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American Express is looking for Senior Engineering Managers to contribute to the company’s focus on building products, like @Work, to support our large and global corporate clients.
@Work helps our clients manage their Corporate Card and Corporate Purchasing Card programs more efficiently online. From performing everyday administrative tasks and account maintenance, to accessing reports and utilizing reconciliation solutions, @Work enables fast, efficient and effective program management resulting in time and cost savings for our clients.
- Scope of Impact/Influence
- People leader for a high-functioning team of engineers reporting to an Engineering Director responsible for multiple teams.
- Leads and mentors teams of engineers through ongoing development efforts
- Formal people-leadership responsibilities for 8+ engineer
Key Responsibilities
- Software Engineering:
- Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large scale enterprise applications
- Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments
- 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
- Empower teams to automate demand driven scalable application deployments in test or production environments
- Apply specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives to identify complex and or broad problems and issues and formulate recommendations
- Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices
Leadership:
- People Leader to software engineering team, including B30 colleagues and contractors, dotted line leadership to B35 colleagues in team(s)
- 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
Knowledge/Skills
- Expertise in software engineering as well as with various Agile methodologies such as SCRUM and Kanban
- Experience with leading employees including having one on one sessions to provide regular feedback and mentoring
- Lead reviews of colleagues' work
- Recent hands-on experience with the primary technology stacks within platform portfolio (relevant frameworks, languages, etc.)
- Full understanding of Service Oriented Architecture design principles, execution patterns and performance optimization
- Ability to clearly communicate and collaborate well with technical and non-technical partners
- Foundation in design, data structures and algorithms, and strong analytical and debugging skills with customer-facing products experience.
- Channel-specific architecture skills as required by the platform, such as web, mobile, voice or interactive media
- Able to assess and interview team members to identify and develop talent
- Ability to influence technological growth across teams
- Tech Stack
- React via OneApp
- Java via OneData
- Vert.x
- Db2, postgres
- Ab Initio, Spark
- Cucumber, Gatlin, Karate, Jest
- AWS, GCP
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- GitHub Enterprise
- Jenkins
- Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred
- 5+ years of active engineering
- 2+ years leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience
- 3+ years React
- 3+ years Java
- 3+ years database technologies (e.g., Db2, postgres, oracle)
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
- Ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
- Hands on experience with automation testing and documentation (i.e. automated, functional, and performance)
- Ability to learn and adapt in a rapidly changing environment.
- Adaptable to changes in product requirements, organizational structures and business conditions
- Engaged with the broader technology community (e.g. open source, public speaking, technical forums)
Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.
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
- 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
- Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
- Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
- 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
For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.
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We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.
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