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Company: Mastercard
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Career Level: Mid-Senior Level
Industries: Banking, Insurance, Financial Services

Description

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.

Title and Summary

Manager, Software Engineering Overview

We are the global technology company behind the world's fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.

Our team within Mastercard – Services:

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.

Targeting Analytics Program:

Within the Services Technology Team, the Targeting Analytics program is a relatively new program that is comprised of a rich set of products that provide accurate perspectives on Credit Risk, Portfolio Optimization, and Ad Insights. Currently, we are enhancing our customer experience with new user interfaces, moving to API-based data publishing to allow for seamless integration in other Mastercard products and externally, utilizing new data sets and algorithms to further analytic capabilities, and generating scalable big data processes.
We are looking for an innovative software engineering manager who will lead the team responsible for the design and build of a full stack web application and data pipelines, and thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment. This individual will partner closely with other areas of the business to build and enhance solutions that drive value for our customers.
Engineers work in small, flexible teams. Every team member contributes to designing, building, and testing features. The range of work you will encounter varies from building intuitive, responsive UIs to designing backend data models, architecting data flows, and beyond. There are no rigid organizational structures, and each team uses processes that work best for its members and projects.

Manager, Software Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Manage, coach, and develop a cross-functional engineering team.
• Provide strategic technical and product direction for applications, architectures, and software development processes.
• Design and develop new, complex technical products from inception to release.
• Partner with product development on the product roadmap, scoping features, and planning releases.
• Champion technical innovation and high quality within the team.
• Collaborate across teams and business units to solve complex problems.
• Lead goal setting and accountability practices within the engineering team.
• Continuously experiment and innovate to develop a high performing engineering team.
• Be a strong individual contributor to the implementation efforts of product solutions .
• Lead with an agile mindset and pivot fast and often as new information
surfaces.
• Keep senior stakeholders informed of progress and incorporate input into technical decisions.
• Identify short term and long-term engineering needs to scale platform solutions to meet customer demand.

Ideal Candidate Qualifications:

• Academic degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• More than 5 years of full stack engineering experience in an agile production environment.
• Experience leading engineering teams and/or coaching and mentoring junior teammates, as well as leading the design and implementation of large, complex features in full-stack applications.
• Proficiency with Java, and Spring Boot.
• Proficiency with React or other Frontend frameworks is a big plus
• Experience with SQL Server or other relational database technologies.
• Experience in adopting a customer-centric development approach.
• Excellent Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Fluent in English (mandatory).

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.




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