# Manager, Software Engineering, AI Foundations

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Atlanta, Georgia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $140,000 - $231,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead the design, development, and delivery of AI platform capabilities that enable intelligent products and agentic experiences across B&MI.

This role combines people leadership, technical ownership, and cross-functional delivery accountability. You will lead one or more engineering teams building reusable AI platform services, integration patterns, and production capabilities.

Responsibilities:

- Lead, coach, and develop one or more teams of software engineers by setting clear goals, managing performance, and creating development plans aligned to individual and organizational objectives.

- Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement, and partner with leadership on hiring, team composition, and long-term planning.

- Guide teams through change and ambiguity, connecting team priorities to broader business and enterprise goals.

- Own end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives across multiple systems, services, or teams.

- Establish execution frameworks for planning, estimation, and tracking that enable predictable, high-quality delivery.

- Lead development of scalable AI platform services and reusable capabilities that support AI-powered products, intelligent workflows, and agentic systems.

- Drive production integration of AI capabilities, including model inference, LLM-based services, orchestration, enterprise data and system connectivity, evaluation, and guardrails.

- Promote shared engineering patterns and standardization to speed up delivery and reduce duplication across teams.

- Define and evolve AI platform architecture in line with enterprise standards for scalability, security, interoperability, and maintainability.

- Evaluate new technologies and lead adoption decisions based on business value, technical fit, and long-term sustainability.

- Ensure systems meet Mastercard standards for reliability, security, compliance, performance, and observability.

- Own production health, including troubleshooting, incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

- Collaborate with AI Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers, Architects, and platform teams to deliver integrated AI solutions.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

- Proven experience leading software engineering teams that deliver shared platforms, distributed systems, or AI-enabled capabilities.

- Strong background in distributed systems, object-oriented programming, and backend engineering.

- Hands-on depth in software design and architecture, data structures, code review, and performance engineering.

- Experience designing or integrating production AI capabilities.

- Demonstrated ability to drive architecture decisions and influence system design across teams.

- Experience owning delivery of complex, cross-team initiatives end-to-end.

- Strong understanding of operational practices.

- Proven people management experience.

Preferred Skills:

- Experience building reusable platform capabilities used by multiple product or engineering teams.

- Familiarity with AI evaluation, guardrails, responsible AI practices.

- Experience operating in regulated environments.

Benefits:

- 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

- 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

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## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- object-oriented programming
- backend engineering
- software design
- architecture
- data structures
- code review
- performance engineering
- AI capabilities
- people management

### Nice to have
- reusable platform capabilities
- AI evaluation
- guardrails
- responsible AI practices
- regulated environments

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