Senior Engineering Manager

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.

Functional Description

American Express Global Card Network Platform authorizes and processes all of the company’s customer card transactions. The Card Network platform is the critical back bone for all of American Express card transactions, and is a near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year. American Express is making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to allow the company to meet its ambitious global growth agenda. American Express is looking for strong leaders and engineers to be part of high energy and efficient teams that will build and support our next generation card network systems.

Role Description:  

B.Tech. / B.E. / M.Tech. / M.S. in Computer Science or relevant discipline 

· 10+ years of experience in design and development of highly -scalable applications and platform development 

· You will work with the multiple teams and guide them on technical aspects, set quality standards and participate in design discussion and drive technical decisions 

· Architecture, Design Reviews & Code Reviews across teams 

· Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products. 

· Extensive hands-on experience building services using these technologies ( Java, Springboot, Microservices) 

· In depth knowledge and Hands-on working experience on Restful web services 

· Good Knowledge in messaging systems: Kafka/RabbitMQ 

· Good Knowledge of BigData technologies like Spark, schedulers like Oozie / Airflow  

· Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database technologies like Couchbase and Cassandra

· Knowledge on unit testing frameworks (Junit, Jest , Spock etc) and code quality control platforms like Sonar 

· CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Gradle, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure DevOps 

· Experience in implementing Distributed Cache(Redis/Hazlecast) 

· Well-Versed with Logging and Metrics tools and technologies (ELK/Splunk/Grafana) 

· Knowledge in search engines like Lucene/Solr 

· Strong hands on development skills to prototype technical solutions. 

· Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Willing to learn new and emerging technologies. 

· Hosted & Participated in architecture Review & Design/Code Review events. 

· Hands on System Designing experience. 

· Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control. 

· Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology 

· Have excellent written and verbal communications skills. Create and deliver effective presentations to Senior Leadership. 

· Familiarity with design patterns and anti-patterns 

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

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.  

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