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

As a Manager, Software Engineering in the Services organization, you will have the opportunity to lead the development of analytics applications that sit atop vast datasets gathered by retail stores, restaurants, banks, and other consumer-focused companies. Mastercard's next-generation platform blends industry-leading analytics, advanced software architecture, and the latest web technologies to face these problems. Our software is required to effectively decipher analytically complex insights from these problems, on which businesses base multi-million-dollar business decisions.

As a member of the Business Experimentation & Optimization team, you will apply your full-stack development skills to building industry-leading business experimentation software that brings sophisticated analytic techniques to business users around the world. The Services organization is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. We combine traditional management consulting with our rich data assets and in-house technology to provide our clients with powerful insights and tools to drive fact-based decision-making. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, our services include consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, business experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management. While specializing in the payments industry,



Mastercard Services also works closely with major retailers, airlines, and other enterprises, leveraging data and insights garnered from within and beyond its network.

We are looking for passionate, talented technologists who share our vision of empowering our customers to make better, fact-based decisions to join us and help shape our team's growth.

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is the global technology company behind the world’s fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, and a technology innovation lab. We ensure every employee has the chance to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. As a part of Business Experimentation & Optimization, you will build revolutionary products that advance how businesses all over the world seize the most value from their data. As a Manager, Software Engineer within the Business Experimentation & Optimization team, you will:

Formally supervise, coach, and develop a high-performing development team

Provide strategic leadership related to specific applications and systems, or software-development methodologies

Lead large-scale projects from inception to release

Lead design of major, complex parts of the platform with high-quality development

Define state-of-the-art service-oriented software architectures

Spend 50% of your time on active software development tasks

Critically review the code and guide the team with a focus on improving the code quality





Play a key role in shaping the direction of engineering processes through working on a small team empowered to organize and run the team as they see fit

Experience managing, coaching, and guiding high-performing software development teams

Experience with full-stack, data, and cloud technologies such as Databricks, AWS (Data Services + Agentic/ML Services including EMR, Agent Core, Bedrock, etc), .NET/C#, Java, Spring Boot, React, Python, Spark, or similar.

Experience solving and implementing scalable solutions to solve complex problems

Experience with AI tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, etc., Proficiency with advanced object-oriented programming, design principles, refactoring, microservice development, and databases

Strong understanding of web technologies and server-side technologies for developing microservices

Motivation, creativity, self-direction, and desire to thrive on small project teams

Prior experience leading a team or mentoring other engineers, both technically and professionally preferred

Superior academic record with a degree in Computer Science or related technical field

Strong written and verbal English communication skills

Mastercard is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. Applicants will be considered and treated without regard to gender, gender identity, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disabled status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law

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;

Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

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

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