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.

• Responsible for owning and managing Global Loyalty classic partner apps
• Recent hands-on coding experience in the backend technology stack Java/J2EE/Golang are preferred.
• Lead and work with a team of highly accomplished engineers to build and deliver the tech roadmap.
• Work with Staff engineers and other tech leaders to prioritize features for web platforms and manage a list of requirements based on industry trends and new technologies.
• Evaluating and adopting new tools, frameworks, SDKs for Global Loyalty partner domain.
• Perform rapid POCs as needed to experiment and set direction for the engineering team.
• Mentor and nurture talent and promote a culture of togetherness, partnership, and continuous team improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.
• Responsible for the people management of a co-located and remote engineering teams.
• Recruit and hire outstanding and diverse web talent from the industry.
• Influence up/down/across and promote modern software engineering principles!
• Collaborate with enterprise technology teams to motivate change required and support the team in technical issue resolution.
• Think out of the box and bring an external engineering expertise and view. Desire to learn new technologies, ability to enable business capabilities through innovation and increase efficiency in crafting and delivering new capabilities with our global colleagues
• Engage in 1-on-1 conversations with team members for mentorship and career development planning.

Qualifications

·        Position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field followed by 10+ years of experience in a modern development stack Java, Golang, Kafka, REST API

• Recent experience leading a team or currently a tech lead for a team.
• Great at working with a team to build solutions and courageous in pushing for a better way to deliver software that solves customer/business problems.
• Experience working with UNIX, Informatica is a plus
• Experience building and managing tools and frameworks-with performing, availability and high scalability and bringing in new technologies based on current industry standards.
• Proven experience hiring, retaining, and leading high-caliber engineering talent.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to cater to a diverse audience: executive collaborator, partner, engineering.
• Experience leading and building software engineering teams designing and building efficient software products in a fast-paced, sophisticated, and dynamic software development environment. 
• Experience with Agile, Scrum or other rapid application development methodologies is required.
• Commitment to drive a culture of accountability and ownership to empower teams and motivate change.
• Experience leading individual contributors and providing career direction, coaching, and building development plans.
• Experience working in a distributed team model and collaborating with remote team members.

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.