Manager-Software Engineering

Job Description

Work Location Options :

Hybrid

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.

We are on the journey to develop a best in class, modern communications, and storage solution for the enterprise, to support the digital first strategy, improve our cost efficiency and ensure better self-services for all our consumers as part of our technology roadmap. With billions servicing communications being sent and stored annually, we are continuing to invest in innovation, modernization and leading-edge technologies is critically important, especially as we move through our platform and product journey.

We are looking for a Manager, Software Engineering to deliver world-class software solutions supporting our platform vision. This includes using leading-edge modern technology stack, fostering engineering culture, innovation using new capabilities, designing, and building new ways to enhance and expose our capabilities via APIs, cultivating continual improvement in system quality, performance, and robust coding frameworks.

Translate user needs into system requirements and solution design, partner Senior Engineer(s) to ensure design meets technology standards and uses appropriate design patterns. Develop software applications to high coding standards, ensure code is testable throughout and meets the resilience of test automation tools. Measure and optimize application code performance and integration of component systems. Support deployment of changes into production. Ensure adherence to CI / CD toolsets.

As Manager, Software Engineering, you will also be a people leader who is skilled and an enthusiastic Engineering leader with an enquiring mind and tons of energy to actively provide people-leadership, promote learning and growth of engineering teams and ultimately build a strong engineering culture and happy productive team members. As Manager, Software Engineering you will have hands on with the design, coding and reviews, taking the lead on strategic outcomes and support solving of complex challenges.

As a people leader for multiple scrum teams, span of control of 6 or more team members, including both colleagues and contractors.

Key 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

Education and Knowledge

Bachelors 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)

Java - Java 11+ experience building enterprise applications with proven design patterns

Spring - Experience / knowledge with the Spring framework, specifically Spring Boot and RESTful APIs

VertX Experience / knowledge with VertX

Databases Experience / knowledge of RMDBMS databases.

NoSQL - Experience / knowledge with NoSQL databases such as Couchbase is an advantage.

React - Experience / knowledge for front-end (UI) development is an advantage.

CI / CD - Build pipelines for continue integration and delivery : Git, Jenkins, etc.

Testing Frameworks - Experience with Testing Frameworks for backend / front-end and backend automation testing

JBPM - Understanding of JBoss BPM to build simple workflow (rules / process) solutions is an advantage.

PaaS - Experience / knowledge of AWS is an advantage.

Work Experience

Software engineering and development experience or a related job with 8+ years experience

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)

Willingness to learn new technologies and exploit them to their optimal potential

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, well consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally :

• 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 .

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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and / or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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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