Software Engineering Manager (.NET) Job Listing at Mastercard in Arlington, VA (Job ID R-246538)

Description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Software Engineering Manager (.NET) Overview:

Are you passionate about creating high-impact, reusable solutions that empower developers? As our new Software Engineering Manager, you'll design and implement robust, secure, and scalable shared services that enhance the developer experience across our entire engineering organization. From building libraries and APIs to optimizing tooling, your work will enable teams to ship high-quality code faster and more efficiently. You'll tackle critical domains like authentication, caching, logging, error handling, testing frameworks, and more, ensuring our applications are built on a rock-solid foundation. If you love solving complex engineering challenges and shaping the way teams build software, we'd love to have you on board!

This role is central to MasterCard's Business & Market Insights group, a key differentiator that delivers data-driven technologies and software services — including business experimentation, loyalty and marketing automation, and advanced data analytics — to help customers innovate and grow.

The Role:

We are looking for a hands-on manager who will develop talent but remain focused on building solutions themselves.

Responsibilities include the following, but not limited to:

Managing a scrum team of Software Engineers to develop quality software solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Lead by example in planning, designing, and developing software engineering solutions
Successfully lead the definition, development, and delivery of major cross-department initiatives with broad scope and long-term business implications.
Provide technical leadership and direction to software development teams in the development of services and capabilities across the platform.
Work closely with product and architecture teams on product definition, technical design, and overall execution for the team.
Formally supervise, coach, and develop the team.
Engineers work in small, flexible teams. Every team member contributes to designing, building, and testing features.

About You:

Hands-on technical leader with deep expertise in application development, team management
Expert in software development processes.
Strong coding skills in .NET (or similar), REST APIs, and SQL Server—this role is actively involved in coding.
Designs solutions with a focus on Performance, Security, Scalability, and Resiliency.
Technical leader who actively dives deep into team efforts.
Self-motivated with a high degree of initiative and a drive for learning.
Excellent communicator with strong collaboration and organizational skills.
Results-driven, clearly defining objectives and success metrics.
Strong decision-maker who leads in retrospection and fosters continuous improvement.
Guides engineers' careers through coaching, evaluation, and professional development
Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, with the ability to drive iterative delivery and cross-team collaboration.
Strong communicator with the ability to explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, and to influence stakeholders across product, engineering, and acquisition teams.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

#LI-DJ2 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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

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

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