Senior Software Engineer

About the position

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.

Responsibilities

• Manages and leads a team of Software Engineering colleagues, enabling a culture of continuous learning, growth opportunities, and inclusivity for all individual colleagues and teams
• Provides leadership, guidance, and coaching to Software Engineering teams, supporting training and development of best practices
• Recruits colleagues with relevant experience, and develops, rewards, and energizes an effective team
• Supervises the design, development, testing, and deployment of large-scale enterprise applications
• Oversees technical aspects of Software Engineering, including design, prototyping, and coding assignments for assigned applications
• Collaborates with internal teams and technical product managers to deliver platform improvements and enhancements
• Establishes and enforces engineering practices across teams, including code review, build and release processes, and retrospective effectiveness
• Empowers teams to automate scalable application deployments in test and production environments
• Collaborates with leadership to define technical solutions and drive software maturity and best practices
• Collaborates and co-creates effectively with teams in product and the business to align technology initiatives with business objectives

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, and/or comparable experience; advanced degree preferred
• Knowledge of distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, NoSQL, and relational databases
• Knowledge of the core tools used in the planning, analyzing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)
• Software engineering and development experience or a related job
• Expertise in application design, software development, and automated testing
• Experience in distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
• Experience in Agile software development methodologies and practices such as Scrum/Kanban, iterations, user stories
• Experience in automation testing and documentation (i.e. automated, functional, and performance)

Nice-to-haves

• 4+ years of Python, Java, Go
• 2+ years of Orchestrated Workflow Development
• 4+ years of experience with CICD pipelines, GitHub Actions preferred
• Understanding of configuration management tooling such as Puppet, Salt, Ansible, is preferred
• 2+ years of experience with consuming and maintaining relational and NoSQL databases is preferred
• General understanding of database types and concepts strongly preferred

Benefits

• 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