Manager, Software Engineering

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 The Platform Services group is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard’s market-facing and core technology platforms. This includes foundational services such as the API Gateway, Event Gateway, and File Transfer Services.

We are seeking a Vice President, Software Engineering to join our St. Louis team, focusing on building and operating our Global File Transfer platform. This platform supports secure, seamless data transfers across Mastercard’s global infrastructure—including Mastercard’s next-generation switch.

This is an exciting senior engineering leadership role within a globally distributed team, passionate about delivering resilient, scalable solutions to our customers.

Role As a Manager, Software Engineering, you will:
Lead strategic technical direction for applications, architectures, and development processes.
Lead and push the boundaries of analytics and powerful, scalable applications
Act as a key contributor to product implementation while empowering your team
Lead with an agile mindset, adapting to changes quickly and guiding your team to pivot when needed.
Coach, mentor, and develop a cross-functional engineering team to deliver high-quality solutions and well-tested code
Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
Collaborate across teams and business units to solve complex technical problems and ensure alignment.
Partner with Product Managers and Customer Experience Designers to define roadmaps, scope features, and plan releases.
Ensure projects meet customer demands while scaling platform solutions for future growth.

All about you:

• 10+ years of engineering experience in an agile production environment.
• Experience leading the design and implementation of complex features in full-stack applications.
• Proficiency with object-oriented languages, preferably Java/ Spring, alternatively C#

Fluent in the use of Git, Jenkins.
• Solid experience with RESTful APIs and JSON/SOAP based API.
Solid experience with SQL, Multi-threading, Event Driven Applications
• Data engineering or data science background with strong understanding of data pipelines, architecture, infrastructure, and management.
• Hands on experience of cloud native development using microservices.
• Experience coaching and mentoring junior teammates.
• Customer-centric development approach
Passion for analytical / quantitative problem solving
• Ability to identify and implement improvements to team development processes
• Strong collaboration skills with experience collaborating across many people, roles, and geographies
• Motivation, creativity, self-direction, and desire to thrive on small project teams
Superior academic record with a degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills

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.