American Express

Senior Engineering Manager - Digital Banking

New York, NY US
USD 110k - 190k
Spring Microservices API Docker Kubernetes Git Java
Description

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives.  Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems.  American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source.  And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development.  Find your place in technology of #TeamAmex.

We are building a banking platform that enables teams to create products at scale and powers digital channels to deliver compelling experiences in a dramatically faster fashion. As the Senior Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for building this innovative technology framework that facilitates developer productivity without compromising on quality at an enterprise scale.  

We look primarily for people who are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. You will be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders daily to stay focused on common goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. We welcome diverse perspectives and people who are not afraid to challenge assumptions. 

Our mission is to accelerate the pace of financial innovation and build new financial products for American Express. Our platform streamlines the process of launching and iterating financial products. 

Responsibilities: 

  • Collaborate with product, design, compliance, and business stakeholders to create unique, best in class banking experiences.
  • Build, mentor, and grow a team of talented engineers who are empathetic to both our customers as well as to their internal stakeholders while being aggressive in always doing the right thing.
  • Act as a technical resource for engineers, designers, and product managers.
  • Leverage expertise in internal systems and internet scale solutions to help others solve problems and deliver top notch experiences.
  • Build a culture of accountability, respect, and excellence. Own all the quality aspects and metrics for banking products, including system performance, platform availability, operational efficiency, information security, data management.
  • Actively leads long-range strategy planning to address complex business issues. 
  • Push to constantly be shipping working, secure, well-tested code to production. 

Qualifications: 

  • Must have minimum of 6+ years technical leadership role leading engineering teams.
  • Must Have 10+ years of technical experience in building Banking Core (Financial Accounting, General Ledger, Product Configurations)
  • Demonstrated experience of designing and building developing large scale, low latency, high resiliency solution primarily using backend technologies in a fast paced, complex dynamic environment.
  • Must have demonstrated proficiency and experience in the following tools and technologies:
    • Java 8+ (Lambdas, Streams, Completable Future, optional, generics)
    • Spring boot (Webflux , Reactor 3), Spring-data, REST
    • Java functional and reactive programming
    • Test Driven Development
    • Asynchronous Reactive Micro services utilizing Vert.x   
    • REST APIs using Spring Boot 2.0 (reactive) and skilled in Open API (swagger) specification
    • Designing database schemas, index design, optimizations for query tuning  
    • Working knowledge of cloud technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Jaeger, Prometheus)
    • Modern software engineering tools: git workflows, gradle, load testing tools, mock frameworks
  • Proven record of accomplishment of instilling culture of technical excellence, engineering best practices, and striving for execution efficiencies.
  • Strategic thinker with analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Technical fluency - ability to clearly describe tradeoffs to technical and non- technical audiences alike to help support product decisions.
  • Highly organized with strong prioritization skills and outstanding written and verbal communication - you are great at research and documenting your learnings.
  • The ability to set a high bar for your team and empower them to achieve remarkable results
  • A “driver” personality - constantly pushing toward clarity and delivery while balancing the need for great collaboration and reusability where possible
  • Solid foundation in design, data structures and algorithms, and strong analytical and debugging skills with customer-facing products experience.
  • A bachelor's degree in engineering or related field   

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

  • Competitive base salaries 
  • Bonus incentives 
  • 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
  • Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
  • Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
  • 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
  • Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) 
  • Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program 
  • Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.

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