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Manager, Software Engineering
Mastercard · Pune, India
experiencedPune, IndiaPosted 17 Jun 2026
Mastercard is hiring a Manager, Software Engineering in Pune.
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 Manager, Software Engineering
Responsibilities
- Formally supervise and coach teams of engineers to build, enhance, and support multiple applications/services in the delivery of internal or market-facing Products, Platforms, or Product bundles
- Work with business/product owners to develop and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles
- Ensure objectives and development plans are established at the start of the year and reviewed continuously throughout the year
- Recruit and hire the right talent, always bringing in someone better than at least half the individuals in the role
- Continuously engage and improve teams’ performance by conducting recurring 1-1 meetings, knowing your people, managing career development, and understanding who is at risk
- Provide and facilitate timely feedback, coaching in the moment, and mentoring for staff at all levels
- Emulate and drive Mastercard Way behaviors through their behavior, recognitions, coaching, and employee engagement
- Manage and optimize budgets, forecasting, and cost allocation while delivering on business needs in the area of ownership
- Provide strategic thinking and leadership related to a wide range of applications and systems, or software-development methodologies
- Benchmark and drive engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance in the areas of ownership
- Proactively share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse of patterns/libraries/practices and enhance productivity
Experiences
- IT experience with successful track record in managing small scale development organization (2+ teams) with demonstrated thought-leadership, cross-functional influence, and partnership
- Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages, secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management.
- Has skills in building applications using open frameworks to achieve reuse and reduce development times (e.g., Spring Boot, Steeltoe, Angular, DXP, others)
- Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to deliver interoperable and performant code
About Mastercard
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