Manager Software Engineering

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 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 pr ... (truncated, view full listing at source)