Manager, Software Engineering-R-251598

Job description
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’s Paprika team, part of the Portfolio Intelligence Program, is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to join our fast-growing Services organization. In this leadership role, you will guide a team of skilled engineers as we rebuild a core fintech product that harnesses cutting-edge analytics, modern software architecture, and the latest web technologies. This next-generation platform enables clients to extract actionable insights from massive datasets—empowering them to make high-impact, data-driven business decisions.

As part of the Portfolio Intelligence team, you will apply your leadership and full-stack development expertise to build, deploy and scale real-time, interactive applications used by thousands of clients worldwide. These applications empower users to benchmark portfolio performance, track KPIs, and generate insightful dashboards and reports using Mastercard’s rich data assets.

You will have the opportunity to build a high-performance analytics platform that advances how businesses all over the world unleash the most value from Mastercard data. Our next-generation platform blends industry-leading analytics, advanced software architecture, and the latest web technologies. You will play a vital role within a rapidly growing organization while working closely with experienced and driven engineers to solve challenging problems.

Engineers work in small, flexible teams. Every team member contributes to feature design, building, and testing. The range of work you encounter varies from front-end web development to writing server-side calculation code to database work. There are no rigid organizational structures at Mastercard; each team uses processes that work the best for that team's members and projects.

This is a hybrid role based in Arlington, VA, requiring three days per week onsite.

Role
• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of full-stack software engineers.
• Design and deliver scalable, modular, service-oriented software systems.
• Guide architecture decisions and ensure adherence to development best practices.
• Own and evolve key components of the analytics platform with a focus on performance, quality, and maintainability.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, including code reviews and design discussions.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, including code reviews and design discussions.
• Drive the roadmap for a suite of web applications that deliver powerful business insights
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Software Delivery, Security, Privacy, and Product Management.

About You
• Previous experience as Software Engineer, Developer or Architect with experience as Manager mentoring software engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, React, PostgreSQL; experience with Snowflake is a plus.
• Deep knowledge of full-stack development, microservices, and modern web technologies.
• Skilled in designing scalable APIs, high-performance systems, and data-centric applications.
• Agile methodologies experience.

Demonstrated skills in managing projects, people, and tasks across multiple geographies and business units.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Finance, or Business. Equivalent practical experience will also be considered.

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 based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. 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 new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 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, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

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

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