Software Engineering Manager, Fraud & Payments

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
Software Engineering Manager, Fraud & Payments
Overview:
The Mastercard Fraud Platform team is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead a newly established team designing and developing next-generation capabilities on the Mastercard Fraud Management Platform - a mission-critical system that authenticates users, combats fraud, and protects cardholders across billions of transactions and 210 countries.
In this role, you will own the technical direction and growth of the team, balancing strategic leadership with hands-on guidance. You'll drive architectural decisions, uphold engineering quality, and scale the team as it grows - building industry-leading fraud prevention capabilities for one of the world's largest payment networks.
The Role:
* Provide technical leadership for the evolution of the Fraud Platform architecture into a microservice-driven, cloud and on-premises solution, balancing business and technical needs to find sound, pragmatic compromises.
* Partner with Business and Product Owners to prioritize enhancements and influence strategic decisions.
* Manage, grow, and recruit a software development team - including test engineers, analysts, scrum masters, and development engineers.
* Drive a culture of continuous improvement, quality, and operational excellence, providing ongoing coaching and feedback to enable a high-performing team.
All About You:
* Proven experience as a Software Engineer or Developer with a strong Java background, with demonstrated success transitioning into an engineering leadership role.
* Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, messaging systems, and cloud services, with the ability to provide meaningful technical guidance and drive quality across high-volume, low-latency environments.
* Strong expertise in defining and using operational metrics across business outcomes, performance, and availability.
* Experience growing and scaling engineering teams, including hiring and developing talent.
* Prior experience in financial services, payments, or fraud is preferred.
This is a full-time position based in Vancouver, Canada.
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 [email protected] 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 Canada, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive pay based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program.
Pay Ranges
Vancouver, Canada: $127,000 - $203,000 CAD