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