Job Description

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 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

Java Manager, Software Engineering

Mastercard is recruiting a Manager of Software Engineering to lead software engineering teams that will contribute to the next evolution of its external and internal customer-facing web platform, Mastercard Connect. Connect is our primary authenticated channel for customer interactions, with thousands of users across nearly 200 countries, representing numerous lines of business, and enabling billions in annual revenue.

This leader will be challenged with advancing the Connect experience for both our customers and our internal users. Our focus will be on building micro-services and enabling internal developer self-service by exposing APIs and automating application onboarding.

Our 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?

Role:

- Hands-on technical leader who brings considerable experience doing application development for backend and web using a broad range of technologies including Java, Spring , Relational and Non Relational databases
- Responsible for hiring and developing engineering and engineering management talent.
- Owner of several major functional areas of our code.
- Manager of senior individual contributors.
- Collaborate across other teams to deliver results.
- Consistently raise standards, insisting on better and continuously improving.

About You:

- You are a hands-on, technical and people leader able to manage directly and through others.
- As a technically astute leader, your recognized subject matter expertise allows you regularly dive deep into everything your teams do.
- 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 teams 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 a team member's career including performance evaluation, coaching, and motivation.
- You are an experienced manager able to evaluate and coach other managers.
- You are experienced in distributed system design and implementation, and have a good understanding of how high-performance, high-reliability, large-scale distributed systems are built and operated.
- 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).
- You have a basic understanding of finance, and you are able to read and understand a business case.

COVID-19 Considerations

In many locations, we've implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by video or phone. In addition, in our NYC offices, as required by law, only individuals who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be permitted inside Mastercard offices unless a reasonable accommodation has been approved in advance.

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.