Vice President, Software Engineering

Mastercard is hiring a Vice President, 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 Vice President, Software Engineering

Responsibilities

Technology & Architecture Leadership

• Develop technical vision and execution for the Send engineering organization, aligned to product and platform roadmap.
• Lead architecture and design decisions for large-scale Java distributed systems, including event-driven architectures, messaging/streaming platforms, APIs, and data stores.
• Drive platform modernization and technology standardization initiatives
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for code quality, security, scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Act as a senior technical authority, is able to dive deep into complex system behaviors, failure modes, and trade-offs when required.

Operational Excellence & Reliability

• Champion an SRE-informed operating model with strong focus on availability, latency, throughput, error budgets, and recovery objectives.
• Ensure robust incident, problem, and change management practices with measurable improvements in stability and customer impact reduction.
• Drive proactive risk identification through FMEA, resiliency testing, chaos engineering, and dependency readiness reviews.
• Partner with infrastructure, network, and security teams to ensure end-to-end observability, fault isolation, and predictable performance.
• Accountable for meeting and exceeding operational SLAs/SLOs.

Product & Customer Partnership

• Work in lockstep with Product Management to translate business strategy into clear, executable engineering roadmaps.
• Balance speed of delivery with platform availability, resiliency, regulatory obligations, and long-term maintainability.
• Engage directly with strategic customers and partners on technical architecture, onboarding, incident reviews, and roadmap alignment.

About Mastercard

Real Time Payments (RTP) program is leading the secular shift in Payments towards real-time account-to-account payments and provides CNI payment services across 6 markets globally. Role We are seeking a Vice President of Software Engineering to provide strategic, technical, and people leadership for the RTP program. This role will lead multiple engineering team and partner closely with global counterparts across engineering, product, operations, risk, security, and customer teams. The ideal cand