▷ (07/10/2025) Senior Engineering Manager

At American Express our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation shared 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 How will you make an impact in this role You Lead the Way We ve Got Your Back 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 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 s Global Loyalty and Benefits organization and let s lead the way together Global Loyalty and Benefits Global Loyalty and Benefits powers the Membership Reward points Amex Offers Insurance and Card benefits for 112 million cards in 58 markets worldwide This Position is for Global Loyalty and Benefits Engineering Department About the job We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to help in our transformation journey as we decommission legacy applications and move to our modern platform that is based on event driven architecture and employs cutting edge technologies such as Golang Docker Kafka and Postgres This platform is highly scalable and capable of supporting up to 10 000 TPS Key Responsibilities Understand the Loyalty and Benefits domain and how it powers the AMEX experience for customers Learn and support our legacy applications and modern platforms to develop a deep understanding of all functional workflows Work closely with product owners and or other technology counterparts globally as needed to further our initiatives targeting business growth cost savings platform maintenance and platform modernization Participate in agile development processes including sprint planning stand-ups demos and retrospectives Ability to come up with multiple architectural solutions present pros and cons and influence stakeholders towards a technical solution Be actively involved in low level design coding code reviews and unit and E2E testing in Assist with production deployment and ensure smooth CI CD pipeline process Co-ordinate delivery of the project across global teams Manage risk through all stages of project life cycle Be a role model for engineering excellence within the team driving adoption of CICD and DevOps practices Take ownership and lead initiatives Lead a team of 6-14 engineers Minimum Qualifications Bachelor s degree in computer science computer science engineering or related experience required with at least 10 years of experience in software development Delivered complex projects where complexity is a function of domain knowledge required technical implementation and stakeholders Ability to independently work with product and business to gather requirements architect and implement solutions At least 5 years of people management experience for a team of 6-14 engineers Experience in software development in Go container-based technologies docker Kubernetes GIT Jenkins TDD BDD mocking frameworks CICD gates on security code coverage and code quality Experience with distributed systems micro services architecture REST and messaging services such as Kafka Experience working with relational NoSQL databases Experience working with Comcast Rulio or some type of rules engine Ability to work in a team environment as well as independently Commitment to write clean maintainable code with good documentation practices 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 Support for financial-well-being and retirement Comprehensive medical dental vision life insurance and disability benefits depending on location Flexible working model with hybrid onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need Generous paid parental leave policies depending on your location 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 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