# Vice President, Software Engineering

**Company**: Mastercard
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $254,000 - $407,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Vice President of Software Engineering to lead the development of its next-generation AI-native decisioning platform, Decision Stream. The platform is designed to power intelligent, real-time decisions across fraud, authentication, payments, and risk.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead through technical excellence, serving as a senior technology leader and role model for engineering teams

- Drive architecture, design, and technology decisions across distributed systems, streaming, AI, and cloud-native platforms

- Engage deeply with engineers, architects, and product leaders to solve complex technical challenges

- Influence engineering standards, software quality, and operational excellence

- Help shape and deliver a highly scalable, resilient, and secure decisioning platform operating at Mastercard scale

- Balance long-term platform vision with day-to-day execution

- Drive simplicity, reliability, performance, and continuous innovation

- Recruit, mentor, and develop exceptional engineering talent

- Foster a culture of ownership, technical curiosity, accountability, and collaboration

- Build strong technical leadership across engineering teams

- Partner closely with Product and business stakeholders to align engineering investments with customer and business value

- Drive execution from concept through production adoption

- Establish operational rhythms, engineering metrics, and continuous improvement practices

**Requirements:**

- Proven experience leading software engineering teams building large-scale distributed platforms

- Strong hands-on technical background in cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, data platforms, and event-driven systems

- Demonstrated ability to influence architecture and engage deeply in technical design discussions

- Track record delivering highly available, resilient, and mission-critical systems at scale

- Strong collaboration, communication, and leadership skills

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience with AI/ML platforms and intelligent decisioning systems

- Experience with technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Kubernetes, and modern cloud platforms

- Background in payments, fraud, risk, or financial services

- Experience building new platforms, products, or transformational technology initiatives

**Benefits:**

- Competitive base salary

- Annual bonus or commissions depending on the role

- Insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)

- Flexible spending account and health savings account

- Paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)

- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time

- 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days

- 401k with a best-in-class company match

- Deferred compensation for eligible roles

- Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities

- Eligibility for tuition reimbursement

## Skills

### Required
- cloud-native architectures
- microservices
- APIs
- data platforms
- event-driven systems
- AI
- ML

### Nice to have
- Kafka
- Flink
- Kubernetes
- modern cloud platforms
- payments
- fraud
- risk
- financial services

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