Manager, Software Engineering

Mastercard; O’Fallon (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard in O’Fallon, MO seeks an experienced software engineering leader to form a new Network Solutions team. You will supervise and coach a capable group, drive performance, and shape strategic tech decisions for high-availability payment systems.

You will design complex integrations, mentor developers, and collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to deliver innovative switching solutions. Strong leadership and deep software engineering expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading all aspects of technology solutions delivery, from definition through operations/run.
• People Management experience 2-3 years and leadership qualities.
• 8+ years of experience in product/framework/tools development, upgrades, and production support for defects, vulnerability fixes, compliance & migrations.
• 5+ years of experience with multiple diverse teams in a matrix organization.

Responsibilities

• Formally supervises, coaches, and develops a work group/team.
• Monitors objectives and drives performance of the team.
• Provides strategic leadership related to applications and software-development methodologies.
• Ensures quality of one or more codebases and alignment with development standards.
• Researches and evaluates tools to support domain-specific needs.
• Partners with Domain Owners and Payment Networks to drive strategic decisions.
• Designs highly complex applications, interfaces, and integrations across systems.
• Leads performance engineering of enterprise software architecture and guides developers.
• Engages in advanced code development and day-to-day support duties.
• Embraces AI across the group.

Skills

Java

Go

C++

ESQL

CI/CD

High performance systems

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Jenkins

Cloud Foundry

Kubernetes

Docker

Spring Boot

Linux

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.

Job Overview

Providing Innovative, Secure, and Reliable Switching Solutions is the lifeblood of Mastercard Core Products. We are currently seeking a passionate, collaborative, and experienced software engineering leader to join the Network Solutions team. Are you a collaborator capable of communicating effectively with Business and IT stakeholders across all organizational levels? Are you an innovator who embraces, adopts, and studies the latest technology to solve challenging business problems? Are you a leader who inspires the team to think “out of the box” and effectively communicates across all levels of the organization? If this describes you, we want to talk to you about creating the new team in O’Fallon, MO that will support the Network Solutions charter.

Role

• Formally supervises, coaches, and develops a work group/team
• Complies with goal setting and performance appraisal process
• Monitors objectives and drives performance of the team
• Provides strategic leadership related to specific applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
• Ensures quality of one or more application codebases and alignment with development standards
• Applies technical capabilities within own discipline to coach and develop junior employees
• Researches and evaluates tools to support domain-specific needs, and assists in vendor assessment and selection process
• Partners with Domain Owners and P&E Payment Networks team to identify innovative solutions and drive strategic decisions
• Designs highly complex applications, interfaces, and integrations with a modest number of systems
• Responsible for performance engineering of the enterprise software architecture, and provides functional guidance, advice, and/or training to other application developers
• Group-wide and external public speaking and other communications conveying domain level directions
• Engages in significant advanced code development, code/review of pull-requests, and extensive day-to-day support duties
• Embraces and champions use of AI across the group

All About You

• Proven experience leading all aspects of technology solutions delivery, from definition through operations/run
• People Management experience 2-3 years and should have leadership qualities
• 8+ years of experience in product/framework/tools development, upgrades, and production support for defects, vulnerability fixes, compliance & migrations
• 5+ years of experience with multiple diverse (cross-functional) teams, working ability with strong matrix organization, experience conducting formal performance reviews
• Understanding of and advanced experience with Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies
• Engineering experience, preferably in high volume, low latency transaction processing systems (such as payments transaction switching, high frequency trading systems or global real-time event streaming systems etc.)
• Experience with various coding languages Java, Go, C++, ESQL, etc.
• Delivered scalable products through a CI/CD pipeline deploying on-prem or in a public cloud infrastructure
• Strong writing and verbal communication skills

Preferred Skills

• Experienced in event driven systems (Apache Kafka, NATS, etc)
• Experienced in building platforms with Microservice architecture and RESTful APIs
• Experience using cloud-native approaches running on Linux, leveraging Spring Boot
• Experience with virtualization like Cloud Foundry (PCF), Kubernetes (PKS), Docker etc.
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline creation via Jenkins
• Exposure to AI assisted development processes

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Equal Opportunity Employment

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [e-mail] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines

Compensation & Benefits

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $140,000 - $231,000 USD