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.

Our Global Commercial Services team is seeking a driven, well-rounded computer science professional to join our growing team. You must be a self-starter! Eager to learn new technology trends, and partner with the business teams to ensure technology changes do not impact our customers. If you are an engineer with a passion for operating things and the desire to understand full stack (business down to infrastructure), and you embrace the instinct to code problems away, then this dynamic role is for you!

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

·Demonstrate strong collaboration with stakeholders on roadmap/strategy.

·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