Manager, Software Engineering - Java Full Stack

Job Description

Dynamic Yield, a Mastercard company, is dedicated to connecting and powering an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere. Our Network & Digital Payments group creates valued experiences for consumers and enables merchants and issuers to reach consumers in unprecedented ways. The global product engineering team is responsible for developing a suite of foundational payment solutions. We are seeking a Manager, Software Engineering - Java Full Stack to lead a highly motivated team focused on bringing security, convenience, and control to digital payments. If you're a seasoned leader with a passion for global-scale product engineering, driving innovation, and maintaining high standards for excellence in an agile environment, this opportunity is for you. The Role As a Manager, Software Engineering, you will: Team Leadership & Coaching: Supervise and coach teams of engineers to build, enhance, and support multiple applications/services for digital payment solutions. Product Development: Work closely with product owners to design, develop, and launch features and services for new and existing products. Talent Management: Recruit and hire top talent, always aiming to bring in individuals who elevate the team's capabilities. Performance & Development: Ensure objectives and development plans are established with the global leadership team and continuously reviewed. Continuously engage and improve team performance through recurring 1-1 meetings, career development discussions, and proactive risk management. Feedback & Mentoring: Provide and facilitate timely feedback, coaching in the moment, and mentoring for staff at all levels. Culture & Values: Emulate and drive Mastercard Way behaviors through personal conduct, recognitions, coaching, and employee engagement. Strategic & Technical Guidance: Provide strategic thinking and collaborate with the global leadership team on a wide range of software design and development methodologies for cloud deployments. Drive technical review of design and code across services to identify anti-patterns and promote continuous refactoring. Engineering Excellence: Benchmark and drive engineering productivity, quality, and technology policy compliance within your areas of ownership. Form strong relationships with global leadership to raise the engineering bar in developing digital payment solutions. Operational Insight: Understand and elaborate on technical debt and operational issues to drive prioritization discussions with stakeholders, improving the production experience. Capacity Planning: Understand system architecture to plan for platform and infrastructure capacity (e.g., database, compute, network, storage) and drive dependency prioritization to reduce delivery lead time. All About You Experience: Overall career span of 9-14 years with an experience working as a people Manager/Tech Lead with hands-on coding experience . Leadership Track Record: Successful track record in managing development teams with demonstrated thought-leadership, cross-functional influence, and partnerships. Backend Expertise: Extensive experience working on server-side, backend applications, and technologies. Technical Acumen: Skills to drive technical review of design and code across services. Ability to understand and elaborate technical debt and operational issues. Understanding of system architecture to plan for platform and infrastructure capacity and drive dependency prioritization. Proficient working and managing products on JEE, Java 8 or higher, Spring Stack, Hibernate, and Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, Any NoSQL DB like Redis, Mongo), RESTful architecture . Proven design and development experience in multiple languages, secure coding standards, and deployment environments. Ability to apply advanced design patterns, Application Programming Interface (API) standards, adoption, and commercialization. Can write performant code and debug/troubleshoot complex issues across multi-tiered software architectures. Experience analyzing, designing, and implementing scalable data retention architectures. Cloud & Containerization: Experience deploying complex applications into cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud using containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes . Testing Strategies: Ability to build robust testing strategies to minimize defects through regression, performance, deployment verification, and release testing processes. Agile Mindset: Comfortable leading engineers that are exploring and defining new ways of working. Communication: Good oral and written communicator. Explains concepts accurately and well across a range of technical and business domains, with a very high level of precision in technical and design discussions. Conveys ideas to significantly enhance understanding, collaboration, and engagement across seniority levels, roles, and geographies. Problem-Solving & Debugging: Highly effective at debugging complex issues and relentless in discovering root causes of bugs that span multiple services and product modules. Collaboration: Enjoys sharing knowledge and experience with colleagues across locations. Impact-Driven: Excited to build applications that have a global impact and are used daily by hundreds of millions of people. It would also be great if you have: Experience using Spring Framework components in developing backend services. Experience using Pivotal Cloud Foundry to deploy cloud-ready applications. Experience using Domain Driven Design to solve business problems. Experience building Event-Driven applications . Experience building 12-factor applications . Full-stack experience , capable of solving all aspects of a technology problem to deliver a solution to a production environment. First-hand knowledge of a wide range of technologies (databases, messaging, caches, API gateways, networking, pipelines, cryptography, HSM) and preferably products we use such as Jenkins, Splunk, Oracle, Apache Kafka, Redis, and NATS .