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: Mastercard is a technology company in the Global Payments Industry. We operate the world’s fastest payments processing network, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. Mastercard products and solutions make everyday commerce activities – such as shopping, travelling, running a business and managing finances – easier, more secure and more efficient for everyone. MasterCard is seeking talented individuals to join our Network Solutions team in Pune, India. MasterCard is researching and developing the next generation of products and services to enable consumers to securely, efficiently, and intelligently conduct transactions regardless of channel. Join our team and help shape the future!

Role: Engineering Managers will split their time between Technical (70%), Managerial (20%) and Recruiting (10%) activities. What you will do:

• Leadership

  • Leading two teams across 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 uncertianities and changes in requirements while keeping the teams morale high

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 are a MUST

• 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.