This role pays more than
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of similar roles. Most pay
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About Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, processing transactions between financial institutions and merchants using its extensive network of credit, debit, and prepaid card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services
Mastercard currently has
128 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$122,000–$207,000
across 114 roles with salary data.
Senior Vice President, Software Engineering serves as an Engineering Co-Founder for Decision Stream, a startup-style venture within Mastercard focused on building an AI-native decisioning platform. This leader will establish the engineering vision, drive technical investment decisions, and lead the architecture execution for a cloud-native platform addressing payments, fraud, authentication, and risk domains. The role involves building and scaling world-class teams across distributed systems, AI, and product development while managing the transition from MVP validation to scaled adoption. Key responsibilities include overseeing streaming, orchestration, rules execution, and AI inference while ensuring high availability and reliability. Required expertise includes cloud-native architecture, microservices, event-driven systems, and experience with technologies like Kafka or Flink. The candidate must navigate complex technical challenges in financial services technology to deliver a scalable platform that balances rapid experimentation with enterprise-grade engineering discipline.