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About the Role

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people worldwide. We are seeking a visionary and hands-on VP of Software Engineering to help build and scale Decision Stream, our next-generation AI-native decisioning platform. This leader will partner closely with Product, Architecture, AI, and Platform Engineering teams to drive technology strategy, architecture, engineering execution, and organizational growth.

Responsibilities

Serve 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.
Operate as a builder, innovator, and servant leader.
Combine strategic thinking with hands-on technical engagement.
Demonstrate curiosity, ownership, and a bias for action.
Lead through technical credibility, coaching, and execution excellence.
Inspire teams to solve hard problems and deliver meaningful business outcomes.
Regularly engage in architecture reviews, design discussions, technology trade-off decisions, and critical problem-solving.
Help define the long-term technology vision for Decision Stream.

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.
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.

Skills

Cloud-native architectures
Microservices
APIs
Data platforms
Event-driven systems
AI/ML platforms
Intelligent decisioning systems
Kafka
Flink
Kubernetes
Modern cloud platforms

Location

San Francisco, California
Atlanta, Georgia
New York City, New York

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Vice President
Senior technology leader

Salary/Compensations

San Francisco, California: $254,000 - $407,000 USD
Atlanta, Georgia: $212,000 - $339,000 USD
New York City, New York: $254,000 - $407,000 USD

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
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

About the Company

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.

Equal Opportunity

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We hire the most qualified candidate for the role.
In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must: Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices; Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed; Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.