Director, Software EngineeringApply locations Dublin, Ireland time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago time left to apply End Date: April 30, 2025 (19 days left to apply) job requisition id R-234263Our PurposeMastercard 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 SummaryDirector, Software EngineeringWho is MastercardMastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible.Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.Overview:Mastercard is looking for a talented Director Software Engineer to join the Mastercard Cross Border Services team in Dublin (Ireland) location that’s focused on building Cross Border Services (XBS) capabilities to financial services. This role will be pivotal for XBS in the cloud transformation journey. In this role, you will be part of a highly agile team building exciting and innovative products delivered at scale to global markets.The Role:Technology leader who is hands-on and can lead a team of engineers. Expected to spend a significant % of time coding/on code related activities and remainder on coaching engineers on the team.This person is recognized as a team’s authority and technical expert who drives innovation and organizational growth through their contributions.Implement, monitor and maintain compliance and security concerns in CI/CD pipelines to bring life to the principle of “Code is Design and Design is Code”.Domain driven design in their game. They code to enforce the contextual mappings and aggregates for each bounded context.Drive implementation of consumer driven contracts to allow for evolution and learning of the domain model with hyper speed while meeting our promises to other teams internally and customers alike.Polyglot engineering guru who brings cutting edge engineering practices to life in multiple evolving frameworks.Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drives resolution.Work with business/product owners to architect and deliver on new services to introduce new products and bundles.Participate and contribute to team’s agile process and decisions. Understand and contribute to prioritization.Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies.Take ownership to improve the customer experience of an entire set of services/applications sold as products or bundled services.Contribute and lead Guild initiatives by engaging and mentoring Engineers at all levels to improve the craftsmanship of Software Engineering.Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy.Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests.Venture beyond comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of Software Engineering.Participate and contribute to Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs.Write recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one's accomplishments.Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar.Identify and raise awareness to siloed behaviors within the organization and teams.All About You and What you need to bring:Expert in building highly resilient & scalable distributed systems. Has deep exposure to various database, messaging & caching technologies.Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages (e.g., Java, .NET, JavaScript, SQL), secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management.Expert understanding and experience of DevOps best practices to guide developers and abstract application development from underlying hosting platforms and infrastructure.Experienced in the skills required to implement advanced test setups in production environment (e.g., A/B testing, canary releases, blue-green deployment, feature flags).Experience in Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization.Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mainframe) to write interoperable and performant code.Skills to develop and evangelize on reference architecture and run principles to help teams adopt Engineering Principles from the start.Understands use cases for advanced design patterns to implement efficient code.Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization.Skills to promote and coach teams on full stack development and facilitate end-to-end service ownership.Experience in leading and coaching teams to perform software planning and estimation for large scale complex programs.Skills to drive trade-off discussions to set right development capacity based on value drivers.Experience in design and execution of automation across multiple business areas and provides guidance on best methods and tools.Performance engineering experience to ensure applications are built to scale, run, and perform for varying demands.Skills to evaluate practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize SDLC methodologies and automate processes to improve lead time and quality.Skills to perform architecture and cost analysis for internal, hybrid, and public cloud environments.Skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders.Skills to define and drive advanced chaos and other operational testing practices to test points of failures, monitors, and system behaviors under adverse conditions.Experienced in agile and modern SDLC practices (Scrum/Kanban/Continuous Delivery/DevOps/Quality engineering) and the delivery situations they are used for.Corporate Security ResponsibilityAll 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;Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
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