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 #TeamAmex 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. Amex 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 on #TeamAmex.

How will you make an impact in this role?

You would be leading scrum teams with a focus on architecture, help building technical roadmap, mentoring, and making sure quality features get deployed to the production systems. Responsibilities include leadership, design, architecture, development, styling, and deployment of React based web applications on a NodeJS/Java backend leveraging REST APIs or GraphQL to interact.

Senior developers are expected to spend time bringing Juniors up to speed and need to clearly demonstrate that they can mentor and encourage.

We pride ourselves on bringing folks onto the team in a seamless manner and as a senior developer this would be part of your responsibilities. We would expect you to follow the neo-classical scrum agile process with 2-week sprint cycles.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large scale enterprise applications using Java, Springboot, React technologies
• Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments
• Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices
• Provide technical leadership to team members by mentoring & coaching, design & code reviews etc.,
• Proactively identify technical debts in the platform and prioritize with product owners to resolve them before it results in production impact.
• Lead with “Automation mind-set” - Eliminate repetitive manual process through automation.
• Understand platform roadmap and contribute to the platform strategy initiatives.
• Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform
• Establish and accepts responsibility for engineering practices across teams for example the code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective

Leadership

• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements, challenge status quo and demonstrate taking risks.
•  Continuously identify opportunities to improve efficiency of the team by analyzing existing workflow, driving the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results.
• Excellent communication & co-ordination skills
• People Leader to individual scrum team, including colleagues and contractors
• Promote, empower, and practice servant-leadership
• Drives the team’s technical improvements and roadmap
• Takes 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
• Working with Engineering Director to hire top talent for the team

Qualifications

• 12+ year hands on experience in Java, Nodejs, Rest, GraphQL and React
• 2+ Years working as a people leader and guide the team in writing quality code, giving career guidance and help them in visualizing product strategy
• Having experience on Microservices architecture
• Good Communications Skills
• Knowledge of the NPM ecosystem
• An understanding of the of learn monographs
• Supporting teams in making the systems highly available and doing production support on an event of outage
• Understanding and supporting legacy systems and support their modernization roadmap
• Have design and documentation capabilities

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.