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Title and Summary

Manager Software Engineering

Overview

Mastercard’s Graphite team, within the Business & Market Insights Platform Engineering (BMIPE) organization, is seeking a Manager Software Engineering passionate about developing talent and delivering scalable, high-quality frontend solutions across multiple teams and business lines.

The team’s core product is a design system that accelerates development and time-to-market by providing accessible, reusable, and flexible UI components.

In this role, you will operate as both a people leader (approximately 70%) and a hands-on technical leader (approximately 30%). You will mentor and grow engineers while actively contributing to architecture, code quality, and delivery. As a multiplier for the team, you will help drive technical excellence, anticipate challenges, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver against sprint goals and long-term roadmap priorities.

The Graphite team focuses on building and evolving a comprehensive full-stack design system that enables teams across Mastercard to deliver modern, accessible, scalable, and high-performance front-end experiences. Our goal is to empower product teams to build consistent user interfaces quickly by providing reusable components, tooling, and clear development

This is a hybrid position based in Arlington, VA, requiring three days per week onsite.

Role

• Lead the evolution of a scalable, themeable, and resilient design system, ensuring alignment across teams and anticipating future needs.
• Drive the development of reusable, composable, and accessible React components, contributing hands-on when needed.
• Act as a high-impact individual contributor when required, owning complex initiatives from concept through delivery.
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, architectural guidance, and continuous improvement of engineering standards.
• Partner cross-functionally to gather requirements, clarify dependencies, and enable efficient execution.
• Shape and communicate a clear technical vision and roadmap, aligned with business goals and industry best practices.
• Guide engineers through ambiguity, ensuring successful delivery of large-scale initiatives.
• Mentor and develop team members, fostering a high-performing and collaborative engineering culture.
• Influence and improve team processes, driving efficiency and operational excellence.
• Manage and support engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, performance management, and career development.

All About You:

• Proven experience as a Software Engineer with prior people management experience, including leading, mentoring, and developing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated success managing performance, providing feedback, and supporting career growth for direct reports.
• Strong full-stack foundation with deep expertise in modern frontend development, particularly JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
• Passion for both writing high-quality code and building high-performing teams.
• Strong knowledge of modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular) and core web technologies.
• Experience with frontend tools and ecosystems such as TypeScript, CSS, npm, Storybook, and Figma.
• Familiarity with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Playwright, Cypress).
• Experience with or strong interest in design systems, design tokens, and component-based architectures.
• Understanding of accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG, ARIA) and inclusive design principles.
• Strong interest in UI/UX and improving both end-user and developer experiences.
• Ability to provide technical leadership through mentorship, collaboration, and thoughtful code review.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly to diverse audiences.
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as Engineering, Mathematics, or related experience.

This role is not eligible for Mastercard’s work authorization sponsorship. As such, candidates must be eligible to work in the United States, now as well as in the future, without employer sponsorship.

#LI-NF1

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.

Corporate Security Responsibility

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: 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 and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 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; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges

Arlington, Virginia: $161,000 - $266,000 USD