Manager, Software Engineering

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

The Commercial Engineering Toolkit (Comet) is a powerful UI infrastructure application that supports Mastercard's digital transformation acceleration by hosting a library of scalable, reusable components, design patterns, and page templates. Comet empowers our Product & Engineering teams across commercial solutions to speed development and innovation through a foundational set of tools, ensuring Mastercard and partner-hosted products deliver reliable, accessible, and visually consistent UI experiences.

Our mission is to lead the client-facing experience at Mastercard, bridging the gap between design and engineering to provide a seamless, opinionated interface for our users. We are seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a cross-functional team within the Commercial Solutions organization, driving innovation and excellence in UI design for the future of commercial payments.

Role :

• Plan, design and develop technical solutions and to meet business requirements guided by MasterCard standards, engineering principles, processes, and best practices
• Provide strong people leadership and technical guidance to team – lead with a technical vision prioritizing business value.
• Lead by example with hands-on approach that demonstrates engineering excellence
• Work closely with directors, product managers, technical leads and architects to align on objectives and architecture guidelines.
• Take ownership of complex problems and production incidents with dependencies across services and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive timely resolution.
• Participate and drive design, hands on coding and code reviews.
• Hire, lead, mentor, and coach a team of software engineers.
• Promote an Agile approach to software development. Insist on a culture of continuous integration and delivery, automation and minimizing blast radius.
• Collaborate with teams across the organization to mitigate risk and resolve dependencies.

All About You :

Location Requirements : This is a hybrid position based in Arlington, Virginia.

This role is not eligible for Mastercard's work authorization sponsorship. As such, candidates must be eligible to work in the United States, now as well as in the future, without employer sponsorship.

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include : insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more.

Pay Ranges

Arlington, Virginia : $159,000 - $254,000 USD