Manager, Software Engineering
Key Skills for This Role
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Key Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership
- Lead the design and development of enterprise-scale Java applications and microservices.
- Drive architecture discussions and technical decision-making.
- Ensure engineering best practices, coding standards, security, and performance optimization.
- Review system designs, code quality, and production readiness.
- Champion modernization initiatives and cloud-native development.
- People Management
- Manage and mentor a team of software engineers and technical leads.
- Conduct performance reviews, career development discussions, and coaching sessions.
- Support hiring, onboarding, succession planning, and talent development.
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performance engineering culture.
- Delivery & Execution
- Own end-to-end delivery of projects and releases.
- Drive Agile ceremonies and ensure predictable sprint execution.
- Manage risks, dependencies, and cross-functional coordination.
- Ensure operational excellence, reliability, and supportability of applications.
- Required Technical Skills
- Core Java
- Java 8/11/17+
- Multithreading & Concurrency
- Collections Framework
- JVM Performance Tuning
- Memory Management
- Frameworks & Technologies
- Spring Boot
- Spring MVC
- Spring Security
- Spring Batch
- Hibernate/JPA
- API & Integration
- REST APIs
- Microservices Architecture
- API Gateway
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Kafka or Messaging Platforms
- Database Technologies
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- SQL Optimization
- NoSQL Databases (MongoDB/Cassandra preferred)
- Cloud & DevOps
- AWS/Azure/GCP
- Docker
- Kubernetes/OpenShift
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Jenkins/GitHub Actions
- Infrastructure as Code
- Monitoring & Observability
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
Required Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience.
- 3+ years of people management experience.
- Proven experience leading Java development teams.
- Experience delivering large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong background in Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Experience working with cloud-native architectures and microservices.
- Deep understanding of card payments, transaction lifecycles, and payment network operations.
- Ability to translate business and payment processing requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Experience leading engineering teams responsible for critical payment platforms and customer-facing payment services.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for resolving complex payment processing and settlement issues.
- Familiarity with modernization of legacy payment systems into cloud-native microservices architectures.
- 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.
About Mastercard
Global payment processing and financial technology service provider.
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