Manager, Software Engineering

Manager, Software Engineering

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: Experienced people leader with prior/recent hands-on coding experience. Proficient in JavaScript, Angular, Java/J2EE, Spring boot, Oracle, PostgreSQL and Cloud technologies (AWS/ Azure). Successfully designed and developed externally facing web applications utilizing modern single page application frameworks. Possess high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive, and adaptive and can work in a dynamic environment. Proven success leading and building teams, performing performance reviews, and coaching employees. Possess an understanding of multi-tier web development, including knowledge of server-side technologies and databases. Having proficiency in Quality engineering and experience working with Quality leads to define processes and technologies. Passion for improving code quality using approaches such as unit and end to end testing. Deep knowledge of Continuous Integration and Delivery and toolsets that provide this ability. Understanding of agile principles and methodologies and experience implementing and adapting them to fit the team's needs. Experience using Git based source control systems. Previous experience in ADA and WCAG compliance.

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.

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