Director of Software Engineering, Mastercard
Global payments technology company
Open for applications
Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in building highly resilient & scalable distributed systems. Has deep exposure to various database, messaging & caching technologies
- Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages (e.g., Java, .NET, JavaScript, SQL), secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management
- Experience in Java/J2EE technologies with Spring boot and Spring batch framework, REST APIs, JSON, NoSQL/SQL data bases, Hibernate, Messaging, front end technologies CSS, HTML, Angular.js, Node.js, React.js or similar framework, Web & Application Server
- Hands on experience of various coding methods and computer languages, Data modelling and database design experience, MicroServices Architecture
- In depth knowledge of Cloud provider (PCF, AWS, Azure), Container and Container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). Proficient working in cloud with AWS preferred
- Sound knowledge of cryptography functions incl PKI infrastructure, hashing, encryption, consensus algorithms, virtual machines
- Has an understanding and experience of DevOps best practices to guide developers and abstract application development from underlying hosting platforms and infrastructure. Infrastructure as code and cloud first software development knowledge experience preferred
- Experience in Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization. Tools such as Jenkins, Gradle, Maven, Source Control Management and working with code in a multi-developer that’s integrated with secure code coverage & static code coverage tools (SonarCube Prisma etc)
- Expertise in Junit or other automated unit testing frameworks e.g. Karate
- Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization
- Has skills to promote and coach teams on take on full stack development and facilitate end-to-end service ownership
- Has skills to engage engineers across Technology organization to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and services
- Has experience in leading and coaching teams to perform software planning and estimation for large scale complex programs
- Has skills to drive trade-off discussions to set right development capacity based on value drivers (e.g., regulatory, security, new business, market parity, technical debt)
- Has experience in design and execution of automation across multiple business areas and provides guidance on best methods and tools
- Performance engineering experience to ensure applications are built to scale, run, and perform for varying demands
- Has skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders
- Loves creating innovative solutions to problems in a collaborative fun environment
- Advanced knowledge and understanding of modern software engineering concepts and methodologies
- Passionate about software development and comfortable in a fluid environment
- Passionate about code quality and coding best practices
- Show initiative and demonstrate a willingness to take on challenging opportunities
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and strong collaboration skills
- Interested in mentoring and helping grow the skills of the next generation of software developers
What the job involves
- Mastercard is looking for a talented Software Engineer Director to join the Mastercard Applied Artificial Intelligence team in Dublin (Ireland). This role will be focused in enabling AI and Automation solutions within Mastercard Products and Processes
- In this role you will be part of a highly agile team building exciting and innovative solutions delivered at scale to global markets
- Technology leader who is hands-on & and can lead a team of engineers. Expected to spend a significant % of time coding/on code related activities and remainder on coaching engineers on the team. This person is recognized as a team’s authority and technical expert who drives innovation and organizational growth through their contributions
- Collaborate with product teams to understand the requirements, identify solution, propose ideas and provide technical thought leadership
- Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies
- Document the overall systems/application architecture, help create high-level and low-level designs and shepherd through security and architecture governance reviews
- Act as the lead in bringing multiple engineers and/or teams together to achieve the overall objective of the proposed solution
- Drive resolution on complex technical issues
- Participate and contribute to team’s agile process and decisions. Understand and contribute to Prioritization. Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners
- Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar
- Conduct mid and end of year performance reviews for team
- Build relationships with technical peers across organization with a focus on our Enterprise Architecture (EA) collaboration; socializing new technologies with EA and bringing EA technology and updates back to the group
- Contribute and lead SE Guild initiatives by engaging and mentoring Engineers at all levels to improve the craftmanship of Software Engineering
- Drive adherence to Mastercard’s corporate coding standards
Application process
- End Date: May 31, 2025
Our take
Mastercard is in the global payments business, and operates the world's fastest payments processing network. Its products and solutions have become central to everyday commerce across the world, in activities ranging from shopping and travelling to running businesses.
As the economy has become more and more digitised, Mastercard has been a leading player in helping businesses and individuals across the globe embrace card payments and digital banking. One of the world's largest companies, its revenue has seen consistent gain in the last 20 years.
The challenge for modern payments companies is that payments are always changing, as seen in the astronomical rise of contactless payments over the last decade. Mastercard's acquisition of blockchain systems, and an overall focus on leveraging its technology towards a digital economy, has placed the company in good stead to keep up to date with current trends, like cryptocurrency, in the digitised payments world.
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Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
Leadership
Michael Miebach
(CEO, not founder)Has served in a variety of roles at the company, including President and CPO. Currently Board Member at IBM, Accion, the World Resources Institute, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, and the Metropolitan Opera. They are also a Trustee of USCIB.
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