Senior Engineering Manager - Golang

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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.

The Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization. 

The Legato engineering group is building the developer experience for public cloud at American Express. Our aspiration is to stand up a new application in minutes, allowing the company to move quickly to seize market opportunities and implement strategic priorities.
We’re looking for a senior engineering manager to help lead our UK team, with the opportunity to use modern languages and tools and to deploy software in public cloud environments. Our multi-functional team spans the stack, from front ends to APIs to databases.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Engineering Impacts:

• Lead a team of savvy engineers whom are responsible for developing complex, large scale applications
• Partner with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform
•  Help guide and improve engineering practices across teams (eg. code reviews, build and release processes or the effectiveness of scrum ceremonies)
• Empower teams to automate demand driven scalable application deployments in test or production environments
• Apply any specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to team initiatives, helping to identify complex and/or broad problems and formulate recommendations
• Collaborate with leadership across teams to define solutions that drive greater software maturity and practices

Leadership Impacts

• People Leader to software engineering team, including junior and mid-level colleagues and contractors, dotted line leadership to other senior-level colleagues in team(s) 
•  Promote, empower, and practice servant-leadership
• Drive the team’s technical improvements and roadmap
• Take accountability for the technical maturity of the team
• Mentor and guide team members to success; identify strengths and areas for growth in direct reports and guides them to grow in their careers while being more productive on the team
• Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
• Work with Engineering Director to hire top talent for the team

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• People leader for a high functioning team of engineers reporting to an Engineering Director who is responsible for multiple teams.
•  Lead and mentor teams of engineers through ongoing development efforts
•  Formal people-leadership responsibilities for 4-8+ engineers

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred
• Proven experience in active engineering
• Demonstrated leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience
• Successful design, creation and deployment of one or more enterprise-grade technology assets, including integration of cross-platform solutions in an agile product environmen
• Experience with agile software development methodologies and practices (eg. Scrum/Kanban, sprint iterations, user stories)
• Ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

Engineering & Architecture

• Hands on experience with automation testing and documentation (i.e. automated, functional, and performance)
• Ability to learn and adapt in a rapidly changing environment.
•  Adaptable to changes in product requirements, organizational structures and business conditions
• Engaged with the broader technology community (e.g. open source, public speaking, technical forums)

Preferred Qualifications

• Adaptive Communication
• Agile Practices
• Industry and Company Knowledge
• Organizational Change Management
• Technical Acumen
• Technology Industry Trends
• Adaptability
• Collaboration & Teamwork
• Continuous Improvement
• Courage
• Curiosity
• Ingenuity
• Servant Leadership
• Tenacity
• Emerging Technologies
• Programming/Software Development
• SDLC Methodologies and Practice
• Systems Design
• Testing

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 
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location) 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location) 
• 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

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.