Director of Software Engineering

Mastercard
Dublin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["REST","GRPC","API design","AWS","Azure","GCP","Docker","Kubernetes","CI/CD","Observability","Monitoring","Logging","SLOs","Security","AuthN","AuthZ","Encryption","Secrets management"]

Lead a high‑performing software engineering team building API platforms and backend services to expose foundation model capabilities. Drive API design, distributed systems, and secure, scalable production software; partner with AI teams to integrate models into enterprise systems while ensuring security, reliability, and governance.

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Director of Software Engineering

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Job Summary

Lead a high‑performing software engineering team building API platforms and backend services to expose foundation model capabilities. Drive API design, distributed systems, and secure, scalable production software; partner with AI teams to integrate models into enterprise systems while ensuring security, reliability, and governance.
Location: Dublin
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead a team of software engineers responsible for building API platforms and backend services that expose foundation model capabilities (e.g. inference, embeddings, orchestration).
  • •Define and drive best practices for API design, service architecture, and distributed systems development.
  • •Ensure platforms are secure by design, implementing authentication, authorization, data protection, and auditability controls.
  • •Oversee the development of scalable, reliable, and high‑performance services, including traffic management, fault tolerance, and latency optimisation.
  • •Partner with AI engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of models into production systems, abstracting complexity for downstream consumers.

Key Requirements

  • •Proven experience leading teams delivering production software systems at scale, ideally in platform or API-driven environments.
  • •Strong background in backend and distributed systems engineering, including API design (REST/gRPC) and service-based architectures.
  • •Experience building and operating cloud-native platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including containerisation and orchestration technologies.
  • •Solid understanding of security best practices, including authN/authZ, encryption, secrets management, and secure API design.
  • •Experience supporting AI/ML or data-driven systems, with familiarity in model integration patterns and production AI usage (preferred).
Experience:AICloudAPIDistributed systems
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:RESTGRPCAPI designAWSAzureGCPDockerKubernetesCI/CDObservabilityMonitoringLoggingSLOsSecurityAuthNAuthZEncryptionSecrets management

Company Brief

Mastercard
Mastercard is a global payments and technology company that processes transactions, provides fraud prevention and data services, and builds payment infrastructure for consumers, businesses, merchants and governments across 200+ countries.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Purchase, New York, United States
Founded: 1966
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