Senior Engineering Manager - Web Engineering

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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.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives.

Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems.

American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source.

And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development.

Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

You will be part of the Global Web Engineering team whose mission is to be essential in our Customers’ digital lives by providing value, convenience, and delight wherever they are.

Your primary responsibilities will be to lead a team of engineers building awesome digital web products used by tens of millions of American Express Customers worldwide.

You should enjoy solving complex technical problems and have experience creating modern, scalable, customer-facing web applications.

A strong product mindset to influence and drive the product roadmap and excellent delivery are key attributes for this role.

You will work in a fast-paced environment with the stability of working for a Fortune 100 company.

Responsibilities

• Lead and work with a team of highly accomplished engineers to build and deliver a customer-centric roadmap.
• Responsible for building new features and iterating on existing products using the latest software development methodologies and frameworks to ensure scalability and reliability.
• Work with product managers to prioritize features for new products based on customer needs; enable the web product vision for the company and manage a list of requirements based on industry trends and new technologies.
• Mentor and nurture talent and promote a culture of togetherness, partnership, and continuous team improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.
• Responsible for the people management of co-located and remote engineering teams.
• Recruit and hire outstanding and diverse web talent from the industry.
• Influence up / down / across and promote modern software engineering principles.
• Collaborate with product, business, and technology teams to motivate change required to implement product roadmaps and support the team in technical issue resolution.
• Think outside the box and bring external engineering expertise and views. Desire to learn new technologies, ability to enable business capabilities through innovation, and increase efficiency in crafting and delivering new capabilities with our global colleagues.
• Engage in 1-on-1 conversations with team members for mentorship and career development planning.
• Collaborate within and across business units to prioritize, plan, and implement the development schedule for major product releases.

Minimum Qualification

• Experience being a people leader, coaching, mentoring, and guiding highly talented technical teams.
• Proven experience hiring, retaining, and leading high-caliber engineering talent.
• Understanding of web UI technologies and frameworks such as React and Angular.
• Experience building customer-facing products with performance, availability, and high scalability, and bringing in new technologies based on current industry standards.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to cater to a diverse audience : executive collaborator, customer, partner, engineering.
• Experience leading and building software engineering teams designing and building efficient software products in a fast-paced, sophisticated, and dynamic software development environment.

Hands-on experience architecting and building modern REST APIs.

• Experience with Agile, Scrum, or other rapid application development methodologies is required.
• Commitment to drive a culture of accountability and ownership to empower teams and motivate change.
• Experience leading individual contributors and providing career direction, coaching, and building development plans.
• Experience working in a distributed team model and collaborating with remote team members.
• BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other engineering disciplines.

Salary Range : $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

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.

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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