Sr. 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.

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

Minimum Qualifications

 Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required
• 10+ years of software engineering, architecture experience
• 4+ years leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience
• Proven ability to architect, design & implement scalable, resilient, highly available solutions to complex business problems
• .Successful design, creation and deployment of one or more enterprise-grade technology assets, including integration of cross-platform solutions in an Agile product environment
• Experience with agile software development methodologies and practices such as Scrum/Kanban, iterations, user stories
• Experience supporting production issues with on-call support
• Ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to learn and adapt in a rapidly changing environment
• Adaptable to changes in product requirements, organizational structures and business conditions

Knowledge/Skills

• ·       Significant expertise in architecture & design patterns, designing & building enterprise applications.

  ·       Experience in cloud platforms is a plus.

  ·       Hands on experience in designing & developing applications using Java 11 or higher with Spring framework, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Spring Security or similar security frameworks, RDBMS(Postgres/Oracle or similar), Containerization etc.,

  ·       Hands-on experience in analyzing production issues using logging, monitoring & alerting tools.

  ·       Thorough knowledge on application security guidelines & vulnerabilities management

  ·       Experience on DevOps related practices such as CI/CD, Logging, Observability, Monitoring etc.,

  ·       Thorough knowledge of multi-tier application architectures.

  ·       Proven experience in driving test automation using test frameworks

  ·       Knowledge and understanding of the SDLC principles and key controls

  ·       Good understanding of BDD & TDD practices.

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.