Director, Software Development Engineering

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Position Overview:

We are recruiting a Director of Software Engineering to lead software engineering teams developing advanced technologies and applications that are revolutionizing payments. MasterCard software engineering teams leverage Agile development principles, advanced development and design practices, and an obsession over security, reliability, and performance to deliver solutions that delight our customers.

Are you passionate about software engineering?
Are you fanatical about building large scale, distributed systems the right way?
Do you want to help software engineers to build better quality software faster?
Do you firmly believe that code talks, and just about anything else walks?

Role:

Hands-on technical leader who brings considerable experience doing application development for backend, web and mobile applications, using a broad range of technologies including Hadoop, Rest APIs, PL/SQL, Spring Batch, and Spring Cloud Data Flow
Responsible for hiring and developing engineering and engineering management talent.
Owner of several major functional areas of our code.
Manager of managers and senior individual contributors.
Collaborate across other teams to deliver results.
Consistently raise standards, insisting on better and continuously improving.

About You:

You are a hands-on, technical and people leader able to manage directly and through others.
As a technically astute leader, your recognized subject matter expertise allows you regularly dive deep into everything your teams do.
Your leadership style is based on building trust with your team, your peers, and your management.
You are high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and adaptive and can work in a dynamic environment.
You possess strong communication skills - both verbal and written – and are able to get your point across efficiently to a wide range of audiences.
You are obsessed with results, and effectively communicate objectives and how success will be measured to your teams and other stakeholders.
You have strong decision-making skills, and you have a bias for action rather than drawn-out analysis because you understand that most decisions are not irreversible.
You regularly lead retrospection, and continually improve as a result.
You have strong collaborative and organizational skills and you value transparency over avoiding scrutiny.
You understand how to guide a team member’s career including performance evaluation, coaching, and motivation.
You are an experienced manager able to evaluate and coach other managers.
You are experienced in distributed system design and implementation, and have a good understanding of how high-performance, high-reliability, large-scale distributed systems are built and operated.
You have expert level knowledge of software development processes, and you practice Agile at an advanced level.
You have experience and knowledge of Test Driven and Domain Driven Development (TDD / DDD).
You are an experienced user of one or more Application Lifecycle Management tools (e.g., Rally, Jira).
You have a basic understanding of finance, and you are able to read and understand a business case.Due to COVID-19, most of our employees are working from home. We’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by phone or video and are onboarding new hires remotely. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together.

Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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.

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