Lead and manage a team of engineers, oversee planning and implementation of API technical solutions, and foster collaboration while maintaining engineering standards.
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
Overview
Mastercard Developers (https://developer.mastercard.com) is the primary API platform for Mastercard partners to access a diverse range of payment, data, loyalty, and security APIs. The team is responsible for delivering an experience that ensures developers can quickly find the right API, assess its technical capabilities and integrate it into new and innovative solutions. Mastercard Developers is looking for a technical engineering manager to lead and grow our engineering team while remaining hands-on with code and architecture.
- Would you enjoy leading and growing a team of engineers in an evolving Enterprise environment?
- Do you have a strong background in developing and delivering high volume web services?
- Are you passionate about building high-performing teams that deliver exceptional, scalable software?
- Are you excited about the technical challenges of API platform design and architecture?
- Do you want to be part of one of the most exciting global initiatives in Mastercard right now?
Role
- Lead and manage a team of 4-8 engineers while remaining technically hands-on
- Drive planning, design and implementation of technical solutions for global customers (internal and external)
- Recruit, mentor, and develop engineering talent; conduct performance reviews and career development
- Continually ideate, scope, develop, deliver, test and iterate features for the constantly evolving and growing Mastercard Developers
- Ensure appropriate levels of automation are adopted (build, deploy, configure, validate, monitor)
- Liaise with other global technology, data, operations teams to execute
- Act as subject matter expert for Mastercard Developers API Platform and services to support customer integrations
- Foster team collaboration, remove blockers, and maintain high engineering standards
All About You
- 8+ years of backend development experience with 3+ years of technical team leadership
- Very strong Java and object-oriented design and development skills with active coding capability
- Knowledge of Kotlin is a plus as it is one of our primary language for backend services
- Strong fundamentals of Spring Boot, microservices and SQL based database (Oracle and PostgreSQL)
- Proven track record in API based products and team management
- You care about both technical architecture/design AND developing people - ensuring solutions are flexibly designed while growing engineering talent
- Experienced working in an Agile environment with a global team that makes frequent production releases
- Experience managing engineers in a hands-on capacity, balancing individual contribution with team leadership
- Background in Dev/Ops a distinct advantage
- Background in automation a distinct advantage
- Experience in designing and delivering APIs and security models an advantage
- You strive to create highly intuitive and responsive products while building high-performing teams
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
Overview
Mastercard Developers (https://developer.mastercard.com) is the primary API platform for Mastercard partners to access a diverse range of payment, data, loyalty, and security APIs. The team is responsible for delivering an experience that ensures developers can quickly find the right API, assess its technical capabilities and integrate it into new and innovative solutions. Mastercard Developers is looking for a technical engineering manager to lead and grow our engineering team while remaining hands-on with code and architecture.
- Would you enjoy leading and growing a team of engineers in an evolving Enterprise environment?
- Do you have a strong background in developing and delivering high volume web services?
- Are you passionate about building high-performing teams that deliver exceptional, scalable software?
- Are you excited about the technical challenges of API platform design and architecture?
- Do you want to be part of one of the most exciting global initiatives in Mastercard right now?
Role
- Lead and manage a team of 4-8 engineers while remaining technically hands-on
- Drive planning, design and implementation of technical solutions for global customers (internal and external)
- Recruit, mentor, and develop engineering talent; conduct performance reviews and career development
- Continually ideate, scope, develop, deliver, test and iterate features for the constantly evolving and growing Mastercard Developers
- Ensure appropriate levels of automation are adopted (build, deploy, configure, validate, monitor)
- Liaise with other global technology, data, operations teams to execute
- Act as subject matter expert for Mastercard Developers API Platform and services to support customer integrations
- Foster team collaboration, remove blockers, and maintain high engineering standards
All About You
- 8+ years of backend development experience with 3+ years of technical team leadership
- Very strong Java and object-oriented design and development skills with active coding capability
- Knowledge of Kotlin is a plus as it is one of our primary language for backend services
- Strong fundamentals of Spring Boot, microservices and SQL based database (Oracle and PostgreSQL)
- Proven track record in API based products and team management
- You care about both technical architecture/design AND developing people - ensuring solutions are flexibly designed while growing engineering talent
- Experienced working in an Agile environment with a global team that makes frequent production releases
- Experience managing engineers in a hands-on capacity, balancing individual contribution with team leadership
- Background in Dev/Ops a distinct advantage
- Background in automation a distinct advantage
- Experience in designing and delivering APIs and security models an advantage
- You strive to create highly intuitive and responsive products while building high-performing teams
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.
Top Skills
Api Design
Automation
Dev/Ops
Java
Kotlin
Oracle
Postgres
Spring Boot
SQL
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