Manager, Software Engineering (Java / Spring Boot / Microservices)

Mastercard s Network & Digital Payments group creates valued experiences for consumers, and enables merchants and issuers to reach consumers in ways not possible in the pre-digital world. The global product engineering team is responsible for development of a suite of foundational payment solutions. This an opportunity to be a part of a highly motivated team focused on bringing security, convenience and control to digital payments.
Have you ever engineered a product to market on a global scale?
Are you motivated to be a part of driving a world beyond cash?
Are you agile with a desire to exhibit your skills at the cutting edge with a high standard for excellence?

As a Manager, Software Engineering, you will:

- Supervise and coach teams of engineers to build, enhance, and support multiple applications/services for the digital payments solutions
- Work with product owners to design, develop and launch of features and services for new and existing products
- Recruit and hire the brightest talent, always bringing in someone better than at least half the individuals in the role
- Ensure objectives and development plans are established in working with the global leadership team at the start of the year and reviewed continuously throughout the year
- Continuously engage and improve teams performance by conducting recurring 1-1 meetings, knowing your people, managing career development, and understanding who is at risk
- Provide and facilitate timely feedback, coaching in the moment, and mentoring for staff at all levels
- Emulate and drive Mastercard Way behaviours through their behaviour, recognitions, coaching, and employee engagement
- Provide strategic thinking and collaborate with the global leadership team for a wide range of software design and development methodologies for cloud deployments
- Benchmark and drive engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance in the areas of ownership
- Form strong relationships with the global leadership in raising the engineering bar in developing digital payment solutions

You should apply if:
- you have with successful track record in managing development teams with demonstrated thought-leadership, cross-functional influence, and partnerships
- you have worked extensively on server-side, backend applications and technologies;
- you re comfortable leading engineers that are exploring and defining new ways of working;
- you have skills to drive technical review of design and code across services to look for anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring
- you understand and elaborate technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritisation discussions with stakeholders to improve the run experience
- you understand system architecture to plan for platform and infrastructure capacity (eg, database, compute, network, storage) and drives the dependency prioritisation to reduce the delivery lead time
- you enjoy sharing your knowledge and experience with your colleagues across locations;
- you have experience of RESTful API and stateless service design patterns and deployment;
- you have progressively grown in career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages, secure coding standards, and deployment environments.
- you have deployed complex applications into cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud using containerisation technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes;
- you can build robust testing strategies to minimize defects by regression, performance, deployment verification and release testing processes; and,
- you re excited to build applications that have global impact and are used daily by 100s of millions of people.

It would also be great if:
- you ve used the Spring Framework components in developing backend services- it s what we use to create our cloud-ready applications;
- you ve used Pivotal Cloud Foundry to deploy cloud-ready applications;
- you can use Domain Driven Design to solve business problems;
- you ve built Event Driven applications;
- you ve built 12-factor applications;
- you have Full-stack experience and can solve all aspects of the technology problem to deliver a solution to a production environment;
- you have first-hand knowledge of a wide range of technologies - databases, messaging, caches, API gateways, networking, pipelines, cryptography, HSMs - and preferably the products we use such as Jenkins, Splunk, Oracle, Apache Kafka, Redis and NATS.

Our teams and values:
- We work within small collaborative teams consisting of software engineers and product managers;
- Our customer s success is at the core of what we do;
- We are diverse and inclusive teams from many backgrounds and with many experiences;
- We believe in doing well by doing good through inclusive growth and making ethical and environmentally responsible decisions.