Mastercard

Financial Services

Director,SoftwareEngineering

₹55–85L ~AI est. Pune, India FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Director candidates.

The Brief

“Director, Software Engineering at Mastercard. Skills: Platform architecture, Distributed systems, APIs, Event-driven systems. Lead platform strategy. Drive business outcomes”

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Experience building and operating highly scalable, secure, and resilient platforms, Background in software development, Understanding of modern delivery practices

Nice to Have

Java and related software development frameworks experience

What You'll Do.

Lead platform strategy

Drive business outcomes

Drive cross-functional delivery execution

Ensure release readiness

Track delivery progress

Optimize resourcing allocation

Partner with compliance

Partner with engineering teams

Drive reuse across products

Apply payments compliance domain knowledge

Guide platform design

Translate regulatory needs

Drive engineering excellence

Ensure consistent delivery

Ensure high-quality delivery

Focus on time-to-market

Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards

Establish engineering KPIs

Use data to drive continuous improvement

Evaluate new technologies

Adopt new technologies

Scale new technologies

Enhance compliance outcomes

Accelerate business delivery

Foster cross-functional engineering alignment

Drive reuse of platforms

Drive consistency of standards

Drive effective collaboration

Embed a culture of continuous improvement

Leverage retrospectives

Leverage feedback loops

Systematically improve quality

Systematically improve resilience

Systematically improve efficiency

Abide by Mastercard’s security policies

Ensure confidentiality

Ensure integrity of information

Report security violations

Report security breaches

Complete mandatory security trainings

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Engineering alignment; Product teams; Compliance teams; Risk teams; Operations teams

Communication Scope

Explain complex technical concepts

Process & Methodology

Agile, DevOps, SRE

Full Job Description

**Our Purpose** _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._ **Title and Summary** ### Director, Software Engineering ### Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. 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. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Overview The Mastercard Transaction Services (MTS) Compliance Platform Engineering team is responsible for designing, building, and operating shared compliance capabilities for Mastercard’s regulated payment flows. We build reusable services and integration patterns that standardize controls, improve operability and reduce duplicated integrations across products. We are looking for a technically strong engineering leader with deep experience in platform architecture, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven systems, and control automation, who can build scalable, resilient, and auditable compliance capabilities for regulated payment flows. Role As a Director of Software Engineering, you will: Drive business outcomes with the

Free ATS check

Applying for this Director, Software Engineering role?

Most applicants get filtered before a human reads their resume. See if yours makes the cut.

How to Apply on Workday

  • Workday has a multi-step form — save your progress after every section.
  • "Apply With LinkedIn" can fail or lose data; manual entry is more reliable.
  • Watch for the "Submit for Review" final step — hitting "Save" alone does not submit.
  • Job requisition numbers are useful when following up with HR by email.

ANONYMOUS · UNFILTERED

What do employees actually say about Mastercard?

Real rants from real employees. Read before you apply.

Read Company Rants →