At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

We are building a banking platform that enables teams to create products at scale and powers digital channels to deliver compelling experiences in a dramatically faster fashion. As the Senior Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for building this innovative technology framework that facilitates developer productivity without compromising on quality at an enterprise scale.  

We look primarily for people who are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. You will be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with your many stakeholders daily to stay focused on common goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. We welcome diverse perspectives and people who are not afraid to challenge assumptions. 

Our mission is to accelerate the pace of financial innovation and build new financial products for American Express. Our platform streamlines the process of launching and iterating financial products. 

Responsibilities: 

Collaborate with product, design, compliance, and business stakeholders to create unique, best in class banking experiences. 

Build, mentor, and grow a team of talented engineers who are empathetic to both our customers as well as to their internal stakeholders while being aggressive in always doing the right thing. 

Act as a technical resource for engineers, designers, and product managers. 

Leverage expertise in internal systems and internet scale solutions to help others solve problems and deliver top notch experiences. 

Build a culture of accountability, respect, and excellence. Own all the quality aspects and metrics for banking products, including system performance, platform availability, operational efficiency, information security, data management. 

Actively leads long-range strategy planning to address complex business issues.  

Push to constantly be shipping working, secure, well-tested code to production. 

 

Qualifications: 

Must have minimum of 6+ years technical leadership role leading engineering teams. 

10+ years of relevant technical experience in backend software development roles 

Demonstrated experience of designing and building developing large scale, low latency, high resiliency solution primarily using backend technologies in a fast paced, complex dynamic environment. 

Must have demonstrated proficiency and experience in the following tools and technologies: 

Java 8+ (Lambdas, Streams, Completable Future, optional, generics) 

Spring boot (Webflux , Reactor 3), Spring-data, REST 

Java functional and reactive programming 

Test Driven Development  

Asynchronous Reactive Micro services utilizing Vert.x    

REST APIs using Spring Boot 2.0 (reactive) and skilled in Open API (swagger) specification  

Designing database schemas, index design, optimizations for query tuning   

Working knowledge of cloud technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Jaeger, Prometheus) 

Modern software engineering tools: git workflows, gradle, load testing tools, mock frameworks 

Proven record of accomplishment of instilling culture of technical excellence, engineering best practices, and striving for execution efficiencies. 

Strategic thinker with analytical and problem-solving skills 

Technical fluency - ability to clearly describe tradeoffs to technical and non- technical audiences alike to help support product decisions. 

Highly organized with strong prioritization skills and outstanding written and verbal communication - you are great at research and documenting your learnings. 

The ability to set a high bar for your team and empower them to achieve remarkable results 

A “driver” personality - constantly pushing toward clarity and delivery while balancing the need for great collaboration and reusability where possible 

Solid foundation in design, data structures and algorithms, and strong analytical and debugging skills with customer-facing products experience. 

A bachelor's degree in engineering or related field   

 

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

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.