Our Purpose We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results. Job Title Director, Software Engineering MasterCard is recruiting a Director of Software Engineering to lead software engineering teams developing products and platforms that are revolutionizing digital 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 quality and developer experience? - Are you fanatical about building large scale and 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 in driving software quality practices leveraging CI/CD quality gates and frameworks that enable best in class developer experience - Collaborate with product and engineering teams to provide quality check/assessments to improve developer experience and quality of a complex global product - Identify and recruit top notch talent to build a world class software engineering team - Own the roadmap and direct multiple engineering teams - Collaborate with other teams to deliver results. - Consistently raise standards, insisting on incremental and continuous improvements. About You: - You are a hands-on, technical and people leader able to manage directly and through others. - You have extensive experience in delivering CI/CD tools and frameworks to enable developer experience for large teams and quality gates for global products. - 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 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 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 team members. - You are experienced with the build, validate, and deployment of large scale distributed system with a deep understanding of the role of automation to deliver best in class developer experience for global teams. - You have expert level knowledge of software development processes, and you practice Agile at an advanced level. - You are an experienced user of one or more Application Lifecycle Management tools (e.g., Rally, Jira). COVID-19 Considerations We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together. In many locations, which may change over time, we’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by video or phone. In addition, in some locations, only individuals who have been fully vaccinated will be permitted inside Mastercard offices until further notice. In the US, Mastercard is a government contractor, which may legally require most Mastercard employees to be vaccinated unless a verified approved medical or religious exemption is granted. Further, we are currently making every effort towards having employees return to work in the office 2 days per week, if that makes sense for their team. Everyone must be vaccinated to enter Mastercard offices at this time. Therefore, we expect all candidates to be vaccinated or to be approved for a medical or religious accommodation prior to commencing work at Mastercard. In the US, 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. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application 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.