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JOB DESCRIPTIONOur 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 Senior Vice President - Software Engineering, Commercial Acceptance Overview The Commercial Solutions group is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard's next-generation B2B payment applications, including Virtual Card solutions. We are looking for a Senior Vice President of Software Engineering to join our global team and drive the evolution of our Commercial Acceptance platform. This role focuses on technology transformation and cultivating a strong engineering team culture. We are building products that will scale globally and help businesses make payments faster, sooner, and smarter. Our products are designed and built to run anywhere, for anyone. The SVP of Acceptance Engineering is a technology leader and strategic thinker who can zoom into low-level details where required and will set technical direction for the global team. A key aspect of this role will be working closely with product and enterprise technology leadership to execute a transformation roadmap. The Role - Develop a detailed technology roadmap and execution plan in partnership with product and technology leadership. - Provide thought leadership to drive new product development and work across domains to drive Commercial flows. - Provide senior leadership to large, diverse engineering teams delivering change and development to the core platforms supporting the Commercial business. - Lead globally distributed teams supporting Mastercard's Commercial Solutions engineering capability; set direction, tone, and strategy within the Product & Engineering framework. - Drive a strong operational stability culture across the team, remaining laser focused on proactive measures to improve the current platforms, driving improvements in metrics such as incident reduction, reduced MTTM, timely resolution of defects, and reduction in toil. - Work with P&C; and recruitment to strengthen processes to nurture and grow technology talent across multiple global locations. - Manage alignment across product, engineering, and regional teams on strategy, priorities, and growth objectives. - Develop solid internal executive-level partnerships to ensure cross-functional alignment and execute on shared initiatives. - Lead by example to embed the Mastercard Way principles across the group. All About You - Hands-on experience leading large-scale technology transformation initiatives. - Experience leading initiatives in the payments domain. - Deep technical knowledge of event-driven architecture patterns, asynchronous microservice design, software frameworks, and complex distributed systems. - Experience designing and deploying applications to public cloud infrastructure. - Deep knowledge of secure SDLC best practices, focusing on continuous testing and validation. - Proven history of building global engineering teams with a strong emphasis on talent development. - Demonstrates the ability to engage in multi-disciplinary collaboration to achieve collective outcomes. - Ability to communicate across various audiences to influence, inspire, and drive decision-making. - Highly collaborative leadership style leading to increased employee engagement. Corporate Security Responsibility All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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. Apply Now Save job .
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.