American Express - Senior Engineer Manager

You Lead the Way. We've Got Your Back.

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we're supporting our customers' financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what's possible -and we're proud to back each other every step of the way. When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deliver an exceptional customer experience every day. 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.

You'll shape the world of life, work and play.

The Travel & Lifestyle (TLS) team is one of the core teams at Amex which works on providing the world's best Travel and Lifestyle experience to our cardmembers across the world. We are looking to hire Senior Engineering Managers to lead high performing technology teams within a diverse portfolio

What are we looking for?

Software Engineering:

- 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

- 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 in order 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 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

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred

- 10+ years of active engineering

- 4+ years leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience

- 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

- Ability to learn and adapt in a rapidly changing environment.

- Adaptable to changes in product requirements, organizational structures and business conditions

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.