Manager, Software Engineering

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Our Purpose We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results. Job Title Manager, Software Engineering Overview: At Mastercard, our industry expertise is enhanced by our commitment to being a force for good in the world and to doing well by doing good. Mastercard relies on our global workforce to help us achieve our goal of building a sustainable, inclusive global economy. The Mastercard Way encourages us, connects us with the behaviors that represent the essence of not only what we do but who we are as an organization. Cultivating an environment for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views and experiences drives a global and collaborative culture of inclusion and sense of belonging. The Consumer Centric Proposition – Flexible Payments Program Drive consumer centricity in product, service design, and delivery. This program has engineering teams with capabilities for building end-to-end solutions involving Mobile Apps, Web Front-end applications, and backend API’s using a broad range of technologies as an expansion of our consumer products. MasterCard is recruiting a Software Engineering Manager to lead software engineering teams developing advanced technologies and applications that are revolutionizing payments. MasterCard software engineering teams leverage Agile development principles, advanced development and design practices, and an obsession over security, reliability, and performance to deliver solutions that delight our customers.

• Are you passionate about software engineering?
• Are you fanatical about building large scale, distributed systems the right way?
• Do you want to help software engineers to build better quality software faster?
• Do you firmly believe that code talks, and just about anything else walks?
• Do you want to join a Company that offers a competitive benefits-and rewards program that attracts, develops and retains the most talented employees around the world?
• Do you want to join an inclusive culture where employees, in all their diversity, feel valued, respected and who can bring their authentic selves to work? Learn more at Mastercard’s Corporate Sustainability Report. Role:
• Hands-on technical leader who brings considerable experience doing application development for backend, web and mobile applications, using a broad range of technologies.
• Lead and contribute the design, implementation, documentation, testing, and delivery for engineering efforts across a program.
• Assess functional requirements and NFRs from the technical feasibility perspective o Work with business analysis & software engineering team to translate requirements to workable architecture, design & implementations o Supervise & review design & implementation to comply with the internal guidelines, industry best practices and quality attributes
• Generate and manage reference architectures to preserve & reuse the knowledge, produce artifacts for the technology architecture & design knowledgebase
• Actively engage in knowledge sharing with the project team, serving as a thought leader, providing guidance to the team on standards, tools and technologies
• Facilitate the architecture & design process, participate in making decisions on technology and software architecture
• Responsible for hiring and developing engineering talent.
• Owner of one or more major functional areas of our code.
• Collaborate across other teams to deliver results. About You:
• Degree in Computer Science or related information technology management field.
• You are a hands-on, technical and people leader. You regularly dive deep into everything your team does.
• Your leadership style is based on building trust with your team, your peers, and your management.
• You are high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and adaptive and can work in a dynamic environment.
• You possess strong communication skills - both verbal and written – and are able to get your point across efficiently to a wide range of audiences.
• You are obsessed with results, and effectively communicate objectives and how success will be measured to your team and other stakeholders.
• You have strong decision-making skills, and you have a bias for action rather than drawn-out analysis because you understand that most decisions are not irreversible.
• You regularly lead retrospection, and continually improve as a result.
• You have strong collaborative and organizational skills and you value transparency over avoiding scrutiny.
• You understand how to guide an engineer’s career including performance evaluation, coaching, and motivation.
• You are experienced in distributed system design and implementation, and understand how to build high-performance, high-reliability operation of large-scale distributed systems. You master consensus mechanisms, partitioning and sharding, and reliability engineering.
• You have expert level knowledge of software development processes, and you practice Agile at an advanced level.
• You have experience and knowledge of Test Driven and Domain Driven Development (TDD / DDD).
• You are an experienced user of one or more Application Lifecycle Management tools (e.g., Rally, Jira).
• As a leader, you own your code repositories. You are a Git expert, and have experience with one or more SCM hosting tools such as GitHub or BitBucket. Your repositories look like trees, not bushes.
• You are experienced with CI/CD. Due to COVID-19, most of our employees are working from home. We’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by phone or video and are onboarding new hires remotely. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together. Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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.
  

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