Leads a software engineering team while balancing technical, managerial, and recruiting responsibilities. Oversees planning, production support, enhancements, development, code reviews, technical backlogs, technical debt, refactoring, architecture collaboration, operations readiness, and 24/7 product support. Requires hands-on expertise in Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, RESTful services, event-driven architecture, Angular, scalable web services, vulnerability remediation, and AI-driven development practices.
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
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a
sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
If you're tired of the status quo and want to join a passionate team with limitless potential, keep reading
because we'd love to meet you. What did that all mean? We deliver tokenized mobile transactions safe and
fast! Do you like to continuously show progress and learn about the world? Our program follows an
iterative approach to development with teams located globally.
Role
What you will do:
Engineering Managers will split their time between Technical (70%), Managerial (20%) and Recruiting (10%) activities.
What you will do: • Leadership • Leading team functions like
- PI Planning
- Production support
- Enhancements
- Fresh development • Assisting teams on their day-to-day work by
- Highlighting issues, they may come across for the work they are taking
- Being able to define the infra and other asks for upcoming features and coordinating with TPM to raise exchanges
- Working closely with PMT to identify upcoming work • Tech
- Being able to review code, groom the team technically
- Identify and maintain tech debt and plan for their completion
- Own technical backlogs • Atmosphere
- Create and sustain an atmosphere where teams are having fun at work
- Being approachable and open to feedback from peers and juniors alike • Tech inputs • Coordinating with operations team to ensure apps developed are good from operability perspective • Working with architects (tech and solution), challenging their designs • Owning continuous refactor of code and its plan • Support • Arrange and provide for 24X7 support for the products and solutions developed by the team • Agility • Ability to navigate uncertainties and changes in requirements while keeping the teams morale high • Proficient in facilitating AI coding tool for expedite development tasks.
All About You• You are an excellent communicator - able to understand and explain complex ideas clearly, orally or in writing. • You are a self-starter capable of identifying problems or areas of opportunity and implementing solutions. • You must be able to motivate a team, inspiring folks to do their best work. • You must have solid understanding and hands-on experience in Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, RESTful web services, Event Driven Architecture and Angular are a MUST • You must also have some experience in working with and/or implementing a AI driven development lifecycle.• Solid understanding and experience integrating as well as building scalable and performing web services • Experience identifying and remediating vulnerabilities • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Engage and manage a team of software engineers, including task planning and code reviews.
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:
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
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a
sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
If you're tired of the status quo and want to join a passionate team with limitless potential, keep reading
because we'd love to meet you. What did that all mean? We deliver tokenized mobile transactions safe and
fast! Do you like to continuously show progress and learn about the world? Our program follows an
iterative approach to development with teams located globally.
Role
What you will do:
Engineering Managers will split their time between Technical (70%), Managerial (20%) and Recruiting (10%) activities.
What you will do: • Leadership • Leading team functions like
- PI Planning
- Production support
- Enhancements
- Fresh development • Assisting teams on their day-to-day work by
- Highlighting issues, they may come across for the work they are taking
- Being able to define the infra and other asks for upcoming features and coordinating with TPM to raise exchanges
- Working closely with PMT to identify upcoming work • Tech
- Being able to review code, groom the team technically
- Identify and maintain tech debt and plan for their completion
- Own technical backlogs • Atmosphere
- Create and sustain an atmosphere where teams are having fun at work
- Being approachable and open to feedback from peers and juniors alike • Tech inputs • Coordinating with operations team to ensure apps developed are good from operability perspective • Working with architects (tech and solution), challenging their designs • Owning continuous refactor of code and its plan • Support • Arrange and provide for 24X7 support for the products and solutions developed by the team • Agility • Ability to navigate uncertainties and changes in requirements while keeping the teams morale high • Proficient in facilitating AI coding tool for expedite development tasks.
All About You• You are an excellent communicator - able to understand and explain complex ideas clearly, orally or in writing. • You are a self-starter capable of identifying problems or areas of opportunity and implementing solutions. • You must be able to motivate a team, inspiring folks to do their best work. • You must have solid understanding and hands-on experience in Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, RESTful web services, Event Driven Architecture and Angular are a MUST • You must also have some experience in working with and/or implementing a AI driven development lifecycle.• Solid understanding and experience integrating as well as building scalable and performing web services • Experience identifying and remediating vulnerabilities • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Engage and manage a team of software engineers, including task planning and code reviews.
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.
Mastercard Mumbai, Maharashtra, IND Office
Bandra Kurla Complex Road, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 400051
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