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
Overview
This position supports the Decision Data Caching product within Mastercard's Decision Management program. Decision Management enables faster, smarter decisioning at global scale by structuring and applying complex business logic across the payment journey and beyond. Decision Data Caching provides in-memory storage platform for easy access by Transaction Processing services to prevent fraud. Our platform orchestrates high throughput, low latency, and data-intensive processing across Decision Management's intelligent systems on behalf of a suite of market-facing products.
This position is responsible for working on behalf of those market-facing products to directly and indirectly lead teams of program managers, product managers, and software engineers to deliver enhancements across the Decision Management platform. More so than most technical management roles, this position requires a patient empathy to relate to and understand the needs of our partners and an organizational savvy to find creative and co-beneficial ways forward when the ability to execute requires coordination beyond your direct team.
The Manager, Software Engineering role is a model for the Mastercard Way of creating value, moving fast, and growing together.
Role Responsibilities:
Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions and policies.
Provide dedicated and hands-on people leadership over a scrum team through guided personal development plans, performance reviews, and technical guidance.
Form deep and meaningful relationships with our partners in product to better understand the market and to create a sense of united urgency to deliver.
Intrinsically understanding the priorities of the business-working collaboratively to create strategic roadmaps and their delivery while balancing against short term regulatory and operational needs-and then speaking with an authoritative voice to align your teams and partners on what's most important-even when it's not what they want.
All About You:
Proficient with different application patterns to implement different types of business processes (e.g., APIs, event-driven-services, cloud technologies, batch-services, web-applications, big data).
Hands-on experience with data-intensive programming in Java, REST API, Microservices, Kafka, Axon, MQ, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Jenkins, and Spring.
Seasoned in leading teams to deliver large and complex releases on-time and budget.
Well-versed in SDLC practices (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) and the nuances/applicability of their use in a variety of delivery situations.
An expert in using basic engineering principles for building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture).
Education
Required undergraduate degree in Computer Science or in a STEM-intensive degree program with related experience in software engineering.
Preferred graduate degree in Computer Science or Business with related experience in fintech and payments.
This is a hybrid position based in Mastercard's O'Fallon Main Campus, requiring three days on-site per week.
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 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 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.
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
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