Senior Engineering Manager

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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.

Functional Description:

We are on the journey to develop a best in class, modern communications and storage solution for the enterprise, to support the digital first strategy, improve our cost efficiency and ensure better self-service for all our consumers as part of our technology roadmap.  With billions servicing communications being sent and stored annually, we are continuing to invest in innovation, modernization and leading-edge technologies is critically important, especially as we move through our platform and product journey. 

Roles & Responsibilities:

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to deliver world-class software solutions supporting our platform vision. This includes using leading-edge modern technology stack, fostering engineering culture, innovation using new capabilities, designing and building new ways to enhance and expose our capabilities via API’s, cultivating continual improvement in system quality, performance, and robust coding frameworks.

Translate user needs into system requirements and solution design, partner Senior Engineer(s) to ensure design meets technology standards and uses appropriate design patterns.  Develop software applications to high coding standards, ensure code is testable throughout and meets the resilience of test automation tools.  Measure and optimize application code performance and integration of component systems. Support deployment of changes into production.  Ensure adherence to CI/CD toolsets

As Senior Engineering Manager, you will also be a people leader who is skilled and an enthusiastic Engineering leader with an enquiring mind and tons of energy to actively provide people-leadership, promote learning and growth of engineering teams and ultimately build a strong engineering culture and happy productive team members. As Senior Engineering Manager you will have hands on with the design, coding and reviews, taking the lead on strategic outcomes and support solving of complex challenges. 

As a people leader for multiple scrum teams, span of control of at 6 or more team members, including both colleagues and contractors.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline
• 8+ years of software development experience
• Function as member of an agile team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation)
• Ability to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutions
• Hands-on expertise with application design
• Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential
• Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms
• Participate in code reviews and automated testing
• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation
• Enable the deployment, support, and monitoring of software across test, integration, and production environments
• Automate deployments in test or production environments

Preferred Qualifications:

• Java - Java 8+ experience building enterprise applications with proven design patterns
• Spring - Experience/knowledge with the Spring framework, specifically Spring Boot and RESTful APIs
• VertX – Experience/knowledge with VertX
• Databases – Experience/knowledge of RMDBMS databases.
• NoSQL - Experience/knowledge with NoSQL databases such as Couchbase is an advantage.
• React - Experience/knowledge for front-end (UI) development
• CI/CD - Build pipelines for continue integration and delivery: Git, Jenkins, etc.
• Testing Frameworks - Experience with Testing Frameworks for backend/front-end and backend automation testing
• jBPM - Understanding of JBoss BPM to build simple workflow (rules/process) solutions is a nice to have 
• PaaS - Experience/knowledge of AWS

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.