Decisioning capabilities. You will balance people leadership with technical execution and work with Product, Architecture, SRE and Programme teams to deliver customer and business outcomes.

The ideal candidate brings experience leading large-scale distributed systems, strong backend and cloud-native architecture skills, and a proven ability to drive reliability and