This role pays more than
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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
131 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$120,000–$204,000
across 121 roles with salary data.
As the Vice President, Software Engineering, you will join the team responsible for Decision Stream, an AI-native decisioning platform designed to power real-time decisions across fraud, authentication, payments, and risk. You will serve as a senior technical leader and role model, driving architecture, design, and technology decisions for distributed systems, streaming, and cloud-native platforms. Your daily responsibilities include building and scaling a resilient, secure platform while recruiting, mentoring, and developing high-performing engineering talent. To succeed, you must possess deep expertise in microservices, APIs, data platforms, and event-driven systems. The role specifically utilizes technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Kubernetes, and modern cloud platforms to solve complex technical challenges within the payments and financial services domain. You will balance long-term platform vision with hands-on engagement to ensure high availability and operational excellence for mission-critical systems.
C#
.NET Core
ASP.NET Web API
RESTful API
SQL Server
T-SQL
IBM MQ
Apache Kafka
Microservices
Distributed Systems
CI/CD
Data Modeling
System Integration
Database Architecture
Schema Partitioning